"capital" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They were a perfectly representative entrance to a sprawling capital of only 450,000 people, which on Sunday was particularly quiet.
- The minefields, marked with danger signs, lay on both sides of the road to Stanley, the islands' tiny capital of 2,000 people.
- This railway junction has grown into a provincial capital of 600,000 people.
- Critics of the troop-increase plan have complained that 17,500 more troops are too few to control a capital of six million people.
- The officers, from the energy security force, were returning from duty guarding pylons that bring power to this capital of seven million people.
- The financial capital of the world, as well as 8 states and 50 million people, lost power for, in some cases, more than a day.
- More than half of Dhaka, a capital of nine million people, is flooded - including its landfills.
- Rebels again cut electricity and water to this capital of five million people today, heightening fears about an imminent attack.
- Port-au-Prince, a sprawling and chaotic capital of nearly two million people, has only one fire station.
- No mad scientist could think up a better machine for creating air pollution than this capital of nearly 20 million people.
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