sixth year
(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
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How to use sixth year in a sentence
The party in the White House historically takes a hit in the sixth year midterms.
You Don’t Need Nate Silver to ‘Predict’ a GOP Win This Fall | Jeff Greenfield | March 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe 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.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferWe are led to this supposition by finding, in the sixth year of Edward VI., an act 'for the putting down of gig-mills.'
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 | VariousThe little maiden was then in her sixth year; the little lord, as hath been said, only in his tenth.
A Legend of Reading Abbey | Charles MacFarlane
The bridegroom, who had just entered his sixth year "pressed to his heart a blushing bride of two and a half!"
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan | Helena Pretrovna BlavatskyThis association has 698 branches throughout the world, and is in its sixth year.
Esperanto: Hearings before the Committee on Education | Richard Bartholdt and A. Christen
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