Sentence examples for sprawling county from inspiring English sources

Yorkshire is a big, sprawling county in northern England that offers an equally sprawling array of activities, from stunning medieval cities to gorgeous green landscapes.

And according to the Federal Communications Commission, everyone in the sprawling county has access to broadband internet.

In Riverside County, the population grew by 42 percent, and in San Bernardino, a sprawling county just to the north, it is up 19 percent.

In all, 6,686 voters in this sprawling county just north of Miami handed in ballots seemingly without marking a choice for president.

"Las Vegas has become Orange County with casinos," said D. Taylor, an official with the Culinary Workers Unionn, referring to the sprawling county southeast of Los Angeles.

The report said Latino drivers were four to nine times more likely to be stopped in the sprawling county, which includes Phoenix and its environs, than non-Latino drivers.

"We found that U.S. adults living in sprawling counties weigh more, are more likely to be obese and are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure than are their counterparts in compact counties," Reid Ewing of the National Center for Smart Growth at the University of Maryland told reporters.

Specifically, the study showed that those who lived in sprawling counties were likely to walk less, weigh more, and have greater prevalence of hypertension than those living in more compact counties.

One study reported that, after controlling for individual differences, those living in sprawling counties are more likely to walk less in their leisure time, weigh more, and have a greater prevalence of hypertension than those living in more compact places (Ewing et al. 2003).

Nassau's rapid development after World War II created a sprawling suburban county of 1.3 million people that lacks a real downtown or focal center.

The battle over the Great Swamp began in 1959 when the Port of New York Authority (later renamed the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey) announced a plan to use 10,000 acres of the sprawling Morris County tract for a fourth major airport in the New York region.