Sentence examples for lower sets from inspiring English sources

Moreover, it found that poorer children were more likely to be placed in lower sets, creating a vicious circle.

Menzies said there could also be an issue for summer-born children who could be almost a year younger than some peers and could wrongly be put in lower sets and labelled as weaker pupils.

They were a particularly wildly mixed bunch, as lower sets always are, and Priya, doe-eyed in hijab, just arrived from a bankrupt religious school, was quiet as a shadow among them.

Most of the time I've been in pretty well-behaved classes because I've generally been in the higher sets, and it's more of a problem in the lower sets.

The bank then took one of the lower sets of tranches, consisting, say, of BBB bonds, repackaged them as a new instrument, and magically rated perhaps eighty per cent of them AAA.

They are labelled, buried in lower sets, consigned as often as not to indifferent teaching.

Remove lower set of leaves and soft tip from four-inch-long nonflowering shoot cuttings.

Issuance of such bonds — those ranked BB or lower — set a record last year, according to Standard & Poor's.

Once planted, nip back the tip with your thumbnails to a lower set of leaves, and you will get a nicely branching plant.

Have we reached the stage where we would apply a lower set of safeguards to migrants than we might apply to ourselves?

But now, a manganese-cobalt battery pack provides 20 minutes of life if you stick to the lower setting, 5 minutes more than an earlier model.