metropolitan county
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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While St. Mary’s is a relatively small, rural jurisdiction, advocates point to Montgomery County as evidence that an effective pretrial program can be scaled up to a large metropolitan county.
From Washington Times • Jun. 3, 2017
The rebuilding, which Tordoff oversaw, was paid for largely with public money; West Yorkshire metropolitan county council gave the club £1.4m even while it was jointly being sued for negligence.
From The Guardian • May 11, 2010
After all, with a population up from 216,000 in 1950 to 1,200,000, Orange is the fastest-growing metropolitan county in the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
The choice was up to Tammany Chief Carmine De Sapio, who. with his fellow Democratic metropolitan county leaders, controls a deciding bloc of delegate votes in the nominating convention next week.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were ladies of great attractiveness, and were destined to become so much valued by the people that their family name is still preserved in our midst, as the name of our metropolitan county.
From School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time by Moore, John W. (John Wheeler)
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