Gloucestershire

American  

[glos-ter-sheer, -sher, glaw-ster-] / ˈglɒs tərˌʃɪər, -ʃər, ˈglɔ stər- /

noun

1. a county in SW England. 1,255 sq. mi. (2,640 sq. km). Gloucester.

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Gloucestershire British  

/ -ʃə, ˈɡlɒstəˌʃɪə /

noun

1.  Glos.  a county of SW England, situated around the lower Severn valley: contains the Forest of Dean and the main part of the Cotswold Hills: the geographical and ceremonial county includes the unitary authority of South Gloucestershire (part of Avon county from 1974 to 1996). Administrative centre: Gloucester. Pop (excluding South Gloucestershire): 568 500 (2003 est). Area (excluding South Gloucestershire): 2643 sq km (1020 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

Official figures show children in Gloucestershire, where Sutherland is based, waited 110 days on average for a second contact with Camhs in 2023-24, which is the point when a patient is offered treatment.

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Banksy is believed to have been born in the nearby town of Yate, which was then in Gloucestershire, in the early 1970s.

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In January, a BBC investigation identified 11 of these sites, including one in Gloucestershire that residents said had seen up to 50 vehicles deliver rubbish every day at its peak.

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In the 1980s, there were 65 cases of MenB, including two deaths, in Gloucestershire but those cases were reported over four- and-a-half years not less than a week.

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The previously unseen image, taken from the family's private collection, shows Diana with a two-year-old William in 1984, sitting in a field of full of wildflowers at the family's main home of Highgrove, Gloucestershire.

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