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Examples
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"There's no reason," he says, "why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake."
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We both had to wear short pants long after our grammar-school peers had graduated to trousers.
A Beastly Pursuit, in Rhyme Ralph Gardner Jr. 2010
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You guys allowed this kook to ask basically the same question over and over like a fricking grammar-school kid purposely being annoying.
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I'm not sure she'd cut it in a grammar-school play.
"I want to be where I don't need to hide myself..." greygirlbeast 2010
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A grammar-school boy, he went to Cambridge to study English.
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So it's hard to think that even the biggest black-comedy fans would guffaw at the sight of a grammar-school student being blasted.
Reduce your carbon footprint or get ready to explode David Fahrenthold 2010
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The question didn't get as many shrieks or glo-stick waves as Cosgrove wanted, probably because only a small portion of the mostly grammar-school aged audience knew they were, in fact, in Bethesda.
In concert: Miranda Cosgrove at The Music Center at Strathmore Dave McKenna 2011
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The women are of the era when the only serious career offering was a husband and children, and in the novel all of them marry, except for a grammar-school teacher who is unable to find the right man and another woman who ends up a bit of a floozy.
Destiny's Children Joseph Epstein 2012
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A grammar-school boy, he went to Cambridge to study English.
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Margaret Powell née Langley began working at the age of 13, having passed up a grammar-school scholarship because her family needed the extra income that her labor supplied.
What the Help Really Saw Elizabeth Lowry 2012
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