What is "contra costa"

Usage examples of "contra costa".

At that time, the doctor took a sample of your blood, part of which was turned over the Contra Costa County crime lab.

Andavamo a nord, attraversando le belle colline della contea di Contra Costa, che si srotolavano sotto un cielo scuro e nuvoloso.

We were out of Oakland now, going north through the beautiful rolling hills of Contra Costa County under a dark yet cloudy sky.

Roger had been in contact with the Contra Costa and Alameda County Sheriff's offices, advising them on crash site procedures.

In the distance I saw the Contra Costa Mountains, and their silhouette was blurred as I confused the mountains for clouds, and Karla dried my eyes with fallen leaves and her sweater's hem.

Through the Berkeley tunnel and out into Contra Costa County it was cooler, without the Bay Area haze.

Rumor had it that the San Diego Union, the San Francisco Cbronicle, the San Francisco Examiner, and the Contra Costa Times were all coming out in support of him.

And he'd bring odd assorted boards and whatnot, and impossible bookshelves, all kinds of things, and years later I had further Three Stooges adventures with him going out to his house in Contra Costa (which he owned and rented) and spending impossible-to-believe afternoons when he paid me two dollars an hour for hauling out bucket after bucket of mudslime which he himself was doling out of a flooded cellar by hand, black and mud-covered as Tartarilouak the King of the Mudslimes of Paratioalaouakak Span, with a secret grin of elfish delight on his face.

Washburn, and Mr Asmunsen, the owner of a large granite quarry in Contra Costa County.