Bretton is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Bretton in a sentence
Bretton meaning
- A placename:
- A suburb and civil parish in the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF1600).
Using Bretton
- The main meaning on this page is: A placename: | A suburb and civil parish in the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF1600). | A placename:
- In the example corpus, bretton often appears in combinations such as: bretton woods, the bretton, in bretton.
Context around Bretton
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bretton
- In this selection, "bretton" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, towards, chef, big, woods, gordon and wood stand out and add context to how "bretton" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1988 in bretton woods new and and the bretton woods agreement. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bretton" sits close to words such as aerobics, afterparty and ahn, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bretton
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Left Bank is led by Executive Chef Bretton Combs. (10 words)
Bretton Woods at 75: Has the system reached its limits? (10 words)
Zeeshan Manzoor (30) struck the only two sixes over the big Bretton Gate boundaries. (14 words)
The only exception in all that time was in the run-up to the gold pool failure in the late sixties and after President Nixon discarded the last vestiges of sound money by ending the Bretton Woods agreement in 1970. (40 words)
A debt sustainability analysis conducted by the government indicates that the country’s public debt is unsustainable, which requires intervention from the Bretton Wood institutions like the IMF to save the economy from being thrown out of gear. (38 words)
Establishing a relationship between the buildings and the landscape was the main priority with the park's new centre, which sits in the grounds of Bretton Hall, an 18th century country park estate and first opened in 1977. (38 words)
Bretton Woods at 75: Has the system reached its limits? (10 words)
Example sentences (20)
A debt sustainability analysis conducted by the government indicates that the country’s public debt is unsustainable, which requires intervention from the Bretton Wood institutions like the IMF to save the economy from being thrown out of gear.
Bretton’s score of 159-2 was built around a consistent batting display with four players retiring at 25, and two of them returning, with Neil Buckingham top scoring with an unbeaten 36.
Here, it was the period of unquestioned U.S. economic and political hegemony from 1945 to our 1972 repudiation of the Bretton Woods system of international payments anchored on the U.S. dollar.
In 1973, foreign governments let currencies float; this put an end to Bretton Woods, and the gold standard was ousted.
It is believed the 45-year-old may be heading towards Bretton but could also have gone elsewhere.
The council says it’s understandable that the closure is “frustrating” but that other facilities remain open including Bretton Water Park and the Peterborough Lido.
The first was designed at the Bretton Woods conference in the US in 1944, where the Allied powers tried to lay down the ground rules for how the post-war international monetary system would work.
The Left Bank is led by Executive Chef Bretton Combs.
The verdict follows testimonies from several people, including a Malawian Jessica Mandanda, who on Wednesday spoke out against the real impact of the Bretton Woods institution’s economic policies on poor people’s lives and countries.
Zeeshan Manzoor (30) struck the only two sixes over the big Bretton Gate boundaries.
Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon believes - both Baltic nations - could be in Putin's firing line first.
Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon told the Sun, “The UK really needs to catch up.
In 2006, he featured in two episodes of the first season of the highly praised Not Going Out - starring Lee Mack, Sally Bretton, Katy Wix, and Hugh Dennis.
This led to the establishment of the United Nations (UN) and the Bretton Woods Agreement, the latter of which led to the creation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Following mounting pressure from the Bretton Woods institutions, former trade unionist turned politician Frederick Chiluba would embark on an ambitious structural adjustment programme (SAP) to resuscitate the ailing economy.
It was by Sir Alistair Cooke, the great journalist and broadcaster, at a Churchill conference in 1988 in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.
The only exception in all that time was in the run-up to the gold pool failure in the late sixties and after President Nixon discarded the last vestiges of sound money by ending the Bretton Woods agreement in 1970.
A friend, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, who served alongside him both in the Army and in advising NGOs in Syria, said yesterday that worries about his personal security were also causing stress.
Bretton Woods at 75: Has the system reached its limits?
Establishing a relationship between the buildings and the landscape was the main priority with the park's new centre, which sits in the grounds of Bretton Hall, an 18th century country park estate and first opened in 1977.
Common combinations with bretton
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- bretton woods 27×
- the bretton 21×
- in bretton 3×
- including bretton 2×