Sometimes we have flag days; sometimes we have coffee mornings; sometimes we have sponsored marathons.
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There will be flag days, striptease artists, bingo and all the rest.
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Organised as a specialflagday, approximately 40,000 children assembled at 11 parks and plazas throughout the city and saluted the flag in special ceremonies.
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We have aflagdaywhich is not a lottery.
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We consider it necessary to prohibit young girls from standing in streets on aflagday—a very desirable regulation, grandmotherly or otherwise.
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We did away with a "flagday" health service many years ago.
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Our children are in the hands of people who have aflagdaymentality.
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There has never been aflagday.
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I gather it was felt undesirable that a society whose objects are a matter of some public controversy should be included amongst those participating in this particularflagday.
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In our attitude towards this topic we may come to regard it as something to be dealt with purely by a sort of charitable response; aflagdayattitude.
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On aflagday, volunteers with some stock of flags and a bag to collect donation (money) stand on streets to raise funds from passers-by.
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By the 18th century, the ceremony had changed to a glorifiedflagday.
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Flag days are usually codified in national statutes, however, in some countries a decree by the head of state can also order aflagday.
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It is a logical consequence of the legislation, which so successfully in the last 20 years has dealt with the subject of flag days.
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We are returning to flag days to raise funds for the health service.
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