"A lot of people are uncomfortable with the whole term 'precinct captain.' "

At another moment, when the court stenographer read back some testimony, Mr. Dinkins put his index finger in the air, leaned forward, and politely corrected her in precise tones: "Where you have written, 'precinct forces,' that's 'increasing forces' each night."

"The decision to show EastEnders four nights a week, followed by Holby City has left the corporation open to accusations that the BBC1 schedule has been cleared for a diet of 'precinct pulp'," reported The Guardian in 2003.

We worked out of the same precinct for a few months a while back.

In that private precinct the city outside seems a world away.

She told her son that the precinct had been looking for him.

They moved forward into the precinct and looked about them.

This was going to make a great story at the precinct.

The name of the precinct has gone through three changes.

He was not outside in the main room of the precinct.

The next several days are going to be very difficult in this precinct.

It might help if you took a little time off from the precinct.

Having just passed the precinct, I thought nothing of a police car behind me.

But life in the precinct has changed, and many say it is for the better.

A new police precinct was also added in the area.

"I had gone out to find the precinct, to talk to the police."

They took him to a hospital in the precinct where I was.

She asked the father to take the baby to a precinct or hospital, which he did, the police said.

"We're going to try to find all the people involved, whether they're still at the precinct or they've left."

They were trying to answer what is always the question of the moment in these precincts.

By then, word of an investigation into the precinct was out.

He says the precinct should have been covered over years ago.

He said the new precinct would help bring the police closer to the community.

Of the 293 officers in the precinct, 33 are women, according to the department.

The killing was one of three reported in the precinct last year.

It led all precincts in the city last year with 83.

Some of the other guys from Central and the precincts.

If so, the agency should have reported it to the precinct.

The main street on the south side of the railway became a quiet local shopping strip.

This area today is a big shopping strip that covers many blocks.

Santa Monica has three shopping strips, each with its own character.

There is no downtown center, but the village has a small shopping strip along Route 14.

Store owners said the shopping strip has had few robberies.

They do not wish to see the avenues turned into suburban shopping strips.

As of 2008, there are three shopping strips in Bell Park.

Must we trade it in for a shopping strip of chain retail outlets?

Here, in a shopping strip of a town bordering a freeway, it is being used to make people go away.

The neighborhood also needs a more diversified retail base for its shopping strips.

The nearest shopping strip is about a mile away.

She lived above the florist shop at the western end of the main shopping strip.

Pure pandemonium, this is the old city's famed shopping strip.

Gas stations and shopping strips line Route 35 above.

Another shopping strip is situated at the end of Bell Street.

Jetty Road is the main shopping strip in the suburb, and runs down the middle.

A small retail shopping strip is found on Augusta Road.

She said zoning rules required retailers on the first floor, to avoid having a break in the shopping strips to the north and south.

The tony mile-long shopping strip does not have a vacant store.

University Boulevard, the major suburban shopping strip, skirts the area to the northeast.

There are a number of corner shops and small shopping strips dotted about the residential area.

Mystic is in a small shopping strip just south of Green Lane.

Lonely Planet has a list of London's top shopping strips.

After a light refuel, we find that the shopping strip is a mere stroll away.

It was in a shopping strip, which was all closed down at this hour except for the bar.