(n.) One of a breed of hardy cattle originating in the country of Devon, England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen.
Example Sentences:
(1) Postweaning growth and carcass characters of 110 steers from a complete two-breed diallel of the Devon and Hereford breeds were examined under two environments.
(2) Both are alleged to have plied the Devon girl with drugs, raped her and left her unconscious to drown on Anjuna beach, metres from a bar in which the group had spent the evening drinking.
(3) Eastbourne follows with a 100% rise, and Torquay in Devon's is also high on the list, with an 81% rise in bookings.
(4) I have had to move away from my long-term partner because of the lack of jobs, to a large extent caused by cuts to the public sector in Devon, where it constituted 27% of the workforce.
(5) Other stranded schemes include a £9m alleviation scheme for Exeter, Devon, and coastal defences at Folkestone, Kent (£22m) and Lyme Regis, Dorset (£15m).
(6) For services to the Restoration of Salem Chapel, East Budleigh, Devon.
(7) Sadly, circumstances gave only few occasions to confirm this; they were about to move to Devon.
(8) At this stage nobody can be confident that this has happened.” Among the acute service beds at general hospitals set to be cut are 535 in Derbyshire, 400 each in Devon and West Yorkshire and 30% of all beds in hospitals in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
(9) On the basis of these in vitro data the observed defect in the Devon Rex cats can be fully explained.
(10) For services to the community in Drewsteignton, Devon.
(11) Three bacterial isolates, a Pseudomonas sp., a Bacillus sp., and an Arthrobacter sp., commonly isolated from a hummocky sedge-moss meadow at Devon Island, N.W.T., Canada, were selected for further taxonomic characterization and for a study of the effects of temperature and limiting carbon source on growth.
(12) Rain has caused severe flooding in Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire , with 265 flood warnings and 288 alerts in place covering all regions in England and Wales.
(13) Sid Ward, teacher, 38, Kingsbridge, Devon (now living in Herefordshire) ‘Properties are empty, so the community is empty’ Second homes destroy the fabric of the town and spoil the very things that made it attractive to the second home owner in the first place.
(14) Gránia Fine Bridford, Devon • There are two aspects of current nursing conditions which Jeremy Hunt's pronouncements on training reform fail to address.
(15) Luciana Berger, mental health shadow minister, said Devon had spoken out “openly and honestly about the challenges facing children’s mental health under this Tory government.
(16) There's the mother of a guy who runs a little local garage where we live in Devon who fixes our cars, a family business.
(17) At the very top for GCSE results was Colyton grammar school in Devon, where all 117 GCSE pupils got at least five grades C or higher, including English and maths.
(18) Updated at 2.55pm GMT 11.44am GMT Pilot programs Natural England, Defra and local councils are currently managing six pilot programmes for biodiversity offsetting in: Devon Doncaster Essex Greater Norwich Nottinghamshire Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull The EAC was critical of the uptake in the programmes, which started in 2011, saying that the requirement for developers to opt in meant few measurable results had emerged.
(19) Devon and Cornwall Police said a 20-mile stretch of coastline - 10 miles either side of the 18-year-old's home at Newton Ferrers - has been extensively searched as well as inland areas with the help of a range of groups and emergency services.
(20) Tom Spicer and his sister Kate in the film Mission to Lars Photograph: Misison to Lars And on the big screen, documentary Mission to Lars followed a man with a learning disability as he left his Devon care home on a quest to meet his hero, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich.
Somerset
Definition:
(n.) A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immigration enforcement officers have arrested 139 suspected immigration offenders at locations including London, Durham, Manchester, Wales and Somerset.
(2) Yesterday, Harry Patch died peacefully in his bed at his residential home in Wells, Somerset, a man who spent his last years urging his friends and many admirers never to forget the 9.7 million young men who perished during the 1914-18 war.
(3) Video of flooding in Barcombe Mills, East Sussex 12.07pm GMT Lord Smith of the Environment Agency due to speak from Somerset soon.
(4) Matters worsened when on-the-ground surveys, costing almost £1m, discovered up to twice as many badgers in the first cull areas in Gloucestershire and Somerset.
(5) And asked why he had not apologised to residents, he said: I have said to the people here what we did last year, what we’ve been preparing now, the work we’re currently doing, and I think the important thing now is to work out what we can do for the future of Somerset, what can now happen, and that’s what I’m primarily talking about with the local people here.
(6) 37 Castle Street, Somerset, A5 1LN; 01278 732 266; janetphillips-weaving.co.uk East Assington Mill's rural skills courses range from cane-and-rush chair making to silk scarf dyeing– and some more unusual options, too.
(7) Somerset were due to resume their first innings on 87 for three in reply to 400 and took six points from the game; Lancashire collected nine.
(8) At this stage nobody can be confident that this has happened.” Among the acute service beds at general hospitals set to be cut are 535 in Derbyshire, 400 each in Devon and West Yorkshire and 30% of all beds in hospitals in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
(9) Led by the Tories since 2009, Somerset county council has struggled with £80m of cuts to its budget.
(10) Musgrove, which is part of Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, has revealed that it has finished the inquiry and has shared the findings with patients and would talk to healthcare bodies such as the Care Quality Commission about them.
(11) We're back again in the morning to see what happens at Chester-le-Street, which will bring Notts level with Somerset on games played and clarify the County Championship equation for next week.
(12) I think a lot of people in Taunton and Somerset were greatly looking forward to this fixture and a good day's cricket.
(13) David Lund Winscombe, Somerset • You mention four scenarios, but miss out the most obvious and most European one.
(14) Downing Street summoned business and community leaders to a meeting of the Big Society Network at Somerset House to revive Cameron's flagship initiative, which has faced intense criticism from voluntary and local authority leaders in recent weeks.
(15) ITV News was today banned from a press conference by Avon & Somerset police after broadcasting a critical report on the force's investigation into the murder of Joanna Yeates .
(16) With preferential rates for artists and partnerships with the likes of Somerset House and the Royal Court, you’re likely to end up arguing over Brechtian dramaturgy or post-internet art in the lift.
(17) Avon and Somerset police said the case was a "tragedy".
(18) And, just hours before a signing ceremony was due to take place at the site in Somerset, May put off government approval until early autumn.
(19) Filmed in a marquee in the grounds of Harptree Court in Somerset, and making unlikely TV stars out of judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry, Bake Off (as it is known to its fans) is made by the independent production company Love Productions.
(20) The government is to send in the army to help tackle the floods in the Somerset Levels.