Sentence examples for greenwich from inspiring English sources
proper noun
A town on the south bank of the River Thames in London through which the prime meridian passes.
The Thames from London Bridge to Greenwich I can only compare to an immense moving street of ships, large and small, something suggestive to the Parisian mind of an aquatic Rue de Rivoli.
Pick up any local paper around the time of an election and you will find multiple letters from "concerned residents of X" objecting to the disastrous policies of Y. Similarly, concerned residents often turn up on talk radio shows and even in campaign literature, although the latter can prove more dangerous, as Labour party activists posing as residents in Greenwich discovered a few years back.
On top of the hill is the Royal Observatory, home to Greenwich Mean Time, where you can stand on the meridian line, the dividing point between Earth's east and west hemispheres.
When sonar images were compared with Erebus's construction plans, which were provided by the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, they showed that the craft was undoubtedly Franklin's flagship.
Greenwich, where Lee Rigby was murdered in 2013 and where his killers had been active, has seen its allocation for 2014/15 almost double to £200,000 on the previous year.
In 1997 the late Lord Harris of Greenwich told the House of Lords there was evidence the funds were stolen and called for them to be returned.
Thomson Financial's American private-equity index rose by 22.6% in 2005, compared with a 7.1% return in Greenwich-Van's American hedge-fund barometer.
Steven Morris I spent much of the Olympic fortnight among the horsey folk at Greenwich Park, where the arena surely offered the best views in London.
I was thrilled by Dubai's Burj Khalifa – located as it is in the desert – and the City of London tower cluster seen from the Monument; Canary Wharf is exciting from Greenwich Park, less so from Poplar.
It then winds across the heath before heading into Greenwich Park, the most historic of London's royal parks.
He took the lead in a Greenwich Village revival of Golden Boy, written by Clifford Odets, and was spotted by a studio talent scout and offered a contract by Universal.
