"county" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Through consensus, it came to the conclusion that a metropolitan county was the best solution.
- Then, in 1986 the Thatcher government abolished the metropolitan counties.
- Second, a review of local government outside the metropolitan counties was announced in 1989.
- The plan set out objectives for the forthcoming metropolitan county.
- Similar residuary bodies were set up for the metropolitan counties.
- Since 1974, it has been part of the West Midlands metropolitan county.
- There are six metropolitan counties, which each cover large urban areas, typically with populations of 1.2 to 2.8 million.
- The metropolitan counties were first created with a two-tier structure of local government.
- From 1841 to 1911 the national increase was twenty million, over half of which took place in the metropolitan counties.
- However, the metropolitan county continues to exist in law and as a geographic frame of reference.
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