Sentence examples for continental cousins from inspiring English sources

But we're still trailing our continental cousins.

Second, the fact is that, compared with our continental cousins, Britain is a relatively low-taxed nation.

MARKET TREND: With the exception of Aston Martins, British sports cars for whatever reason have not been quite as hot as their continental cousins.

Given the UK's poor performances in the contest in recent years, Gordon Ramsay might have made a better choice, all the better to tell our continental cousins exactly where to put their competition.

This is an approach – largely due to the efforts of our more progressive continental cousins in Scandinavia, Germany and the Netherlands – that is still not properly understood by many UK politicians and civil servants (as George Monbiot explained recently).

The advantage we have as British viewers is that when it comes to pop music we are so stupendously ahead of our continental cousins that we can afford to be relaxed about losing the Eurovision vote.

For me, a mimosa is an instant headache, and that goes for its fancier-sounding continental cousin, the Bellini, too.

Letizia — Letitia's exotic continental cousin, more known in her native Italy (where it's number 67) than it is here.

So will our provincial and American cousins and continental visitors.

British teams do seem to be lagging behind their continental counterparts in this regard, though one team attempting to keep pace with their European cousins is Crystal Palace.

The graves (including that of my cousin) are of American airmen stationed in Britain who made raids on continental Europe and did not return.