He established what would today be called a day nursery.
Mothers leave their small children in the day nursery during the day while they go out to work.
The furniture in a day nursery should consist of a toy cupboard stained to match the color scheme of the room and large enough for each child to have his own special compartment in it.
They were scattered about the bright day nursery, looking miserable, though they could scarcely tell why.
We're building a day nursery on the next block to help the working women.
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Between 1987 and 2001 the number of child-minder anddaynurseryplaces increased from 223 to 642,000.
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She was the only one among the interviewed women who had placed her son in adaynursery.
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In the social servicedaynurserysomething was wrong.
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At one nursery school and at the voluntarydaynursery, almost all the children came from low-income homes.
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The experiment was carried out either at the child's home, or at thedaynursery, indoors, under natural day light, avoiding either direct sunlight or excessive shade.
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After a few days, she leaves her children at thedaynursery.
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Seven, of which one is being carried on as adaynursery.
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I regret that information on the maximum weekly charges fordaynurseryplaces made by individual authorities is not collected centrally.
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It occurs to me that adaynurseryis likely to be a secular place.
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There is a high correlation between traditional nursery school provision anddaynurseryand pre-school playgroup provision.
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We must remember that parents already pay when their children go to adaynursery.
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What will be the net saving to the ratepayers by halving the presentdaynurseryaccommodation of 4,000 to approximately 2,000?
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In 1994, there were 147,600daynurseryplaces—double the number in 1984.
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I hope she will extend that kind of argument towards thedaynursery.
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The number ofdaynurseryplaces provided by local authorities increased from 24,552 in 1974 to 28,630 in 1983, which is quite an encouraging improvement.
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