Example sentences of "[noun] stay [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Sixty per cent of 16 year-olds stay on in full-time education , up from only 40 per cent in 1979 .
2 75 per cent of 16 year-olds stay on in full-time education or Youth Training schemes , up from 46 per cent in 1979 .
3 Andrew Stavanger stayed on as managing director of the shipping company , with a seat on the board of the group .
4 Several authorities increased their maintenance allowances , paid to the children of very poor families to stay on at secondary school , –5 to compensate for the failure to raise the school leaving age to fifteen , scheduled to take place in 1939 , but held back by the war .
5 The percentage of young people staying on in full-time education after the legal minimum leaving age has increased during the last decade , as Figure 12.1 shows .
6 Compared to our competitors , not enough of our young people stay on to post-compulsory education .
7 The general trend appears to have been towards making it more difficult for people to stay on in full-time employment after 65 ( Heron and Chown 1961 ) .
8 Only 35 per cent of young people in Britain stay on in full time education and training .
9 As we have seen , children staying longer in formal education appear to acquire more political knowledge than those leaving school earlier .
10 Repeated warnings are given to the peasants to stay away from passing traffic .
11 After his party 's heavy defeat in the subsequent general election , Ellis stayed on as chief whip .
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