Examples
Traffic downtown is all backed up.
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We are going downtown to eat pizza.
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The house I bought is pretty far from downtown.
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She rented a flat close the to the city centre.
She rented an apartment close to downtown.
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For example, if I want to get downtown what bus should I take?
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Citizens of higher social status were permitted to live closer to the center.
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"This is the police. Would you mind coming down to the station?" "W-why?" "You can't think it's not a crime to go shooting guns off in the middle of town?!"
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Walking through the crosswalk in Downtown Vancouver, BC, many years ago, a Native Indian woman looked at my face and said, "Don't smile!" I could see on her face how foreign Occidental culture really strained her life.
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