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  • noun Plural form of sportsfield.

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Examples

  • These included laboratories, libraries, sportsfields and computers.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • The word is a play on grassroots - genuinely spontaneous political action - and derives from the artificial cover used on sportsfields around the world.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Ed Hollett 2006

  • The R20,6-million was used for a number of infrastructure improvements ranging from water treatment works in Paarl and a bulk water pipeline for Gouda to lighting for sportsfields, road repairs and stormwater facilities.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • Correctional Services Minister Ben Skosana said on Friday that he had challenged other government departments to catch up if they could after employees in his department excelled on the country's sportsfields in 2000.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • There are two identical sections with six independent units, each with its own classrooms, TV room, kitchen, workshops, sportsfields and gymnasium.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • They want a dedicated task team to probe proper usage which could include busing in schoolchildren from poverty-stricken areas and linking other disadvantaged groupings in using the high-quality sportsfields and facilities.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • In our dreams we have a vision of all our country at play in our sportsfields and enjoying deserved and enriching recreation in our theatres, galleries, beaches, mountains, plains and game parks, in conditions of peace, security and comfort.

    STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA, NELSON MANDELA 1994

  • In our dreams we have vision of all our country at play in our sportsfields and enjoying deserved and enriching recreation in our theatres, galleries, beaches, mountains, plains and game parks, in conditions of peace, securty and comfort.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • On the third day of the strike, police said a man was assaulted and a car damaged when about 100 strikers marched from Langa to a building site at the University of Cape Town sportsfields in Pinelands on Wednesday morning.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • The council this week approved a smoke-free policy for all its sportsfields, reserves and playgrounds.

    Radio New Zealand News Headlines 2010

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