metropolitan county

British  

noun

1. (in England) any of the six conurbations established as administrative units in the new local government system in 1974; the metropolitan county councils were abolished in 1986

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Example Sentences

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

Before his arrival in England it had been generally thought that two Tories would be returned for the metropolitan county.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron