I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a junior champion
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The cycling team includes British junior champion, Andrew Wright.
a junior position
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I left school and was offered a junior position in a bank.
a junior post
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He was offered a junior post in a bank.
a senior/junior employee
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The company also offers substantial bonuses to senior employees.
a senior/junior member (= with a higher or lower rank )
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A senior member of the government has resigned.
junior college
junior high school
junior partner (= less important group )
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The group is a junior partner in the PLO’s governing coalition.
junior school
junior varsity
senior/junior rank
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He held a junior rank in the infantry.
senior/junior staff
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I have taken on board the comments of my senior staff.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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There were more junior officials around them, and Pink was the centre of attention.
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A: Historically, do the smaller airlines have more junior pilots?
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Finally, on June 29, Pérez accepted the resignations of six Cabinet ministers and five more junior government members.
most
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Invite the most junior person in your department to sit in on your executive meeting.
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We were the two most junior warrant officers in the company.
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Abdullah was the equivalent of a constable, the most junior career rank, almost on a par with conscripts.
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Unfortunately, circumcision is often delegated to the most junior surgeons and its potential morbidity underestimated.
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Today, he is hiding behind the most junior available Minister in another Department.
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At the most junior level there are the students, about whom we have spoken already.
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The most junior of these acts as a regional supervisor who manages the activities of area staff.
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Again the most senior teachers in schools are the least negative in this regard and the most junior the most negative.
very
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No-one has enjoyed such popularity over such a wide range of colleagues from the very junior to the very senior.
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I don't know who it was made the decision, I was only a very junior Producer.
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It was to this great tradition, though as a self-confessedly very junior follower, that Lewis quite easily and naturally belonged.
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He was a young and hopeful solicitor, still very junior in the practice.
■ NOUN
champion
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The most impressive winner of the afternoon was North-East junior champion Michael Threadgill.
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He was also second in the Yorkshire Championships at Harrogate and is currently junior champion of Yorkshire.
championship
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Simon, a reserve for the world junior championship this month, won the junior men's event.
clerk
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Payments are probably dealt with by some junior clerk who applies his or her own interpretation of what the company wants.
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He was junior clerk under Peter Marro.
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Before the Treasury was rehoused at the end of Whitehall its junior clerks were scratching here at their ledgers.
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The junior clerk in the Profitboss's team is a prospect.
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Each of these six departments had two or three clerks or junior clerks to assist them in the work.
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It was not long before he had found a position in the same firm for young Joseph, as a junior clerk .
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He first appears in the records as a junior clerk or singing-man in Henry VI's chapel royal, in 1441.
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He's prepared to help whoever he meets, be it a trade union leader, a consultant or a junior clerk .
club
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Even junior clubs were holding on to their players.
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And what a great innovation the Provincial Insurance Cup for junior clubs has been.
colleague
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Football columnist Ralph the Rover, for example, and his junior colleague Wanderer.
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Very few fully appreciated their profound influence on their junior colleagues .
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Together the three senior men debriefed their two junior colleagues for several hours.
college
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In Quebec, this was adapted to cover late secondary, junior college , and university work.
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It was a great gallery for a junior college .
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Four defensive starters are freshmen, two others are sophomores, and another is a first-year junior college transfer.
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Cal has only one other kicker in junior college transfer Tim Wolleck, whom Brache beat out during fall camp.
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Junior Dan Nash, a 6-0 junior college transfer from Pierce College, is the setter.
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Since 1961, the new junior college had been making do with the evening hours at Chula Vista High School.
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Two rows behind the bench sits a sweet-faced junior college girl who just announced her intention to play for Oregon next year.
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A junior college recruit she had great hopes for is not coming along fast enough.
doctor
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We have acted to reduce the long hours worked by junior doctors in hospitals.
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But many junior doctors are unhappy about what they have seen of the new deal so far.
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One was a junior doctor at a London hospital with pale skin and frizzy hair.
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Medical students and junior doctors seek it.
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Firstly, many junior doctors have little understanding of what medical research is all about.
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Discuss with junior doctors how to allocate extra resources to reduce hours.
high
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At first it feels like high school, then junior high, and finally grade school.
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It stays together throughout the students' two junior high and four high school years at Thayer.
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In junior high I worked on the school newspaper and made cartoons.
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By junior high , she knew she wanted to play college ball.
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At this point, going to junior high is expensive enough.
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Before long, the junior highs were competing for students.
management
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He wanted to be considered for junior management positions but his company was not sure of his ability to make this step.
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As a result there was only a vestigial junior management system.
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Everywhere negative feelings were expressed about supervisors and junior management as a role.
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Crusaders fifth Dubliner John Cleary has gone into junior management down south.
member
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Plain hospital beds with flock mattresses laid on interlaced wire springs were for the junior members of the staff.
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Teenagers were allowed in the project as junior members of the regular rural work force.
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The paper had been running a series of articles on junior members of the Government and it was Berowne's turn.
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He was determined to resurrect the Liberalism of Cambridge, and turn it into a force among junior members of the university.
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It had to be known by employees to do their jobs and was widely known by relatively junior members of staff.
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An all-out attack by a junior on a senior at a meeting is usually costly, especially if the junior member wins.
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There have also been a few cases where junior members have successfully challenged senior colleagues in contests for sub committee chairmanships.
minister
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Smith, admitting he had an unreported business relationship with the department store owner, resigned as junior minister for Northern Ireland.
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Mrs Thatcher duly sacked the junior minister , space enthusiast Geoffrey Pattie.
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He was a few weeks short of his fiftieth birthday, a somewhat elderly junior minister .
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Trouble began when a mistaken claim by a junior Minister persuaded many people to stop buying eggs.
nurse
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This secures extra teaching for the junior nurse , and the senior student will herself learn from this role.
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The junior nurse should also be involved in teaching.
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To a junior nurse it may appear that surgical nursing is negative in its aims.
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During training the student will learn from many teachers, and the junior nurse can be confused by apparent differences and contradictions.
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As a junior nurse it is important that you receive extra instruction and practice under supervision before caring for these patients.
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A junior nurse would probably believe her.
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A strike by junior nurses , soon after the election, had ended after the government promised to review their case.
officer
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At least 20 of the rebel junior officers who staged the uprising surrendered by late afternoon.
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Beginning with the junior officer present, all voted to surrender but two...
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I served with Marks before the war and he showed great promise even as a junior officer .
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He refused evacuation until he was certain his junior officer was in control of the situation.
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Ron McGregor, a junior officer with me on Vincent was not a regular Commander of the new Vigilant.
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Twice he had seriously wounded men in duels, and finally he had run another junior officer through in a tavern brawl.
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In March 1988, a group of junior officers attempted a coup.
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A junior officer was suspended from duty following the May 12 incidents.
official
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There were more junior officials around them, and Pink was the centre of attention.
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Senior officials have a duty to protect junior officials and to set standards for those lower down.
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If this advice had come only from junior officials , he might have been able to over-rule it.
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While there, they briefly met junior officials in the Bush campaign.
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In some unions, officials may then exert position power and give instructions to members or junior officials.
partner
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The plaintiff was the senior partner and the defendant the junior partner.
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Through the oil cartels, the United States dealt some stinging slaps to its junior partners .
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This was J.P. Morgan's forerunner and whose junior partner was Pierpont.
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But to be an ally of the West is of course to be a junior partner .
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The Church drew ever closer to the State but became a distinctly junior partner .
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The resumption has shaken the Green party, the junior partner in Chancellor Gerhard Schro der's coalition.
school
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Phil Fearon, the soul singer, went to junior school with me.
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Abingdon junior school could now be on the road to a Wembley final in a national six-a-side competition.
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Your child's pre-school days and infant and junior school years are vital in his future development.
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Some junior school Heads think it is a waste of good scholarship studying time.
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Shanti made many friends in junior school .
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There were three or four cars lined up outside the junior school gates.
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Think of life on earth as junior school and the spirit as the pupil.
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I was in one home for three years when I was at junior school .
staff
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To assist and encourage and supervise where appropriate junior staff in the proper performance of their duties.
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The inexperience of the junior staff was not accidental.
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In the meantime, if you want to ask questions, come to me, not to my junior staff .
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More junior staff came, who were to be a great help to us.
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Writing of definitions and selection of illustrative quotations by junior staff .
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The art of palpating for a pyloric mass should be taught by experienced senior staff to junior staff and students.
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I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same.
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Some suppliers' representatives are highly adept at pressurising junior staff into placing orders.
team
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Many ex-international union players are still turning out every Saturday for junior teams .
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Wilkinson was switched when a player in a Grimsby junior team was injured.
varsity
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We had cheerleaders for varsity football and boys basketball and even junior varsity cheerleaders for both teams.
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The student was beaten outside the cafeteria while using the phone after a junior varsity football practice.
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At the time, Iacenda was 14 years old and in the ninth grade, playing on the junior varsity team.
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Mary's he played junior varsity lacrosse.
year
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He did better junior year , despite the fact that he spent nearly all of it arguing with the priests.
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I look older than I am, at the butt end of my junior year of high school.
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When he took the SATs in his junior year , he scored an even 1600.
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His junior year at Boulder High I went to all his home soccer games.
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He showed dramatic improvement from his junior year to his senior year.
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During the second semester of her junior year , Maggie had what was to prove to be a very positive experience.
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Students in the program participate in three progressive summer internships, starting after their junior year in high school.
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My junior year , I was one step higher.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a junior partner
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She started work as a junior reporter on a local newspaper.
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The most junior officers wore a red stripe on their sleeves.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At first it feels like high school, then junior high, and finally grade school.
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At least 20 of the rebel junior officers who staged the uprising surrendered by late afternoon.
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By 1990, District 4 boasted 21 junior high schools, plus six alternative grade schools.
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He started to learn the bagpipes at the age of nine and won several junior prizes.
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He was also second in the Yorkshire Championships at Harrogate and is currently junior champion of Yorkshire.
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In junior high, she refined them, sent them off to contests, then scribbled more.
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In my junior year a friend, a fledgling pilot, taught me the basics of handling a small plane.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
school
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I signed up for Naval service when I was a high school junior in 1974 and was put on delayed enlistment.
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Many states already have options that allow high school juniors and seniors to take courses at public colleges and universities for credit.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a junior at NYU
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Donna spent spring semester of her junior year in Paris.
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He was replaced by a young graduate, 10 years his junior .
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Sarah is six years my junior .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even if it s one of the juniors pissing around on their computer and modem.
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I find it tough to delegate my work to juniors, to the associates.
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Joann was a junior and had a beautiful singing voice.
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More than 30 players, including juniors and novices will be competing.
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Otton, the junior who shared time with Kyle Wachholtz at quarterback, started and did not relinquish the position.
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The good behaviour of our own Club members are still attending with some of the older juniors replacing retiring senior members.
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The other reason she had disappeared with the juniors was that it kept her out of Jack's way.