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- proper noun A city in Scotland, named after
St. Andrew theApostle . It is the home ofgolf .
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Examples
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"This issue was agreed at St Andrews, which is over three years ago," said the Sinn Fein representative.
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I met him only once, 40 years ago, as a student at St Andrews, but his image stays with me: a blisteringly bald man with a sly wit, a modest bachelor until his mid-50s, a schoolteacher in small villages who wrote with compulsive energy in a variety of forms – poems, novels, stories, plays – in two languages, English and Gaelic.
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Our scene is St Andrews, where Wills, Kate, a chap called Fergus who never talks to the press and "one other student who has never been identified" are sharing a house.
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J & G Innes 107 South Street, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9QW, 01334 472174A family business for four generations, this stationer, bookseller and gift shop occupies one of the more extraordinary buildings in the heart of St Andrews.
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Just one day later, Louis Oosthuizen strode out for the Open at St Andrews and teed off an incredible run for Chubby's boys: within 72 holes the South African had become the first player in ISM's stable to win a major in 20 years of trying, just as Chandler had relinquished control of 75% of a business that was about to see its prospects transformed.
Super-agent sold out of firm just as his players set out for golf grand slam 2011
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It took, after all, until 1990 for Augusta National, America's equivalent to St Andrews, to admit its first black member; there are still no female members.
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After finishing at St Andrews, he remained in Fife.
Andrew Lawrence: my comic partner swapped Edinburgh festival for The Pictish Trail 2011
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Alfred Cuschieri, director of the Institute for Medical Science and Technology, at Dundee and St Andrews universities, has a potential solution.
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He was on my English course at university in St Andrews, Fife.
Andrew Lawrence: my comic partner swapped Edinburgh festival for The Pictish Trail 2011
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The trip to Royal County Down with Gerry was one he undertook last year, too, before St Andrews, but no one lumped it into a narrative about a boy wonder reconnecting with family and home soil.
Rory McIlroy prepares for Open pressure cooker with stroll in the sun 2011
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