(1) Many leave banking after three to five years, not because they are 'worn out', but because now they have financial security to start their own business or go on to advocate for a cause they are passionate about or buy a small cottage in the West Country for the rest of their lives."
(2) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
(3) Bargain of the week Charming but teeny-tiny one-bedroom period cottage, £55,000, with williamsonandhenry.com .
(4) After hauling the food back to the cottage, they drew up a rota for the cooking, with some preparing breakfast for the group, and others sharing the duties for lunch and dinner.
(5) We used to watch River Cottage on the telly and thought: “Wow, where’s that?
(6) On 23 July, having completed his final corrections, Grant died in his summer cottage on the slopes of Mount McGregor, in New York state.
(7) The ease of deception has given birth to a brand new cottage industry.
(8) Pictures of the rebuilding of cottages would be beamed directly to "the government building, to me at home and to the website of the government", he said, adding: "Any citizen will be able to watch in real time what is happening."
(9) At the end of your journey is the Idwal Cottage youth hostel, and Cwm Idwal nature reserve.
(10) • €165 a night, i-escape.com La Mare Chappey, Manche, Normandy Just 20 miles from the ferry port at Cherbourg, this collection of cottages in the grounds of a 16th-century manor house is perfect for a hassle-free family holiday.
(11) At the time of purchase Henley Concierge was registered to a cottage on Borodin's £120m country estate near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
(12) The Pynes now live in Wakefield, in a cottage packed with photos of Morrissey and a dedicated music room stuffed with CDs and vinyl.
(13) Those that have genuine integrity are now, actually, driving a massive cottage industry around the world, which is every day reducing CO2 emissions".
(14) Ankle ligament damage has already denied Stockdale his first involvement with the national side – the Fulham goalkeeper fears he could be absent for up to two months having only just broken into the first team at Craven Cottage – and allowed Carson a return to the fold.
(15) This result was confirmed by radioimmunoassay of dry curd cottage cheese and whey.
(16) In the summer, just after his second birthday in early July, the family booked a holiday cottage in Orkney.
(17) The simultaneous ingestion of glucose with cottage cheese or egg white protein decreased the glucose area response to glucose by 11% and 20%, respectively.
(18) Principal component factor analyses, carried out separately on the youths' COPES-School and the youths' COPES-Cottage, yielded two orthogonal but similar factors in each environment.
(19) Ustinov was born in Swiss Cottage, London, an almost perfectly spherical 12lb baby and only child, descended as he later said "from generations of rotund men - it was the 214th prize in the lottery of life".
(20) Who else would have decided to leave the relative cosiness of Ditchling Village for Hopkins Crank, an unreconstructed Georgian squatter's cottage and outbuildings on Ditchling Common?
Villa
Definition:
(n.) A country seat; a country or suburban residence of some pretensions to elegance.
Example Sentences:
(1) We negotiated with Villa, when he was one of the world's best.
(2) According to the striker in question, the Villa manager received more than he deserved.
(3) Aston Villa Football Club has parted company this evening with manager Paul Lambert ,” it read.
(4) Hull City clambered out of the relegation zone and consigned Paul Lambert to a half-century of Premier League defeats as Aston Villa manager in the process.
(5) Nobody said anything to me.” The victory was Villa’s second over Albion in five days.
(6) Two more wins against the claret and blues of West Ham and Aston Villa would take Tottenham to 72 points, equalling their Premier League record haul set last season.
(7) That may sound familiar to Tottenham fans, who grew tired with their team’s aimless, sideways passing under André Villas-Boas.
(8) The game was at Villa Park and I remember Man United on the day kicked us.
(9) His opposite number, Roy Carroll, saved at the feet of Sinclair, the County striker Izale McLeod drove inches wide, but in the 24th minute Villa were level, Jack Grealish dancing through a series of attempted tackles before putting the ball on a plate inside the penalty area for the hugely promising Adama Traoré to thump past Carroll.
(10) Others wrecked the villa interior, poured fuel on the floor and set it alight.
(11) Keane, now assistant manager at Aston Villa and with the Republic of Ireland, is heavily critical of Ferguson for pursuing the legal case and says he went to see the United manager to tell him he was taking on the wrong men and that it would have serious repercussions for the club.
(12) There will be no further comment from the club at this stage.” The defeat at the KC Stadium – a fifth in a row in the league – meant Villa sank into the bottom three for the first time this season, having briefly topped the table in August after winning three of their opening four matches.
(13) If the deal is completed without a hitch the winger will join his team-mates in Hong Kong, where André Villas-Boas's side will compete in the Asia Trophy.
(14) Moreover, with the long-term injury casualty Younès Kaboul still to feature in pre-season, Jan Vertonghen out with ankle damage and William Gallas released, Villas-Boas now has only one fit, senior centre-half in Michael Dawson.
(15) Overall I thought we deserved the win.” It is not difficult to understand why Villa have failed to break opponents down recently.
(16) Those who bought "luxury' villas for €1m in the good times would be lucky to get a third for them now – if, that is, they could ever find a buyer happy to tolerate living on an unfinished complex.
(17) Damien Comolli, the club's director of football strategy, has confirmed Liverpool are interested in Luis Suárez of Ajax and Aston Villa's Ashley Young, although both deals are fraught with difficulty in this transfer window.
(18) Applauded off at half-time, Villa carried on where they left off and struck twice in the first 15 minutes of the second half.
(19) Here's Messi playing in Adriano, but his cross evades Villa in the middle.
(20) When, in stoppage time, the 33-year-old striker swept a first-time shot home any lingering Villa optimism was extinguished.