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Hundreds of homes and two-story buildings clustered side by side along the quays, jetties, and beaches, while the central portion of the sprawling connurbation featured a walled inner city filled with structures six and even seven floors high.

The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

It now has 26 outlets in Malaysia including 19 in the Klang Valley (that's the connurbation created by Kuala Lumpur, Petaling Jaya and surrounding areas).

A Quick Guide to Bookshop Chains Sharon Bakar 2006

All along Highway 99, the superhighway that runs down the eastern side of the Valley, you can see that if nothing changes, there will be a continuous connurbation from Fresno to Modesto within the next 10 years.

Parker and Fresno Airport « Climate Audit 2007

The Modesto connurbation already sprawls east and west a good distance, from the foothills West of Yosemite to the entrance to Altamont Pass.

Parker and Fresno Airport « Climate Audit 2007

What is this piece trying to tell us? that people who live in economically poor rural areas, which don't have access to the services available in a large connurbation, have different problems from their urban cousins?

Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk 2010

Also, the many people unemployed in Greater Manchester or any other connurbation may not necessarily have the right skills for the particular project. semi literate simian (16/05/2010 at 12: 27)

Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed 2010

As it happens, we are nowhere near the connurbation you selected. "

Jed the Dead Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997