Ely

[ee-lee, ee-lahy]

noun

1. Isle of, a former administrative county in E England: now part of Cambridgeshire.

2. a town on this island: medieval cathedral.

3. a male given name.

Ely

/ ˈiːlɪ /

noun

1. a cathedral city in E England, in E Cambridgeshire on the River Ouse. Pop: 13 954 (2001)

2. a former county of E England, part of Cambridgeshire since 1965

Example Sentences

Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, died after the bike they were riding crashed on Snowden Road in the Ely area of the city in May 2023.

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A spokesperson for the office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales, Labour's Emma Wools, said it would "carefully consider the detail of the IOPC's report into Ely".

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Topping & Company, which has branches in Bath, Edinburgh, Ely and St Andrews, said the new store would create 30 jobs and offer 75,000 titles on its shelves.

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"When the stop order came, it meant we had to stop everything. Only some of us have been able to get additional funding so we could continue our work. It's set us back months, probably could even be a year," Prof Ely says.

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"We were developing a vaccine test to see how well that works, and then we would trial it on humans," Abdullah Ely, an Associate Professor at Wits University, tells the BBC in his lab.

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