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sixth year

noun

  1. (in Scotland) the most senior class in a secondary school to which pupils, usually above the legal leaving age, may proceed to take sixth-year studies, retake or take additional Highers, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The party in the White House historically takes a hit in the sixth year midterms.

The United States is entering its sixth year of extraordinarily high unemployment.

This tree is properly a native of India, where it attains a height of eighty feet, and bears fruit in its sixth year.

We are led to this supposition by finding, in the sixth year of Edward VI., an act 'for the putting down of gig-mills.'

The little maiden was then in her sixth year; the little lord, as hath been said, only in his tenth.

The bridegroom, who had just entered his sixth year "pressed to his heart a blushing bride of two and a half!"

This association has 698 branches throughout the world, and is in its sixth year.

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