So it was that in the summer of 1999, having experienced a local club called Essence (gurning girls in bras and Nike visors, cold water taps shut off, windows locked, two large fans and a smattering of Class A drugs), a group of us headed off to local Suffolk farmland owned by an older school colleague for what would become one of the defining points of my youth.
One ray of hope: A smattering of writing classes is available through correspondence from a few accredited universities.
Recently I left my own kitchen to enroll in a smattering of cooking classes across the state.
After a smattering of art classes, Mr. Daly took a job at the bulk and foreign mail center in Jersey City.
But every Premier League team needs a smattering of top-class attacking talent - and Howe's newly-promoted Bournemouth are no different.
Unable to call on talented youngsters from satellite republics, Russia now finds itself with only a smattering of world-class players; certainly not enough to fill out a full 11-a-side team.
"Thornwood is a smattering of middle-class and hard-working executives who have a more realistic bent to their lives than other places in Westchester," Mrs. Gill-Charest said.
Hundreds of billions of dollars of short-term loans have been flowing into the country from investors in search of higher yielding assets, financing the very malls and skyscrapers that have so dismayed the small but growing coalition of secular intellectuals, left-of-center political activists and a smattering of the professional classes.
Third, many high schools have just a smattering of honors or Advanced Placement classes, sometimes populated by kids who are bright but not truly prepared to succeed in them.
Yes, there's the down-there stuff going on, crowning, then a head ("Oh, God, this is ghastly," wails poor Robert), plus a smattering of real urban grit – class As, the odd naughty word and so on.
