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  • I asked "the girls" (our somewhat sizeable circle of gay male friends) if they knew of a collective noun for "hons" - like a pride of lions, a gaggle of geese, a congress of baboons

    Baltiblogs 2009

  • The Hampden neighborhood features dozens of boutiques and antique shops and celebrates "hons," a local word to describe women who style their hair in beehive shapes.

    On the Waterfront in Baltimore, Md. 2010

  • However, long hours in the labs left him little time for his beloved cricket, and so he switched to history, philosophy, Persian and Urdu, graduating with a first-class BA hons.

    Samuel Martin Burke obituary Reginald Massey 2010

  • I think some of the others may be genuine sceptics, but it's pretty embarrassing that you couldn't put together a list of 7, let alone 700, genuine sceptics. david elder, b. sc.hons in science

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • H: Honours level (third year undergraduate, BA, BA (hons))

    Levelling up (no, nothing to do with Warcraft, but you'll wish it were...) Jonathan 2006

  • Just in time for me being in first year of a potential joint hons sociology/anthropology degree!

    Glutton For Punishment Hal Duncan 2006

  • Quant l'enfant ot levee une des seetes, le sages hons fist traire ariere toutes les autres generacions; et fu establi en tel maniere que la generacion dont l'en devoit faire roy esliroient entre leur LII des plus sages homes et des meilleurs que il avroient.

    learning languages with music, medieval turn-ons 2008

  • Quant l'enfant ot levee une des seetes, le sages hons fist traire ariere toutes les autres generacions; et fu establi en tel maniere que la generacion dont l'en devoit faire roy esliroient entre leur LII des plus sages homes et des meilleurs que il avroient.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • H: Honours level (third year undergraduate, BA, BA (hons))

    Archive 2006-02-01 Jonathan 2006

  • Aelred is training to be a magistrate; Ailish, still part-time at the special-needs school, is dearly loved by the teenagers; Crispin does extramural police work in London; Cordelia (hons degree, Warwick) has also switched tracks and is training to teach ballet, Araminta continues with top grades in classics at London Uni; Roberta continues to make her own stunning 'designer' clothes for a hobby (wish I was her size, for discards!)

    A must-have book Jenny Davidson 2005

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