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Example sentences for: metropolis

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Even if the exhibition fails to draw the hoped-for 15 million visitors, it will be responsible for turning hundreds of acres of industrial wasteland into a lovely spot on the Thames linked to the rest of the metropolis by the Underground.
This great metropolis, Québec’s largest city with 3.1 million inhabitants, is built on an island at the confluence of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence rivers.
The dirt, grime, spit, and fouler substances that regularly adhere to one's clothing here make this fine metropolis a veritable fantasia of filth.
The scoring function for minimisation is primarily a combination of the all-atom function, a hydrophobic compactness function, and a bad contacts function [ 40 ] . The primary search technique we used was a Metropolis Monte Carlo (MC) procedure where conformations are accepted or rejected based on the Boltzmann's equation [ 41 ] . Each trajectory was allowed 50,000 iterations, starting with a high temperature such that 99% of the moves were accepted for the first 1000 steps and "cooled" linearly until only 1% of the moves were accepted for the last 100 steps.
It's the only city where the actual city is still the center not just of the metropolis's official high culture but of its everyday culture too.