• After that, setting falls away sharply for other subjects - for example English (42%), geography (31%) and information technology (19%).

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  • For example, English likes to describe events in terms of agents doing things.

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  • For example, English sentence structures focus on agents, and in our criminal-justice system, justice has been done when we've found the transgressor and punished him or her accordingly (rather than finding the victims and restituting appropriately, an alternative approach to justice).

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  • The first is that although the Welsh language flourishes (arguably because Welsh-medium schools offer a way for richer parents to enjoy academic selection), the region remains close to England, sharing, for example, the English press. (The Scots have their own newspapers.) And plenty of English newcomers are learning Welsh, drawn by those same good schools.

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  • Italian merchants might, for example, lend to English sheep farmers or wool merchants, in return for lower prices.

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  • Devolving more power to the English regions, for example, might help, except that the English are not conspicuously keen.

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  • English, for example, is famously a muddle of German, Norse and medieval French.

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  • See the Foursquare Privacy 101 for an example of good plain English.

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  • In English, for example, the treatment of speaking and listening varied and there was significantly less prescribed reading in the IGCSEs.

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  • English solicitors, for example, have had to accept a trade-off between high incomes and professional autonomy.

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  • Students interested in chemistry, for example, will likely take their English and calculus classes on-line, along with most of their general education requirements.

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  • The English foot, for example, is almost identical to the Japanese Kanejaku, and both are as long as the sole of an average man's shoe.

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  • By using Apex, a school could avoid the cost of hiring a teacher to conduct AP English classes, for example, but could still offer these advanced classes.

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  • To this end, the PLP emphasise training in, for example, literacy (mathematics, English, Urdu), health, agriculture (crop, fish, poultry and livestock production), life skills (peace-building, conflict management and resolution), food processing and preservation and dressmaking.

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  • Students can turn what could be a loose proxy for smarts and responsibility, say for example, an Associates degree in English, into a strong signal and skills-based orientation that tells the retailer that the individual has not only the talent, but intention, to be a floor-manager at a big box retailer.

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  • For example at the entry level, workers with English skill may have been able to find a good job decades ago whereas now only the subset with more education would find a good job.

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  • English-made Bremont watches, for example, are marketed for those people who have a penchant for living dangerously.

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  • For example, older men without an undergraduate degree receive a 53% wage premium for being fluent in English, compared to 28% for older men with an undergraduate degree.

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  • For example, nine of the 20 football clubs in the English Premier League last season were owned by foreigners. (The final count was eight: no amount of American cash could have saved Derby County from relegation.) One or two may be rich men's playthings, but most have been bought for the media rights, ticket sales and merchandising.

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  • For example, the site's developers plan to set up English-language chat rooms where kids can hone ability in an atmosphere free of classroom cobwebs.

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  • The English of Geoffrey Chaucer (born in the 14th century), for example, is incomprehensible to modern laymen, whereas that of William Shakespeare (born in the 16th) is not only comprehensible but held by some to be a model.

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  • Appalachia for example, was largely populated by what you Americans call the Scotch Irish, and we English call Scots Presbyterians.

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  • And he said, well, you know, my biggest problem is, Korean parents are too demanding and they are insisting, for example, that I import, and I've had to import, thousands of foreign English teachers because they all feel that first graders should be learning English already.

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  • For example, in Japan most people just buy Japanese content, but a significant portion of people also buy English books.

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  • American universities have long operated in other countries: Johns Hopkins University, for example, opened a branch in Italy in 1955 and another in China in 1986, teaching mostly in English and catering for both local and visiting students.

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  • For example, recent college grads with a degree in architecture have a 13.9% unemployment rate, while English literature majors had a 9.2% rate, according to a study conducted by Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workplace.

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