| Both the core city and the surrounding metropolitan area lost population in the 2000 census. |
| Water restrictions were imposed on Saturday in the metropolitan area and in towns and properties fed by the Goldfields pipeline. |
| South of Crete are farms and farmers, to the north lies the metropolitan area in all its skyscraping grandeur. |
| Every single square centimeter of the metropolitan area contains some potential added-value, waiting to be actualized. |
| Cook and Barrett play in the New York metropolitan area, which magnifies the media attention. |
| But yesterday, in a stroke, a perhaps equivalent population was subtracted from the city and the metropolitan area. |
