adjective
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a metropolitan area (= a very large city )
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major metropolitan areas such as Delhi, Bombay, and Calcutta
Metropolitan Police, the
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■ NOUN
area
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Industrialization in rural areas has increased, and has been more rapid than in metropolitan areas.
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But price changes, as shown in the index charts below, will vary in the 10 metropolitan areas examined.
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These were designated as metropolitan areas and were given a two-tier structure of metropolitan counties and districts.
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Consider that the Phoenix metropolitan area is in the midst of an apartment construction boom.
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In the London metropolitan area growth was in the order of 23.5 percent, from 22,225 to 27,449.
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Home will create a private network packed in major metropolitan areas .
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The most important variation from Redcliffe-Maud as far as the structure of local government was concerned was the addition of two further metropolitan areas .
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This is the size of any major metropolitan area .
authority
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His second task was to preserve and exercise the metropolitan authority of his see.
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This contrasts with the picture in the metropolitan authorities where they had 15% fewer candidates.
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Unit costs in metropolitan authorities have been consistently higher than in the shire counties.
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The situation is further confused by the abolition of the metropolitan authorities and the probable demise of the structure plan system.
borough
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And riders are also being asked to tell council leaders what they need in Britain's biggest metropolitan borough , Doncaster.
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Sixty years later Camberwell was a metropolitan borough whose population had multiplied more than six fold to 259,339.
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The metropolitan boroughs also vary in size with a minimum near 200,000.
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Somewhat more of a variation occurs if we examine the eight capped metropolitan boroughs .
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Of the 19 LEAs involved, 12 were metropolitan boroughs and 7 were counties.
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London boroughs spent more than other metropolitan boroughs, which in turn spent more than county authorities.
county
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From 1841 to 1911 the national increase was twenty million, over half of which took place in the metropolitan counties .
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It was used to justify the introduction of the poll tax and to justify breaking up metropolitan counties .
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I am not claiming to have considered the whole of the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear and its satellites.
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These were designated as metropolitan areas and were given a two-tier structure of metropolitan counties and districts.
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The smallest metropolitan county had, therefore, a population approximately double that of the largest unitary authority.
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The Labour Party controlled all six metropolitan counties when they were formed in 1974.
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Then, in 1986 the Thatcher government abolished the metropolitan counties .
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Between 1974 and 1986 there were also metropolitan counties , but these were abolished and their powers passed to metropolitan district authorities.
district
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For example, non-metropolitan counties and metropolitan districts are required to appoint chief education officers and directors of social services.
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In most years, the Labour Party also controls most of the metropolitan districts .
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The Conservatives' success in Solihull gave them control of their first metropolitan district council since 1995.
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It would be a mistake to identify the metropolitan districts as urban-industrial and the periphery as rural.
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As such it complements the introduction of unitary development plans for the metropolitan districts .
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Between 1974 and 1986 there were also metropolitan counties, but these were abolished and their powers passed to metropolitan district authorities.
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It is a series of villages in the south-east of Wakefield metropolitan district which were essentially rural in character.
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Strategic planning guidance exists in all the metropolitan districts , including Tyne and Wear.
police
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In London, the metropolitan police - established in 1829 - continue to be under the direct control of the Home Secretary.
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In the metropolitan police there is only one fraud squad officer for every hundred officers.
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In the meantime, the authorities had added light anti-tank weapons and recoilless rifles to the arsenal of the metropolitan police force.
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I could substantiate the information that Mr. Docherty gave me through contact with the West Yorkshire metropolitan police .
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Some workers can only afford homes outside metropolitan areas.
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the metropolitan authorities
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the Miami metropolitan area
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Alternative accommodation in the metropolitan area for a new breed of large steamships had become a matter of some urgency.
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But the idea of one consolidated government for metropolitan Tucson quickly faded when Volgy left office.
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Home will create a private network packed in major metropolitan areas.
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It has $ 42 billion in outstanding mortgage loans among 502, 000 families in metropolitan Los Angeles.
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It was used to justify the introduction of the poll tax and to justify breaking up metropolitan counties.
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The Chamber of Commerce promoted a sleek, sophisticated image of metropolitan Tucson as a good place to live.
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The distinction between the metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas lay in the distribution of services between the counties and their districts.