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
"I think," said I, with the bashful diffidence with which a man lets slip a pun in presence of his superiors, "the metropolitan county may, in that case, be said to have a sad heart."
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Scott, Walter, Sir
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