Student numbers were manageable, and the self-contained nature of the University in general meant that, as a sizeable entity, it could co-exist well enough with a smallish town proper.

This is a smallish town, Mr Calder.

When we arrived in Sanjiang, a smallish town in northeast Guangxi, we found that we had missed the last bus to the Chengyang Wind and Rain Bridge.

I don't want to rent a car and would like to go to a smallish town that is easily...

Forces, being a smallish town and by no means a city, the passing of street pleasantries is not quite the folk art it is in villages but people still enjoy passing the time of day with their neighbours.

The police chief's office in a smallish town is rarely impressive.

Being in a smallish town, he knew a little about the persons involved.

There is the struggle to find somewhere to live in a smallish town flooded with students.

Rodney Tucker owned the one and only supermarket in Banfield's High Street, a smallish store compared to the usual chain supermarket, but then Banfield was a smallish town.

This city looked nothing like the smallish town he remembered.