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Buckinghamshire

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  • proper noun An inland county of England bounded by Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Surrey, Berkshire and Oxfordshire.

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Examples

  • This new robot at biscuit brand McVitie's laboratory in Buckinghamshire is tasked with testing the crumbliness of cookies.

    Boing Boing: March 6, 2005 - March 12, 2005 Archives 2005

  • The team, from the Spinal Injuries Unit of Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, were called in by Prime Mincer Gollum Brown after recent trauma in the opinion polls.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • The team, from the Spinal Injuries Unit of Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, were called in by Prime Mincer Gollum Brown after recent trauma in the opinion polls.

    BREAKING: Top Doctors Called to Westminster Dungeekin 2009

  • This is the man who broke off from a postgraduate thesis on Milton's religious poetry to enter the world of comedy and who now lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife, a speech therapist whom he met while studying English at Oxford, and their three children.

    Armando Iannucci: 'Now is not the time for a crap opposition' Stuart Jeffries 2010

  • 'Alcohol was an escape route'Matt, 18 and living in Buckinghamshire, describes how years of heavy drinking as a teenager affected his life.

    Number of drunken children in A&E rises sharply Denis Campbell 2010

  • The slight problem with that scenario is that Smuggo and his ghastly wife have retired to their country estate in Buckinghamshire and he would have to win a bye-election to get back into Parliament, something which might prove tricky, to say the least in the present climate.

    Et tu, Miliband, Byers, Clarke, Milburn..... 2008

  • Her major land holding, Missenden in Buckinghamshire, was far from the cluster, although it anchored another much thinner cluster in eastern Buckinghamshire and western Hertfordshire.

    From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

  • The slight problem with that scenario is that Smuggo and his ghastly wife have retired to their country estate in Buckinghamshire and he would have to win a bye-election to get back into Parliament, something which might prove tricky, to say the least in the present climate.

    Archive 2008-08-03 2008

  • At a stables in Buckinghamshire, every horse kicked out the door of its stall and bolted.

    Excerpt: Tamar by Mal Peet 2007

  • The 29-year-old traveller, from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, represented himself in court.

    Poachers convicted under Hunting Act 2007

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