national league

collocation in English

meaningsofnationalandleague

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national
adjective
uk
/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/us
/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/
relating to or typical of a whole country and its people, rather than to part of that country or to ...
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league
noun[C]
uk
/liːɡ/us
/liːɡ/
a group of teams playing a sport who take part in competitions between ...
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(Definition ofnationalandleaguefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofnational league

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They work hard and produce good results in thenationalleaguetables, but it is not easy without full support.
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But the league table will be anationalleaguetable.
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Football clubs belong to the national association and thenationalleagueon a voluntary basis, but football is essentially a local activity.
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They cannot compete in thenationalleague, as their home facility has no licence for charging for sporting events.
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Results will be published in anationalleaguetable, to measure progress and to allow each business link to benchmark its performance.
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We are pretty well at the bottom of thenationalleaguetable.
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That puts the area, almost at the bottom of thenationalleaguetable.
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It was once one of the country's busiest ports, ranked third in thenationalleague.
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Wiltshire is near the top of thenationalleaguetable for national curriculum assessment.
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The school comes consistently very high in the annualnationalleaguetables, and it has a truly comprehensive intake with its fair share of special needs pupils.
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The school has worked very hard to establish a system of certificates of achievement for 16 and 18-year-olds, but they appear nowhere in thenationalleaguetables.
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I maintain that it will continue to rise if we are to maintain our position in what is, after all, the international rather than thenationalleagueof research.
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The political debate has been whether the examination results alone are so crude that when they are put in thenationalleaguetables they can actively mislead parents.
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It is 21st in thenationalleague.
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Sandwell is only now half-way up thenationalleaguetable.
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The last availablenationalleaguetable ranking of the school before its choice to withdraw from the ranking system was 243rd.
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Eight clubs, the established norm for anationalleague, was a prohibitively high threshold for a new venture.
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The association administers the national football team, as well as thenationalleague.
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In 1985, they werenationalleaguechampions, after setting a national record as the only team to go unbeaten for 17 consecutive games.
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Overall he played 16 times innationalleaguewith the relegated team.
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