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Je n'aime pas les grandes **villes**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and jeo · checked, community translation · [\#275861](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/275861) [\#1049458](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1049458)) - One immediately perceived three long parallel streets, unbroken, undisturbed, traversing, almost in a straight line, all three **cities**, from one end to the other; from North to South, perpendicularly, to the Seine, which bound them together, mingled them, infused them in each other, poured and transfused the people incessantly, from one to the other, and made one out of the three. On voyait tout de suite deux longues rues parallèles sans rupture, sans perturbation, presque en ligne droite, qui traversaient à la fois les trois **villes** d'un bout à l'autre, du midi au nord, perpendiculairement à la Seine, les liaient, les mêlaient, infusaient, versaient, transvasaient sans relâche le peuple de l'une dans les murs de l'autre, et des trois n'en faisaient qu'une. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1849) - Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built **cities** for defense in Judah. Roboam demeura à Jérusalem, et il bâtit des **villes** fortes en Juda. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 11:5) - How do the **cities** reflect it? Comment les **villes** peuvent-elles refléter cette valeur? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 800354) - Speed limit restriction inside **cities**. Limitation de vitesse à l'intérieur des **villes**. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2338996) ## grandes Used about 59 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 42 · legal and administrative ≈ 18). - Large quantities of polonium, a highly radioactive substance from the Russian nuclear **cities**, are misappropriated, transported all over Europe, and no one knows how it can have happened. De **grandes** quantités de cette substance hautement radioactive sont détournées des complexes nucléaires russes, transportées partout en Europe, et nul ne sait comment cela a pu se faire. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 898440) - The monitoring system should include at least wastewaters from large **cities** with over 150000 inhabitants, preferably with a minimum sampling frequency of two samples per week. Il devrait s’appliquer au moins aux eaux usées des **grandes** agglomérations de plus de 150000 habitants et prévoir, de préférence, une fréquence minimale d’échantillonnage de deux échantillons par semaine. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 5349862) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Half of the world’s population lives in **cities**. La moitié de la population mondiale vit en ville. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3450517](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3450517) [\#3454095](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3454095)) - Soon afterwards, he went about through **cities** and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of God’s Kingdom. With him were the twelve, Ensuite, Jésus allait de ville en ville et de village en village, prêchant et annonçant la bonne nouvelle du royaume de Dieu. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 8:1) - In populous **cities**, especially in capitals, there existed no single, central, regulating power. Dans les cités populeuses, dans les capitales surtout, pas de pouvoir central, un, régulateur. 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