(n.) A portion of Great Britain originally under the supervision of an earl; a territorial division, usually identical with a county, but sometimes limited to a smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Richmondshire, Hallamshire.
(n.) A division of a State, embracing several contiguous townships; a county.
Example Sentences:
(1) At stake is voting for a third of the council seats in each of the 36 English metropolitan districts; a third of seats in 16 unitary authorities (plus two, Hartlepool and Swindon where all seats are voting, due to boundary changes); and various proportions of the seats in 74 shire districts (63 by thirds, seven for half the seats, and four all-out).
(2) Approximately 1,056 dwellings were located in the Oberon Shire by the interviewers; household interviews were obtained from 789 of them.
(3) Shire, which is itself thought to be a target for acquisition , paid $4.2bn last year to acquire rare diseases specialist ViroPharma and its lucrative pipeline of products.
(4) Ørnskov, who has been running Shire since May 2013, set out a plea to remain independent last month even as he admitted that he could not close the door on bids.
(5) The suicide rate of 15-19-year-old males has shown a modest increase in Sydney and no change in Newcastle or Wollongong, but the rate for 15-19-year-old males in rural cities has more than doubled, from 5.1 to 12.5 (F = 7.7, P less than 0.003), while in rural municipalities and shires, the rate has increased more than fivefold, from 3.9 to 20.7 (F = 9.3, P less than 0.001).
(6) Emotionally in the community it’s very divided”, says Andrew Hope, the mayor of Liverpool Plains Shire Council.
(7) A Guardian analysis has found: A Luxembourg unit of Shire, the FTSE-100 drug firm behind attention deficit pill Adderall, received more than $1.9bn in interest income from other group companies in the last five years, paying corporation tax of less than $2m over four of the years despite minimal overheads.
(8) It’ll be really challenging having four students because I’m used to having just one on a standard practice placement,” says Shires, who is currently a social worker on the local authority’s psychosis early intervention team.
(9) Away from Luxembourg, more than two-thirds of Shire’s $5bn in annual revenues came from the sale of prescription drugs in the US and Canada last year.
(10) AbbVie is keen to expand its medicine base but could also benefit from Shire by moving its tax base to Britain.
(11) FOLLOW MY LEADER: THE BIG SPEECHES Cameron will need to hit the Tory sweet spot if he is to send everyone home happy – and that means avoiding incendiary issues in the shires, such as gay marriage and the green agenda.
(12) Both companies have operations in Britain, but Shire's UK base is more modest than AstraZeneca's.
(13) Shire expects to make $150m of cost savings by 2015 as it reorganises the businesses.
(14) The subsequent collapse of AbbVie’s planned £34bn takeover of the FTSE 100 firm Shire – the biggest to be scuttled by the White House’s clampdown on inversions – showed that the “tax inversion risk, quite frankly, has become a reality”, he said.
(15) The rally drew heavy resistance from community groups in the Sutherland shire.
(16) Victoria Shires, 21, studying English and drama at the University of Birmingham "I wish I'd known what a class shock university would be, so I could have prepared more.
(17) Susan Kilsby, Shire's chairman, said: "Shire has a long track record of delivering for shareholders and addressing unmet patient needs ... We believe that Shire has a strong independent future."
(18) The UK parliament’s public accounts committee this week summoned PwC to give evidence alongside its FTSE 100 tax client Shire, the drugs firm which moved tax domicile to Ireland six years ago for tax reasons.
(19) It is also taking a closer look at Shire's drug pipeline in light of its forecast that it can double revenues to $10bn by 2020.
(20) Dogs laze in the stifling afternoon heat of the Shire Valley.
Suburban
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city.
(n.) One who dwells in the suburbs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prevalence of Bifidobacterium is lower in a newly constructed suburban hospital.
(2) To examine the relationship between stress and upper respiratory tract infection, 235 adults aged 14-57 years, from 94 families affiliated with three suburban family physicians in Adelaide, South Australia, participated in a six-month prospective study.
(3) It somewhat condescendingly divides the population into 15 groups – among them, Terraced Melting Pot (“Lower-income workers, mostly young, living in tightly packed inner-urban terraces”), and Suburban Mind-sets (“Maturing families on mid-range incomes living a moderate lifestyle in suburban semis”).
(4) "We've put ourselves in this suburban existence, we've tried to change from within and, in the process, we've sort of lost what made us gay to begin with.
(5) It is a problem mostly along roads in urban or suburban areas.
(6) Grayling asks a Labour householder on one suburban doorstep. "
(7) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
(8) Two hundred and four subjects, 22-35 years old, were selected from a suburban part of Khartoum.
(9) We studied 85 suburban paramedics for Hepatitis B serologic markers.
(10) It’s a cheap shot, but for Latham, politics has always been about his western Sydney roots and his fury with leftists “enjoying the luxury of high incomes and cosmopolitan interests” while dismissing suburban Australians as sexist, racist and homophobic.
(11) There are no frame-gobbling images, no torrents of blood flowing down the streets of suburban Australia.
(12) Photograph: Gabrielle Lurie for the Guardian O n the evening of 21 March 2014, Evan Snow, a thirtysomething “user experience design professional”, according to his LinkedIn profile, who had moved to the neighbourhood about six months earlier (and who has since departed for a more suburban environment), took his young Siberian husky for a walk on Bernal Hill.
(13) Around 50 suburban Chicago police departments and sheriff’s offices assisted, racking up more than $300,000 in overtime and other costs, according to an analysis that the Daily Herald newspaper published in early October.
(14) Let me tell you that waiting at a suburban station in Sydney for 45 minutes for the next train is far more aggravating than moving swiftly through a tunnel towards your destination, even if it is crowded for 20 minutes until you get past Bank.
(15) 95% were Caucasian, which approximates the racial balance of this suburban, midwestern population.
(16) And that’s the thing about substance abuse – it doesn’t discriminate.” Authorities report 74 heroin overdoses in three days in Chicago Read more “It touches everybody, from celebrities to college students to soccer moms to inner-city kids – white, black, Hispanic, young, old, rich, poor, urban, suburban, men and women.” Among the Obama administration’s proposals were to improve training among prescribers for opiate painkillers and to expand access to medication-assisted treatment.
(17) Currently, the US contains around 1,500 of the expansive “malls” of suburban consumer lore.
(18) Rising suburban poverty The report found that the number of jobs in suburbs has stagnated over the past decade, more people are claiming jobseeker’s allowance and pension credit, and that poverty has subsequently become more concentrated in many suburban areas.
(19) In order to obtain much more generalized characteristics of the primary care, clinics located in the city, suburban district and remote places in the mountains were studied.
(20) And the marvellously named Victor Gauntlett, vintage-car driver and pilot, looks gloriously suburban haut-bourgeois, with his study full of The Miracle of Speed symbols in pictures and models, while the room's decoration and furnishings are all Home Counties 1919 in sympathies.