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Surrey


Definition:

  • (n.) A four-wheeled pleasure carriage, (commonly two-seated) somewhat like a phaeton, but having a straight bottom.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is no doubt about it that there are authorities that have a greater need for public health money than ourselves, but Surrey still has issues and worries about certain social factors within public health," he said.
  • (2) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
  • (3) 7.13pm BST The starting XIs England: Hart (Oxford University), Walker (Barnes), Cahill (Harrow Chequers), Jagielka (Cambridge University), Baines (1st Surrey Rifles), Wilshere (Old Harrovians), Gerrard (Wanderers), Walcott (Swifts), Cleverley (Old Carthusians), Welbeck (Royal Engineers), Rooney (Old Etonians).
  • (4) Britain is still sending regular reinforcements across the Atlantic, from the new Spider-Man signing ( Tom Holland from Surrey ), to the actors who have recently snatched real-life national archetypes like Abraham Lincoln ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo ) from the grasp of American stars.
  • (5) A patient at the Wallington Family Practice in Surrey wrote: "Getting an appointment is like trying to pan for gold.
  • (6) Operated by the North Atlantic Fishing Company (NAFC), based in Caterham, Surrey, it is one of 34 giant freezer vessels that regularly work the west African coast as part of the Pelagic Freezer Association (PFA) , which represents nine European trawler owners.
  • (7) Surrey’s fast-growing population, overflowing out of London, needs 13,000 new school places.
  • (8) Immediately after the verdicts two Surrey-based charities, Shooting Star Chase and the Woking & Sam Beare Hospices, said that Clifford would no longer be their patron.
  • (9) (Surrey) Commander (CBE) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Margaret Aspinall.
  • (10) Prof Jim Al-Khalili of the University of Surrey: Very exciting – this year’s Nobel Prize recognises some of the most incredible experimental tests of the weirder aspects of quantum mechanics.
  • (11) courses in clinical biochemistry run at the University of Surrey over the past 7 years is given.
  • (12) It will also have to syndicate an afternoon programme to surrounding BBC local stations including BBC Radio Kent, BBC Essex and BBC Sussex and Surrey.
  • (13) The Conservative-led Surrey county council plans to ignore the government's call.
  • (14) Dr Wilson will be giving an eve-of-Armistice-Day talk, Monday November 10, 7.30 pm on Siegfried Sassoon at the Old Town Hall, Richmond, Surrey.
  • (15) David Cameron and Nick Clegg, together with Andrew Lansley, started listening at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey on Wednesday.
  • (16) It was in 1963, when he was working as a carpenter in Redhill, Surrey, and short of money after the birth of his second son, that he decided to call Bruce Reynolds, whom he had first met in prison, to ask if he could borrow some money.
  • (17) The NHS primary care trust (PCT) in Knowsley in Merseyside would have lost £89.8m of its £309.7m budget if the age-based system had been in place in the 2011-12 financial year, whereas Surrey PCT would have gained £350 per person, according to a study of the plan published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) .
  • (18) Surrey police have apologised to the Dowlers, and to Cowles, now 21, for missed opportunities early on in the police investigation which might have led to Bellfield being caught sooner.
  • (19) Jim Docking, Betchworth, Surrey Any answers Why is it a "bonfire", rather than plain "fire"?
  • (20) The review of rape investigations by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and the Crown Prosecution Service follows high-profile cases such as the "Night Stalker", Delroy Grant, who raped and assaulted elderly victims over a 17-year period in London, Kent and Surrey.

Survey


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook; as, to stand on a hill, and survey the surrounding country.
  • (v. t.) To view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine.
  • (v. t.) To examine with reference to condition, situation, value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of; as, to survey a building in order to determine its value and exposure to loss by fire.
  • (v. t.) To determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by means of linear and angular measurments, and the application of the principles of geometry and trigonometry; as, to survey land or a coast.
  • (v. t.) To examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the rent and value of the same.
  • (n.) The act of surveying; a general view, as from above.
  • (n.) A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of all the parts or particulars of a thing, with a design to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality; as, a survey of the stores of a ship; a survey of roads and bridges; a survey of buildings.
  • (n.) The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of, as any part of the earth's surface, whether land or water; also, a measured plan and description of any portion of country, or of a road or line through it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
  • (2) The 1989 results were compared with those of a similar survey performed in 1986.
  • (3) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
  • (4) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
  • (5) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
  • (6) They also note surveys that show British voters becoming more Eurosceptic, not less.
  • (7) Three types of survey procedure were adopted and blood samples were taken for examination.
  • (8) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
  • (9) The ratios in both groups were also compared with the ratios of a large group of normal subjects evaluated in a population survey.
  • (10) Responses to a monthly survey of 450-500 surveyors (usually 250-300 reply).
  • (11) This survey reviews three-dimensional (3D) medical imaging machines and 3D medical imaging operations.
  • (12) The last 10 years have seen increasing use of telephone surveys in public health research.
  • (13) A one point dilution enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) procedure suitable for determining immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody levels to Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) in community seroepidemiological surveys is described.
  • (14) This paper reports, principally, the caries results of the first three surveys of 5, 12 and 5-year-olds undertaken at the end of 1987, 1988 and 1989, respectively.
  • (15) This paper presents findings from a survey on knowledge of and attitudes and practices towards AIDS among currently married Zimbabwean men conducted between April and June 1988.
  • (16) The typology developed in two previous surveys of illicit heroin products is applicable to many of the samples studied in this work, although significant changes have occurred in the chemical profile of illicit heroin products from certain geographical regions.
  • (17) Fifteen patients of acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) were detected out of 2500 persons of Maheshwari community surveyed.
  • (18) The first part of this survey which dealt with equipment for the anterior segment was published in a previous issue of this journal.
  • (19) We used results from the 1986 National Mortality Follow-back Survey to estimate proportions of elderly decedents who were "fully functional" or "severely restricted" in the last year of life.
  • (20) This week MediaGuardian 25, our survey of Britain's most important media companies, covering TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, music and digital, looks at BSkyB.

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