The phrase "fine students" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a group of student that are doing well in their studies. For example, "The teachers at the school are very proud of their fine students."
But the students he sees who are most interested in the sport "tend to have really good grade-point averages and be really fine students," he said.
On the first day of class, Professor Abrahamson threatened to fine students $20 for every cellphone ring in class and warned that latecomers would be jeered.
At the top end, Stanford, which is a private university, and Berkeley, which is not, continue to produce fine students, but enrolment in public universities and colleges has been declining in the past few years.
A more important regret is that while the MIT course evaluations rate me as a pretty good lecturer, I have not yet succeeded in generating a string of really fine students, the kind who reflect glory on their teacher.
My words are not in any way an attempt to diminish the accomplishments of the many fine students who follow a more conventional path in school, and fit the traditional expectations of school personnel.
Hats off to the fine students at the Vancouver Film School who produced this film.
Ben Carson was a fine student and an exceptional doctor.
A fine student, he devoured books and could sight-read music from an early age.
September 25 2010 American premières are a regular occurrence in Joel Sachs's concerts with his fine student ensemble.
(Schweitzer) Axiom (Friday) Jeffrey Milarsky leads the fine student players of this assured Juilliard contemporary-classical ensemble in a cornerstone of the modern repertory, Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1, and two more recent works, Oliver Knussen's "Coursing" and Charles Wuorinen's "Cyclops 2000".
But though the conductors who work with the Juilliard School's fine student ensembles often attract big audiences, they are here mainly for pedagogical purposes and only secondarily for the listeners.
