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    leicester
    [ noun ]
    1. a largely agricultural county in central England

    2. <noun.location>
    3. an industrial city in Leicestershire in central England; built on the site of a Roman settlement

    4. <noun.location>


    1. Woolwich, Alliance & Leicester, and Cheltenham & Gloucester do little more than promote awareness of their names.
    2. Mr Peter White, Alliance & Leicester chief executive, said the backlog of housing demand was 'like a dam waiting to burst'.
    3. Belgrave Road is Leicester's curry centre although Melton Road offers good competition with, in particular, The Taj at number 259 (0533-662185). BRADFORD Bradford boasts the highest concentration of curry restaurants in the country.
    4. Leicester Grammar is already approaching the very best results in spite of being co-educational because it is selective.
    5. In April, British scientist Alex Jeffreys, a pioneer in genetic testing with the University of Leicester's genetics department, said Blake's test proved Dotson innocent.
    6. Some 900 houses will be improved and several hundred new units built. Mr Alistair Reid, the principal economic development officer at the city council, sees the city challenge project as the spearhead of the attempt to attract new investment to Leicester.
    7. A bomb exploded near an army van in the center of Leicester just before rush hour Tuesday evening, injuring two people, blowing pedestrians off their feet and shattering windows, officials said.
    8. After the inquiry began, there were attacks at military centers in Leicester and Halifax in February and two bombings last week in London.
    9. 'People have stopped scowling and started smiling,' says Mr John Wareing, managing director of Jones & Shipman, the Leicester machine tools group. Of course, an upturn in orders will bring relief.
    10. The early redemption penalty is three months. A survey by the Alliance & Leicester building society shows that nearly 7m home-owners would like to move house.
    11. He won an informal undertaking that Leicester could compete in City Challenge Two.
    12. Meanwhile, all the forwards and many of the backs converge on the man who is trying to catch the ball. 'Gloucester used to be a club you measured yourself against,' says Tony Russ, the coach of Leicester.
    13. "I was blown off my feet," 82-year-old Henry Riley told the Leicester Mercury. "I was within yards of the explosion and it was massive.
    14. The jet developed trouble in its left engine but the pilots mistakenly shut off the right engine before attempting an emergency landing at East Midlands airport near Kegworth, 20 miles northwest of Leicester.
    15. 'I had to have confidentiality until a very late stage to protect my position at Leicester; you simply don't get that by replying to a newspaper ad.'
    16. Two outstandingly patient women emerge as lifelong companions - Maeve Brennan, a colleague at Hull, and Monica Jones, an academic in the English faculty at the University of Leicester.
    17. BUGSY (18) Odeon Leicester Sq LA BELLE NOISEUSE (15) Metro, Renoir, Chelsea Cinema SHINING THROUGH (15) Odeon West End It is the late afternoon of a gangster's life.
    18. Losing finalists in 1978, Leicester then won three cups in a row and were losing finalists again in 1988 and 1989 (against Bath).
    19. This excludes the Leicester and Northampton operations.
    20. Gerta Overbeck and the Jewish artist Lea Grundig were merely names in the text. So, on one level, the Leicester exhibition is a particularly well-researched example of feminist art-history managing to salvage women artists from l'oubli.
    21. Richard Pym, former head of property operations of Burton the high-street retailers, is to be the next group finance director of the Alliance & Leicester Building Society. A 43-year-old chartered accountant, he joined Burton from BAT in 1983.
    22. As you must know, both the play and the original 'novel' are about the present royal family, imagined as reduced by a newly republican Britain to a grim council estate in Leicester.
    23. At the north-west corner of Leicester Square in London stands the Swiss Centre.
    24. Asked whether Leicester has missed the boat now that government departments are not relocating from London as much as in the 1980s, he says: 'You could say that.
    25. His sister Ursula and his brother, Leicester, killed themselves.
    26. I suspected the worst when I heard that the company had been getting the feel of a Leicester council estate - about as relevant to comedy as those studies of Jacobean Scotland by American divas who think it will help them to sing Lucia di Lammermoor.
    27. The most exotic and opulent fuchsias are the least reliably hardy, here or in Leicester.
    28. Josette Simon, a black actress from Leicester in the English Midlands, plays Quentin's doomed wife, Maggie, in a casting coup that she and Blakemore hope will freshly illuminate the play.
    29. The outlawed Irish Republican Army later said it planted the Leicester bomb.
    30. In this new work, Mr. Stannard, a lecturer in English literature at the University of Leicester, aims to be definitive.
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