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- noun an examination taken by 11 and 12 year old students in England to select suitable candidates for grammar school; -- now no longer used.
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- noun Alternative form of
eleven plus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (formerly in Britain) an examination taken by 11 and 12 year old students to select suitable candidates for grammar school
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Examples
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The combined population of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut is 11,300,000, quite a bit more than 260,000, and yet those 260,000 are about to make a decision that could have tremendous impact on the lives of those other eleven-plus million.
John Odum: For Good or Ill, Vermont's Election Will Impact Millions of Other New Englanders John Odum 2010
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The combined population of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut is 11,300,000, quite a bit more than 260,000, and yet those 260,000 are about to make a decision that could have tremendous impact on the lives of those other eleven-plus million.
John Odum: For Good or Ill, Vermont's Election Will Impact Millions of Other New Englanders John Odum 2010
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The combined population of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut is 11,300,000, quite a bit more than 260,000, and yet those 260,000 are about to make a decision that could have tremendous impact on the lives of those other eleven-plus million.
John Odum: For Good or Ill, Vermont's Election Will Impact Millions of Other New Englanders John Odum 2010
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I'm no sustainability expert, but in the eleven-plus years I've called Denver home, I've watched us undergo some significant paradigm shifts.
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I\'m no sustainability expert, but in the eleven-plus years I\'ve called Denver home, I\'ve watched us undergo some significant paradigm shifts.
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Tony flaig bignews said: "Simply put many middleclass parents, shell out good money, for one reason, to get their little brats coached into passing the eleven-plus"
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Simply put many middleclass parents, shell out good money, for one reason, to get their little brats coached into passing the eleven-plus, either at tin pot schools or with extra tuition, thus cheating the system.
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I attended the local Catholic elementary (grade) school, and later, following a successful performance in the "eleven-plus" examination which I took rather earlier than most, transferred to the College of the Sacred Heart in Wimbledon
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John had passed his eleven-plus to get in but, once there, he did no academic work and was put in the bottom stream.
John Lennon, Cynthia 2005
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There's so much rubbish talked about the eleven-plus.
Disordered Minds Walters, Minette 2003
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