twenty-six counties

British  

plural noun

1. the counties of the Republic of Ireland

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Example Sentences

Mrs. Jane Stanford, widow of the school’s founder, in 1901 gave it outright $30,000,000—$18,000,000 in gilt edged bonds and securities and $12,000,000 in an aggregate of 100,000 acres of land in twenty-six counties in California.

From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Linthicum, Richard

Texas came up proudly with its twenty-six counties, which it seemed to put in array; but Florida answered that twelve counties proved more than twenty-six in a country six times smaller.

From The Moon-Voyage by Verne, Jules

County matches are also now regularly played in England, twenty-six counties competing in 1907.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

Texas produced its array of twenty-six counties; Florida replied that twelve counties were better than twenty-six in a country only one-sixth part of the size.

From From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Verne, Jules

The whole body found itself committed to acceptance of Home Rule in principle for twenty-six counties.

From John Redmond's Last Years by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius