modern apprenticeship

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an arrangement that allows a school leaver to gain vocational qualifications while being trained in a job

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moderationist, Moderations, moderato, moderator, modern, modern apprenticeship, modern art, modern cut, modern dance, moderne, Modern English

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The number of dissenters though is unprecedented in the modern era.
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The End of Gangs By Sam Quinones, Pacific-Standard Los Angeles gave America the modern street gang.
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I like to think of Shooters as Sodom and Gomorrah, reimagined for the modern world.
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The east window in this church has been classed as the A1 of modern painted windows.
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The pipe has a modern look and is altogether unlike those found by the English in use among the Indians in Virginia.
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But don't go hunting after them, there are still modern Immortals in the darkness of a forgotten language.
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She has embodied in her work a modern comprehension of old legends.
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And this college course I have sketched should, in the modern state, pass insensibly into adult mental activities.
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