Adjective

(head)

(great)

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Used in referring to a region or place together with the surrounding area ; (of a city) metropolitan.

* 1990 , Geza Peter Lauter & Chikara Higashi, Internationalization of the Japanese Economy , ISBN 0792390520, p. 285

*:more than 25 percent of the country's population live there.

* 1997 , Virginia Boucher, Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook , ISBN 0838906672, p. 98

*:located in the greater Midwest.

* 2004 , Richard Alan Meckel & Heather Munro Prescott, Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health: A Historical Handbook and Guide , ISBN 0313330417, p. 201

The rate in isolated counties was about a third higher than in the greater metropolitan counties.