Dumfries and Galloway

American  

noun

1. a region in S Scotland. 2,460 sq. mi. (6,371 sq. km).

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Dumfries and Galloway British  

noun

1. a council area in SW Scotland: created in 1975 from the counties of Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, and Wigtown; became a unitary authority in 1996; chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Dumfries. Pop: 147 210 (2003 est). Area: 6439 sq km (2486 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

He started out as an apprentice in 1987 and has spent a little over 30 years of his career in total at the Dumfries and Galloway plant.

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When news broke that an aircraft had crashed in a small Dumfries and Galloway town, Anne and Ross got the call from their local controller: "You're on standby for Lockerbie."

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Excavations were undertaken in 2020 and 2021 by Guard Archaeology during the construction of the access route to the Twentyshilling Wind Farm near Sanquhar in Dumfries and Galloway.

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At the height of the storm, gusts of 76mph were recorded on South Uist in the Western Isles with similar speeds also felt in Lanarkshire and Dumfries and Galloway.

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At the height of the storm, gusts of 76mph were recorded in South Uist, with similar speeds felt in Lanarkshire and Dumfries and Galloway.

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