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The CCN represents England's 20 county councils and 17 unitary authorities in shire areas.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2024
"It was a bit of a shock for Sammy the shire when she went out in the field and the two thoroughbreds whizzed around the field like two racehorses," she added.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2023
More recently, his works have also provided a fertile shire for nationalists who see themselves in his heroic archetypes.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
“If we could get five new families to the shire, for us that would be a massive success,” Hancock said Thursday.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
From the well-known names of these towns I learn in what county I have lighted; a north-midland shire, dusk with moorland, ridged with mountain: this I see.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Look at the surnames of Londoners compared to those in the shires.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2017
The 1,200 constituents who showed up for his forum — residents of Hollywood, Burbank, Silver Lake — are terrified of what’s been wrought by the faraway shires of Oshkosh, Grand Rapids, Erie and Dayton.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2017
But away from the nostalgia and a sense of living in the shires, do boundary changes actually matter?
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2013
Railing at wind farms from his perch in his favorite pub in the Kent countryside, Farage tries to articulate the fading voice of the English shires.
From Newsweek ● Mar. 11, 2013
The grouping of shires round a county town as distinct from the old national shires is probably of Scandinavian origin, and so certainly is the division of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire into “ridings.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
