The shires

Definition

shire /'ʃaÇǝ(r) or, in compounds , -ʃǝ(r)/ n ( Brit ) ၁။ [C] ( arch ) ၿမိဳ႕နယ္(ယခုအခ်ဳိ႕ၿမိဳ႕နယ္အမည္ တြင္ပါဝင္သည့္ စကားလံုး Hampshire, Yorkshire )။ ၂။ the shires (also the shire counties ) [pl] အဂၤလန္ အလယ္ပိုင္းရိွ ေတာပိုင္းမွ ၿမိဳ႕အခ်ဳိ႕။ ❏ shire-horse n ဝန္စည္မ်ားဆြဲသည့္ အားေကာင္းေသာ ျမင္းႀကီး မ်ဳိး။

Examples

1. ‘What is lacking
2. however
3. is a map of all the counties and shires across the archipelago
4. given the number of references to them in Smith's narrative.’
5. ‘From the battlements
6. she can look over a bend in the River Thames
7. across the treetops to Eton College and out over farms
8. villages and shires of Berks and Bucks.’
9. ‘Labour will represent the rural shires and the Conservatives can try Sheffield.’
10. ‘Plans to revive traditional shire county names has received a favourable response in Westmorland.’
11. ‘In three out of ten questions asked
12. Wiltshire was top of all shire counties in England.’
13. ‘Meanwhile
14. he's enjoying the English shires - Essex and Leicester.’
15. ‘"This has been interpreted as a precursor to the demise of the three shire counties.’
16. ‘At first
17. they thought of moving out into one of the shires.’
18. ‘The English shires will disappear and another bit of our heritage will be lost.’
19. ‘I'm looking forward to the conference tomorrow
20. mainly for a chance to hear from more people from the surrounding Shires.’
21. ‘Sessions of the shire court were held under the jurisdiction of the Commissioners for each circuit.’
22. ‘Chaps who came double-barrelled in girth as well as surname
23. their powerbases were in the shires and they had had a good war.’
24. ‘There's even a polite cheer from the family from the shires who are sitting directly behind us in the stalls.’
25. ‘Our fellow guests
26. two couples from the Shires
27. join us and soon the house party is in full swing.’
28. ‘In the bar you might find yourself standing next to a TV personality
29. a Bristol barrister
30. an Italian actress or land-owning couple from the shires.’
31. ‘We have a lot of buildings that were built over 100 years ago and cannot compare with the leafy shires.’
32. ‘It looks like it's been written by a teenage girl from the shires.’
33. ‘The shires are up in arms
34. with many staging a campaign of passive resistance
35. only prepared to pay reasonable inflation-linked increases to their bills.’
36. ‘Its average member is 65 years old - mainly wealthy retirees concentrated in the rural Shires.’
37. ‘To have the tally-hoes of the English shires coming in droves to Ireland's hunting counties would severely disrupt the relationship between the hunts and the landowners.’