(in England) an administrative unit consisting of a town or city and a borough.
（英格兰）都市区
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Leeds, with 2,282, was by far the worst of the five metropolitan districts of West Yorkshire.
This decision limited the extent of transfer of resources from the shire counties to metropolitan districts.
What may be okay for metropolitan districts may not be a good thing for Cumbria.
The Conservatives abolished the Greater London Council and metropolitan authorities - all Labour-controlled - and devolved their duties to London boroughs and metropolitan districts respectively.
This is one of the lowest borrowing figures in the country - the average for metropolitan districts is over £1, 100 per head.
Just like many other fine buildings throughout the metropolitan district, it has been allowed to fall into such a state of disrepair that it is now deemed ‘not economically viable’.
I respectfully suggest that whatever problems Bradford may have, either as a city or as a metropolitan district, there is no place in our town for such barely concealed racism.
Bradford will soon become one of the first metropolitan districts in the UK to have all its telephone exchanges linked up for high-speed broadband Internet access.
They see themselves as a rural outpost of the metropolitan district with needs which are not necessarily compatible with those of the largely urban area with which they would be teamed.
The city's ranking among the 36 metropolitan districts for expenditure per pupil was bottom in 1999-00 but is now 28th for secondary schools with a sixth-form and 22nd for those without.
Between 300 and 400 workers in the old City Borough area downed tools after a mass meeting this morning and their colleagues throughout the metropolitan district were expected to quickly follow suit.
Bradford comes 14th from the bottom in an ‘easy to use’ footpath league featuring 36 other metropolitan districts.
Unfortunately for them, though, what makes it such an attractive and prestigious place to live also makes people want to visit it - and, hopefully, then go on to visit other places in the metropolitan district.
I have limited my own shopping to Bradford and the surrounding metropolitan district as a point of principle for a long time now, believing that enough money is spent in Leeds.
Instead we should be going forward together as a city and a metropolitan district.
A unified effort on behalf of pensioners from all areas of the metropolitan district should be the aim and not just one district.
From October 16, the following counties/unitary authorities and metropolitan districts will be grouped together and considered as a single unit.
Mr Dodd said ‘there had not been a great number of shootings’ in West Yorkshire compared with other metropolitan districts.
It is a possible site for a mixed group of eight, aged ten to 16 who through no fault of their own are currently in ordinary children's homes throughout the country, outside the metropolitan district.
It has opened a debate on the pecking order within the metropolitan district, but has sadly lifted the sticking plaster on the sore of post-1974 relationships between Keighley and Bradford.