neighbouring parish

collocation in English

meaningsofneighbouringandparish

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neighbouring
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈneɪ.bər.ɪŋ/us
/ˈneɪ.bər.ɪŋ/
Neighbouring places are next to or near ...
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parish
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpær.ɪʃ/us
/ˈper.ɪʃ/
in some Christian denominations, an area cared for by one priest with its own church, or (in England) the smallest unit of ...
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(Definition ofneighbouringandparishfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The church may have been made redundant or, to use the fashionable word, "clustered" with neighbouring parishes.
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The four neighbouring parishes have a combined population of little more than 2,000.
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Because it may be that houses are being built in neighbouring parishes, using labour.
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The indicator does not reveal the extent to which smaller settlements and parishes are able to take up community activities in neighbouring parishes.
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That might be appropriate where the parish had included an area contiguous to an existing unparished area and areas fit to be attached to neighbouring parishes.
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Farmers in one parish may receive £191 in subsidy and farmers in theneighbouringparish, producing exactly the same tonnage of cereal per hectare, may receive £93.
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To illustrate how well and cheaply it works, let me take the case of aneighbouringparishsituated two miles away.
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Meanwhile, aneighbouringparish, which has an inactive parish council, does nothing.
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The contractor has now moved on to a much larger area in aneighbouringparish.
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I think my noble friend has made out quite a reasonable case for confining this extension to neighbouring parishes, or to aneighbouringparish.
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Surely it is implicit in the scheme that there is no work for a parish priest in that parish to do if amalgamation with theneighbouringparishis possible.
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Then there are cases of voters placed on the register whose names and streets are accurately given but who happen to be actually living in aneighbouringparish.
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Two women were here, who came from aneighbouringparish, and were busily employed in bathing a child.
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Theneighbouringparishchurch (see below) is still in use.
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As aneighbouringparishand a club beset with inner turmoil at the time, many regarded this appointment as a poison chalice.
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For most purposes it is deemed to be a parish church but it is dedicated, not consecrated, and parishioners have a right to be married in anyneighbouringparish.
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The population growth in the town was due to the influx of migrants to larger degree than was the case in the neighbouring parishes under study.
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One of our neighbouring parishes has an even more ambitious project—again, aimed at young adults.
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In neighbouring parishes, one can have a bus service and another cannot because of population density.
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They are signed by the vicars of three neighbouring parishes and countersigned by the present bishop.
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