Sentence examples for metropolitan divisions from inspiring English sources

A 'before and after' study design was implemented involving two metropolitan divisions of General Practice (The Adelaide Central and Eastern (ACE) Division and the Western Division of General Practice (WDGP) who assisted the study team to recruit General Practitioners from the membership lists of these Divisions.

Within the larger urban areas, there can be officially recognized subsets called metropolitan divisions.

Under the latest plan, a region with at least two and a half million people will be subdivided into "metropolitan divisions," with at least 50,000 people, thus giving New Jersey communities an identity.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services adjusts its Medicare payments annually.Traditionally, it has gone by the area boundaries set by the Office of Management and Budget, including M.S.A.'s and metropolitan divisions, though it is not required to do so.

The geographic components of metropolitan divisions (as well as metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas) are counties and equivalent entities.

We eliminated those cities with fewer than 500,000 residents and broke some of the largest cities into smaller metropolitan divisions.

For example, Long Island is a metropolitan division within the New York M.S.A., as is an area stretching from Newark to the Delaware River.

But in 2000, the Clinton administration simplified the criteria for such areas; when the Bush administration applied those rules to the data from the 2000 census, it turned out that those eight New York counties had been combined with Bergen, Hudson and Passaic Counties into a single metropolitan division.

While a metropolitan division is a subdivision of a larger metropolitan statistical area, it often functions as a distinct social and economic area within the larger region.

***Note that Peabody MA refers to the Essex County metropolitan division, which includes the suburbs north of Boston, with a population of 740,000.

Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.