(n.) A circuit or particular portion of a state or kingdom, separated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the administration of justice and public affairs; -- called also a shire. See Shire.
(n.) A count; an earl or lord.
Example Sentences:
(1) Adults and immatures of Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls were collected by flagging vegetation and from lizards during a 3-mo period in the Hualapai Mountain Park, Mohave County, AZ, in 1991.
(2) Voluntary intake and nutritive value of diets selected by goats grazing a shrubland at Marin county, N.L., Mexico were determined.
(3) Patients with femoral neck fractures treated at a department of orthopedic surgery in a university hospital and one retrospective control sample from a department of general surgery in a county hospital.
(4) An investigation into the shooting by the Cuyahoga County sheriff’s office has been completed and handed to the office of McGinty, the county prosecutor.
(5) Essential parameters of hepatic functioning in 84 labourers, whose exposition to benzene is differing in assimilation as well as length of time is discussed.--45 persons from the same county without contact to benzene or hepatotoxic agents served as control-group.
(6) A senior shadow minister, who has not been named by the Telegraph in its exposé of MPs' expenses , was yesterday asked by county councillors not to campaign for next month's local elections.
(7) The Mexican-Americans of Starr County, Texas, classified by sex and birthplace, were studied to determine the extent of genetic variation and contributions from ancestral populations such as Spanish, Amerindian and West African.
(8) In a statement the Los Angeles County department of public health said: "Though legionella bacteria was identified in a water sample taken from the Playboy Mansion, this bacteria has not been determined as the source of the respiratory outbreak.
(9) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
(10) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
(11) Customers won a significant victory in the battle with the banks earlier this month when a mass hearing was averted at Hull county court.
(12) The three counties sampled showed surprisingly little deviation in the percentages of inventories suggesting alcohol production and in the preferences for specific types of drinks.
(13) With an ambulance service staffed by doctors from the anaesthetic and intensive care units of the central hospitals it is possible to provide prehospital treatment in 70% of all severe traffic injuries in the County of Ringkøbing.
(14) Of leukemic children born in areas for which information on past influenza activity was available, the population-based Alameda County Cancer Registry recorded 89 cases during 1960-1969, the California Tumor Registry recorded 653 cases during 1950-1970, and Children's Hospital recorded 575 cases during 1957-1972.
(15) Iowa (10pm ET) Real Clear Politics average: Obama +2.0pt 2008 result: Obama won by 9.4pt 2004 result: Bush won by 0.7pt Swing counties with 50k+ population: Polk (+5.1), Scott (+5.0), Woodbury (-10.0) This state is where the primary season begins, and it likes to keep Americans guessing.
(16) Our object is to deliver the best possible services for people in Herefordshire from the resources available in the county."
(17) Many characteristics of California's counties that correlate with physician-population ratios also correlate with psychiatrist-population ratios, with their changes through time and with rural counties' ability to attract psychiatrists.
(18) Cameras have been set up by the zoo to track his movements and footpaths in the area closed by the county council.
(19) Heights, weights and head circumferences were obtained from two groups of primary school children: 1016 children from throughout Oxfordshire, a rural county with few areas of deprivation, and 219 children from an economically deprived part of the city of Newcastle on Tyne.
(20) Two standardized respiratory questionnaires were administered to 946 white male participants in a long-term study of respiratory symptoms in Washington County, Md.
Northumbrian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Northumberland in England.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Northumberland.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Hong-Kong-based businessman's UK Water group will take over Northumbrian, which owns and runs water services in the south of the country through subsidiary Essex and Suffolk Water as well as providing water in its north-east base.
(2) Chairman of Northumbrian, Sir Derek Wanless, said: "The directors believe that, whilst Northumbrian would have a strong future as an independent company, the consortium's offer to Northumbrian shareholders fairly values the current and future prospects of the company.
(3) The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, which owns 26.8% of Northumbrian, is to vote in favour of the takeover and has ruled itself out of making a counter-offer.
(4) Group managing director of CKI, H L Kam, said: "We attach great importance to the skills and experience of the existing management and employees of Northumbrian and believe they will be an important factor in the continuing success of the Northumbrian group."
(5) Enter the rather improbable figure of Peter Millican, a shy Northumbrian property developer with Hockneyesque horn-rimmed spectacles and a burning ambition to build and run his own London concert hall.
(6) Asian tycoon Li Ka-Shing looked to have won the battle for Northumbrian Water on Tuesday, after the board of the utility recommended his £2.4bn offer .
(7) Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong billionaire, has agreed terms to buy Northumbrian Water at an all-time high for the share price.
(8) The octogenarian Hong Kong tycoon’s UK portfolio includes the health and beauty chain Superdrug and Northumbrian Water.
(9) His Cheung Kong Group also owns Northumbrian Water, Wales and West Utilities and has a stake in Southern Water.
(10) Including Northumbrian's debt, the deal is worth £4.7bn.
(11) The directors also welcome the statements that the consortium has made with respect to Northumbrian's management and employees, its location of business and its support for the communities it serves."
(12) Northumbrian listed in 2003, and the deal is the biggest takeover of a listed company in the UK this year.
(13) Shareholders in Northumbrian, a FTSE 250 stock, will get 465p a share, and will also be entitled to receive the final dividend of 9.57p a share.
(14) The books tell the story of the bloody battles between the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons led by King Alfred, through fictional character Uhtred, a Northumbrian boy, heir to an earldom, who is captured and raised by the invaders.
(15) Northumbrian cereal grower Colin McGregor, who produces golden extra virgin rapeseed oil under the Olifeira brand, sells it at £6 for a 500ml bottle - the same sort of price tag you might expect on a classy bottle of Tuscan extra virgin olive oil.
(16) Alistair Baker, a spokesman for Northumbrian Water, said the ferocity of some storms was "well in excess of the design capabilities" of their defence schemes, completed last year at a cost of about £2.5m.
(17) Northumbrian shares rose 4.4% this morning to reach 469p, while shares in CKI, listed in Hong Kong, rose 1.5% to an all-time high.
(18) In Tony Parker 's Red Hill , a prose study of a pseudonymous Northumbrian pit village, the tone was of almost unbearable bleakness: a community visited and vitiated by the inscrutable workings of an alien destiny ("I don't see what I'm ever going to do with my life").
(19) Mr Blair had on that occasion eaten celeriac and Northumbrian smoked cheese followed by a fillet of Cowell Peninsula salmon.
(20) The takeover of Northumbrian Water for a proposed £2.4bn shows that, actually, well-run water firms can still make reliable returns – and, what is more, can expect to do so for years to come.