A: I was raised in semi-rural suburban New Jersey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guns in America - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

I see both extremes here in semi-rural North Georgia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regarding the T4G booklist: Does the Bible imply a particular intellectual bent for pastors? - 22 Words] Reference

I guess you would describe this as a semi-rural area.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2008] Reference

You can't watch the NFL in semi-rural southern France.    From Wordnik.com.  [TV Anywhere: Structural Problems Will Doom It to Failure - Jim Louderback - MediaBizBloggers] Reference

I was brought up in a semi-rural area of Massachusetts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Day By Day By Amp] Reference

But hubby HATED it, so we moved to a semi-rural suburb.    From Wordnik.com.  [» Why I Love the Suburbs Strocel.com] Reference

A poor, semi-rural, Southern cousin but a cousin nonetheless.    From Wordnik.com.  [> bad = good] Reference

I grew up in semi-rural Kentucky where the name is not common.    From Wordnik.com.  [This is real life] Reference

There is none in the small, semi-rural town in which we now live.    From Wordnik.com.  [What I miss about Chicago... the short list] Reference

That's something that's far off in poor and semi-rural communities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Salter and Doris Cochran, April 12, 1997. Interview R-0014. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

It got in the way of women in sales, who travel in semi-rural areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Potential Of Women In Emerging Markets] Reference

Rural and semi-rural areas as near as possible to an aluminium factory.    From Wordnik.com.  [4. Innovative technologies related to recycling of materials] Reference

(Hurwitz and Schlossberg are natives of semi-rural Randolph, New Jersey.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Christine A. Scheller: Leaving the Circus for the Jersey Shore and Finding a More Nourishing Faith] Reference

It stood as an oasis of wildlife in the middle of a semi-rural neighborhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Circle: How Our Writing Changes Us] Reference

My brother had been released again, some halfway house in semi-rural Missouri.    From Wordnik.com.  [dragonwench Diary Entry] Reference

Significant differences also existed between urban, semi-rural and rural areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Sometimes even highly productive land was being used for unplanned, semi-rural townships.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Nowhere did I encounter semi-rural Wisconsinites envisaging the next 9/11 in their backyard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs That Democrats Are Moving Beyond 9/11 - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Just try to imagine the silence of life in a rural or semi-rural setting of the 19th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference

The love of my life and I were driving through a semi-rural area, looking for our destination.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Someone's knocking at the door. Somebody's ringing the bell. Do me a favor. Open the door. Let 'em in.] Reference

This is the semi-rural northern part of the State, north of Sacramento, east of the coast range.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leonce Gaiter: Hoping Crisis Spawns America 2.0] Reference

I actually frequent a semi-rural Texas beer dive populated with the types alluded to in the post.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Bush As Crank] Reference

"We are seeing good demand from construction and auto and in semi-rural areas," Mr. Roongta said.    From Wordnik.com.  [SAIL, Tata Steel Expect India Steel Demand to Rise] Reference

I truly enjoy your invitation a la francais into the daily aspects of your life in semi-rural France.    From Wordnik.com.  [livre d'or - French Word-A-Day] Reference

They had objected to a Laotian woman and her mixed-race kids owning a business in the semi-rural area.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sum of all Fears]

Wife Karen and I are retiring this fall and plan to rent a place in semi-rural France for some months.    From Wordnik.com.  [livre d'or - French Word-A-Day] Reference

A few hours on the multiple listing service looking at semi-rural properties near water had us salivating.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Blog Needs an Enema | Her Bad Mother] Reference

In at least one way it was huge; McRory Creek Rd. was semi-rural, while Donelson was definitely sub-urban.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference

This excludes areas bordering this hilly, semi-rural township where at least six people were killed last week.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

This semi-rural county has 300-plus lakes and has added more than 3,000 people in five years, reaching 60,000.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Michigan pulling itself out of slump] Reference

Dave has put signs up in semi-rural areas around town hoping someone may have an anvil lying around somewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [An aviator's salute to a fallen bird of a feather] Reference

All I can say is, if Shaidle doesn't have firearms she is already living in the semi-rural prairies isn't she?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychos] Reference

She leaves an unchallenging, semi-rural New Hampshire town for the formal, eccentric, ancient city of Cambridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-03] Reference

Since the pasture borders a state highway and is in a semi-rural area, they restricted the hunt to archery equipment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington Closes Season After Elk Hunt Turns Ugly] Reference

The area was residential and semi-rural -- small houses interspersed with vacant lots and blocks of undeveloped ranchland.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Dark Places]

(One semi-rural area announced that each person getting on the buses could bring one pet, a dog or cat, no roosters, no pigs).    From Wordnik.com.  [Waiting for the Bus in New Orleans] Reference

I do have a local place with a decent selection of organic foods for a small semi-rural area but the freshness is sometimes questionable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shopping] Reference