As children were assumed to spend weekends and holidays with parents, no school-related clothing was included.
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The second cause was due to public and statutory holidays.
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In addition to public holidays, one day a month was lost for machine servicing.
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On the holidays, wherever he camped, one hundred tents would join him.
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They protested over immediate or relatively shortterm issues like ad hoc demands over wage hikes, holidays, dismissals or restoration of allowances.
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Moreover, there are 52 weeks in a year, and excluding holidays and planned and unplanned downtime, there were approximately 50 possible procedure weeks per year.
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Across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the number of religious holidays was gradually reduced, sometimes by the state and sometimes by the churches themselves.
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Education and holidays also feature largely in this selection of theses on children and cities.
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Except for limitations on work on religious holidays, official regulation of the daily and weekly round declined.
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Thus, a trade union might offer discounts on holidays to its members, and threaten non-members with ostracism.
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Events like remembering visits by relatives, birthdays or holidays were used by another 18 % to aid memory.
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We asked children about their school, family, home, holidays, and medical history.
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She says they ' caught up ' at weekends and on holidays.
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Which friend did the man repair the roof for during the holidays?
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Which ladder did the man repair the roof with during the holidays?
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Collocationswithholiday
holiday
These are words often used in combination withholiday.
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annual holiday
For example, the non-resident parent is assumed to take his contact children on hisannualholiday.
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extended holiday
Some people will want to let their houses for less than 12 months; for example, when on anextendedholidayor when working abroad.
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happy holiday
It is therefore my pleasant task to join in wishing everyone ahappyholiday.
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