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Until it tackles it own systemic failure – a task it shows neither the inclination nor the competence to achieve – it is not remotely well placed to be devising fifth-form stratagems for "dealing with" Fifa.
Who next for Sepp Blatter's Fifa brains trust – Cheryl Cole? | Marina Hyde 2011
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Until it tackles it own systemic failure – a task it shows neither the inclination nor the competence to achieve – it is not remotely well placed to be devising fifth-form stratagems for "dealing with" Fifa.
Who next for Sepp Blatter's Fifa brains trust – Cheryl Cole? | Marina Hyde 2011
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I liked her style: no humbug, just Jezebel with a sassy twinkle and a fifth-form fringe, lightly touched by the crazy gods - as many politicals are; Georgie Broadfoot was daft as a brush.
Watershed 2010
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He sounds like the founder of a fifth-form debating society in a failing school, with no members other than himself, foaming at the mouth about 'mass murder' by Israel, a country he hates with pathological passion.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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As to the politics, you'd get far more maturity and truth in your average fifth-form debating society.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Arthur and Mr. John Pendennis had been at the school, was asking the fifth-form boy who sate by the door for Pendennis.
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Mr. Buck, the tutor, was no better a scholar than many a fifth-form boy at Grey Friars; might have some stupid humdrum notions about the metre and grammatical construction of a passage of Aeschylus or Aristophanes, but had no more notion of the poetry than Mrs. Binge, his bed-maker; and Pen grew weary of hearing the dull students and tutor blunder through a few lines of a play, which he could read in
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The Major asked the fifth-form boy to carry his card up to the
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A few days beforehand, the fifth-form boarders, under the tutelage of a couple of governesses, drove off early in the morning to the distant university.
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'If you set up a valid experiment such as ours and then police it from the outside as if it was some fifth-form trip, you learn nothing about the people involved.
Dead Famous Elton, Ben 2001
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