Sentence examples for distant colleges from inspiring English sources

Among that group were several students taking midterm exams at distant colleges, a professional musician on tour and one man whose lawyer said he could not attend because he was in the middle of a hunger strike in Washington.

Coming out of high school, he turned down numerous offers to play at other distant colleges so he could remain close to an older brother confined to a wheelchair.

When the six-game Yankee Collegiate Football Conference season ends next month, team organizers plan to gather high school transcripts, use retired teachers as tutors for standardized testing and send game videos to local and distant colleges hoping to make connections.

In cases of relocations from family homes to distant colleges, participants described seeing a host of non-specialist providers such as family doctors during school breaks, and, at college clinics, ever-changing collections of general medicine physicians, nurses, and student practitioners in training.

The next oldest boy, Buddy, who'd been very close to Seymour, now lived in a distant college town - teaching & writing.

Her mother was a widow hard pressed to feed and clothe her 11 children (six lived to adulthood), so Grandma borrowed money from a Man (the word always was capitalized as she spoke it) banker "at 3percentt interest" and went off to a distant college to earn a teaching degree.

The growing popularity of colleges' virtual tours is relieving some of the financial burden prospective students face when planning visits to distant college campuses.

As a teenager I wanted to become a farmer, then a photographer, then a journalist, then a language specialist and so on... Eventually when I got to the age of 18 I decided that a tourism education at a not too distant college was the right path for me.

Among them, incidentally, are the highly sought-after hordes of young men and women with dot-com incomes who are ready to shed beer-bottle tastes from their not-so-distant college days for the best from the vineyards.

The acerbic, gay Alan Glenn Fitzgeraldd), another friend they've all known since their now-distant college days, is more interested in rooting through the cupboards to find a last bottle of wine, but he's game too.

In the not-too-distant future, college looms, and families a few steps ahead tell me that April 15 will soon mean fat and thin envelopes to me once again.