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- proper noun a town in
Lancashire ,England .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Outs Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (Spartak Moscow, £5m); Aristote Nsiala (Accrington, loan); James Wallace (Tranmere, loan).
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(Is that about the level of Accrington Stanley, I wonder?)
Tottenham Hotspur v FC Twente – as it happened Scott Murray 2010
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And Accrington's John Coleman is third, just behind the big beasts.
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But unfortunately for Aldershot, Accrington and co they can't hold claim to this most coveted of titles.
The most drawtastic day in football history | The Knowledge 2011
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And just look at the variations within a single region and single group: the Accrington Observer, down 10.9%; the Middleton Guardian, down 11.3% – but the Stockport Express and South Manchester Reporter virtually unchanged.
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They've played 10 times on Christmas Day – including a humdinger of a 5-4 defeat against Accrington Stanley in 1951 – and won only once.
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A worker walks past a brick mountain at the Nori brick plant in Accrington.
Office of National Statistics accused of exaggerating construction slump 2011
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A grand idea – till someone pointed out the fates of the original Accrington and Aldershot clubs.
Epic tales of the Wessex footballing crowd | Frank Keating 2011
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Thus "Jimmie Standing in the Rain", a poignant little song about a cowboy singer in the northern clubs, is footnoted "Accrington, 1937"; "One Bell Ringing", meanwhile, carries the note "London underground – 22nd of July 2005" which alerts you to the fact that it is a lament for the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes.
Elvis Costello: 'I've never liked the word maturity. It implies decay' Tim Adams 2010
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"When we went to the airport today it was a bit unnerving," said Adam Wallace, a 22-year-old security manager from Accrington, Lancashire.
Tunisian PM Ghannouchi prepares unity government to halt chaos 2011
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