1. Giorgio Armani was born in Piacenza, a provincial town in northern Italy which was blitzed in the war. (BNC)
2. The Musée Bonn at is an art gallery and an exceedingly good one for a provincial town. (BNC)
3. At the beginning of the nineteenth century no provincial town had more than 100,000 inhabitants, though London was a colossus with a population of 865,000. (BNC)