Sentence examples for couple of grades from inspiring English sources

Although not a knockout, this one is a couple of grades above the typical loft/showroom structure, set apart by the simple but inventive zigzag detailing at the third-floor level.

Ms. Montague skipped a couple of grades, crossed the pond and went to university at 16. Ultimately, however, Ms. Montague figured that her odds of getting to space as a NASA astronaut were thin.

In "Complex Calculations on Academics" (news article, July 16), you suggest that Edison's performance rating system is flawed because it relies on average gains made by students in all grade levels and all subjects, when an average could be misleadingly high by great gains in a couple of grades or subjects.

We were in the same class in the first couple of grades in school".

This allowed him to skip a couple of grades along the way, so that he graduated from Leavenworth High School in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, at the age of 15.

Try and make friends with someone who is a couple of grades ahead of you.

Prior to that race, Chad Brown's runner had shown only reasonable form in a couple of Grade Twos: the Risen Star Stakes at Fair Grounds and the Remsen Stakes at Aqueduct, neither of which suggested that Normandy Invasion was going to make Verrazano roll up his sleeves.

Over the last couple of years, grades have dipped very slightly, and if that continues to happen there will probably be a period of recalibration with offers and grades in general.

He suffered from near blindness until fitted with glasses after entering school, and describes himself as "gripped by all sorts of phobias and anxieties" — but he was deemed sufficiently smart to skip a couple of early grades.

Many states now test students in only a couple of elementary grades, but the law known as No Child Left Behind requires states to test every public school student in third through eighth grades and one high school grade every year.

Uniaxial LCF tests were conducted under strain-control with three strain ratios, R=−1, 0, and 0.5, on a couple of different grades of ADIs.