metropolitan county
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noun
(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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How to use metropolitan county in a sentence
Before his arrival in England it had been generally thought that two Tories would be returned for the metropolitan county.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington MacaulayDublin is the metropolitan county of Ireland, also its chief city.
Romantic Ireland; volume 1/2|M.F and B. McM. MansfieldVery often the number is much greater, and yet this does not contain all the pauper lunatics of the metropolitan county.
The Night Side of London|J. Ewing Ritchie