Greater London
Comprising most of the built-up area of London, the capital of the United Kingdom, the administrative area of Greater London covers the 1579 km2 of the 32 London boroughs and the small City of London.With a population of 7,172,000 (2002), Greater London is administered since 2000 by the Greater London Authority, and has a directly elected mayor, Ken Livingstone. The former Greater London Council, created in 1965 to replace the area's five counties and three county borough authorities, was abolished in 1986.
Greater London's population rose from 1.1 million in 1801 to an estimated 8.5 million in 1939, but declined to 6.5 million in the 1980s. Wider definitions of London's metropolitan area extend over a far larger region with up to ten million inhabitants, but generally include districts distinct from London proper.
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without making any such uncomfortable discovery, sat down in her
great rate.
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more noises there were. The noise of her own needle and thread as
of all the six pupils, and of Miss Pupford, and of Miss Pupford's
afternoon. Then, the schoolroom clock conducted itself in a way in
yet persisted in running on as hard and as loud as it could: the
minutes in a state of the greatest confusion, and knocked them about
Perhaps this alarmed the stairs; but be that as it might, they began
crack, and then poor little Miss Kimmeens, not liking the furtive
was not her own voice that she heard--it was somebody else making
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By-and-by the stitching became so palpable a failure that Miss Kitty
gave it up. Then the question arose about reading. But no; the
her eyes to fall on when they rose from the page, had not more heart
needlework had gone to its box, and, since something MUST be done--
five pupils, and why then should she now conceive a lurking dread of
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