Easter term
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Hynes said he would spend time at St Anne's "early in the Easter term" and he would be available to speak to parents, carers and students.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026
Peterborough's Hampton Vale Primary Academy plans to install a portable pop-up pool in its playground by the Easter term, so about 400 pupils can have swimming lessons.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025
It was always the way last year that, if we had a ground wet to any degree, we were as good as beaten—look at the Easter term, for example.
From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Jones, Henry Paul Mainwaring
I do, though," said Tom, "and it has been on my mind ever since Easter term, and has spoilt my temper and everything—that and something else that you know of.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas
The only thing they'd got to do was to play like hell in the Easter term, and here's that —— Clarke trying to make us do work, and, what is more, to work for Claremont!
From The Loom of Youth by Waugh, Alec
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