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metropolitan county

noun

  1. (in England) any of the six conurbations established as administrative units in the new local government system in 1974; the metropolitan county councils were abolished in 1986

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Before his arrival in England it had been generally thought that two Tories would be returned for the metropolitan county.

Dublin is the metropolitan county of Ireland, also its chief city.

Very often the number is much greater, and yet this does not contain all the pauper lunatics of the metropolitan county.

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