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county

(United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government the county has a population of 12,345 people (United States) the largest administrative district within a state the county plans to build a new road

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Simple sentences

She met a boy at the county fair.
This is the best school in the county.
The recent sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville has cast a gloom over the county.
This county is poor in natural resources.
Tom was a county sheriff.
Tom is a county sheriff.

Movie subtitles

All due respect, Commandant, this base is in L.A. County, so when somebody's killed in L.A., it is very much in our jurisdiction.
Oh, yeah, well, uh, the county jail was all out of hall passes that day.
Anne Arundel county sheriff's department's reporting a downed aircraft burning two miles outside of Crofton.
His father was the best bookkeeper in the county. and the worst liar in the state.
The trial opened before the county court of Bourges.
Nothing like it in the county.
For 6,000. the centry. Finest spot in the county.
Take him over to the county jail.
Mr. Jorganson, you've got one of the levelest heads in the county.
Thaddus Hummel, Sheriff of Strand County, is now on the stand.
County hospital.
Supreme Court, State of New York, County of New York now in session. the Honorable Judge May presiding.
Only recently, when he was in the County Hospital for observation. he not only refused to be examined by these gentlemen-- state psychiatrists-- but he actually made a violent attack upon them.
Here are some Kimball County reports you can look over.
Edward Higgins, age 48, a physics teacher who resides in Torrance County.
Meeting at the county administrator's place.
Well, do you know what happened at the last county ball?
Gentlemen, I promise you to clear your county of this group of bandits.
Attaboy, County, old boy, old boy, County.
This gentleman is Forrester Harvey, who was born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1884.
Now hightail out of here and behave yourself or I'll have the county take you and all your relatives off the dole.
County Hospital.
Anne Arundel County Sheriff's Department is reporting a downed aircraft burning 2 miles outside of Crofton.
At the local county school.
Judge Thatcher, the newly elected Magistrate of our county, has consented to make the presentation of the Bible prize to Sydney Sawyer.
There's none in the county can touch you, and none in the state.
He's the best overseer in the county.
About every family in the county.
Well, she's going to marry one of the county boys next month.
You still think you're the belle of the county, the cutest trick in shoe leather.
He even lent me a horse to ride here. One that won him a hundred guineas in the county steeplechase.
It seems a pity to bundle her off before she's seen anything of the county.
Almira Gulch, just because you own half the county doesn't mean you can run the rest of us!

News and current affairs

In places like rural El Paso County, on the eastern plains of Colorado, far from the federal budget debate's epicenter, spending cuts are the order of the day.
These cuts are having a very real and immediate impact on El Paso County's residents.
Since most government corruption occurs at the county, township and village levels, it usually involves abuses of power by local officials.
Accordingly, each year, every county is required to submit a budget that projects two years ahead which demonstrates how its budget will be balanced in that time.
In 1997, China promised to preserve these freedoms for 50 years under the one county, two systems mantra.
His choice of destination - Karachi, Pakistan's largest city and his political base, rather than Islamabad, the county's capital - suggests the depth of the crisis now bubbling below the surface.
In Lebanon itself, serious internal dialogue about the county's future remains stalled.
Across America, in Orange County in California, in Houston and Dallas, Arlington and Falls Church, Virginia, Saigon has been resurrected.
That's 10 times the rate for Americans in general, eight times the rate for workers in Los Angeles County, and 16 times the rate for residents of metropolitan Atlanta.
Such reforms can help to ensure that budgetary resources are available at different levels of government (central, provincial, prefectural, county, township, and village), and are commensurate with expenditure responsibilities.
A more recent British trial, performed on women aged 39-41, used only mammography, as did the largest of all, the Swedish two-county trial.
For example, the Swedish two-county trial was randomized by clusters of population groups, and the comparability between the women in the screened and control groups was not confirmed.
When a government-run brick plant in Hongdong County of Shanxi Province was revealed to be using slave labor, a famous episode from a Beijing opera flashed through my mind.
In that opera, a prostitute named Su San, after being sentenced to death, pleads for mercy to unconcerned passersby as she is marched down the main roads of Hongdong County in shackles.
As I click on the Web site of the county government, there is no mention of slave labor or child workers at the brick factory.
Indeed, were it not for the 400 fathers who petitioned for the rescue of their kidnapped children who had been sold into slavery, Hongdong County would still remain a tourism hot spot for Chinese people seeking their roots.
The author Zheng Yi reported that in Wuxuan County alone, more than 100 people were eaten, because devouring enemies was the only way to prove one's love for Mao.

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