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Oxford

Oxford is a city in England.

oxford

a low shoe laced over the instep

Oxford

a city in southern England to the northwest of London; site of Oxford University a university town in northern Mississippi; home of William Faulkner (= Oxford University) a university in England

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Oxford University England

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Simple sentences

I am a student at Oxford University.
Is this the bus to Oxford?
When did you graduate from Oxford?
How long are you going to stay in Oxford?
My friend Mike is studying chemistry at Oxford University.
He read English Literature at Oxford University.
Dr. Hawking was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis while at Oxford.
It was at Oxford University that Tom studied history.
John is professor of French literature at Oxford and his wife is French.
The Oxford crew appeared secure of victory.
He read physics at Oxford.
The Oxford comma is awkward, unnecessary, and cannot be carried over to languages other than English.
Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942 in Oxford, England.
The University of Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. It was established since 1096.

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And what are these, Oxford commas?
They tell me you studied at Oxford University.
Queer story, that young Oxford chap he had with him going mad.
Well, I was at Oxford.
Freddie's got a brother from Oxford.
As I was saying, I got off the bus and I suddenly remembered that Vin was due down from Oxford tomorrow.
Well, this last year at Oxford, I've rather changed my outlook on things.
Do you know what Oxford taught me?
He's just down from Oxford.
They're clever. Some goes to Oxford and learns to speak English just as good as what you and me do.
It was taken when he was at Harvard just before he went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar.
Oxford medicine by Christian.
An old Oxford friend of mine.
A brilliant young Irishman out of Oxford.
In the meantime, Henk van de Huist received an invitation from Oxford to give the famous Halley Lecture in May 1953.
After Van de Hulst's Oxford Lecture a second survey started in November 1953.
Grenoble, then Oxford.
Really? You studied in Oxford and you can't speak English.
Then drive directly to your lodgings by way of Oxford Circus.
The details of his private life were effortless studied by VonBock who was three years at Oxford and had a perfect knowledge of the English language and English habits.
You may not know it but I was expelled from Oxford. Really?
There's a scholarship going at Oxford. Oxford? They have agreed to take this boy on one condition.
Ron, I am entering Morgan Evans for a scholarship to Oxford University and the Squire is going to vouch for him.
Halellujah! - But they don't have miners at Oxford.
Good night, Ron. - Good night. I'm putting you in for a scholarship at Oxford.
Oxford? Where the lords go? The same.
I'm at Oxford, you know.
Oh, Oxford.
I've never been to Oxford.
Nice place, Oxford.
I was properly fed up at Oxford.
Oxford?
You may not know it but I was expelled from Oxford.
IT'S THE NEW OXFORD DICTIONARY.
Yes, I sent her to Oxford to get an education and all she comes back with is a passion for donkey-tailed doves and modernistic music.
I doubt if he got fat at Oxford.
I was window-shopping in Oxford Street, daydreaming about what I'd buy for her, if I had any money.
I can cut through to Oxford Street from your place.

News and current affairs

OXFORD - When one state is preponderant in power resources, observers often refer to the situation as hegemonic.
OXFORD - George W. Bush is approaching the end of his presidency mired in low popularity ratings, which partly reflects his policies in the Middle East.
LONDON - The economic historian Niall Ferguson reminds me of the late Oxford historian A.J.P. Taylor.
His son's expensive lifestyle as a student at Oxford and Harvard has been described in lavish detail in the press.
In a heartbeat, Cameron (who himself studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford, having previously attended that bastion of classical education, Eton) has signed away Britain's global influence.
Tertiary education's pivotal importance in emerging markets was emphasized at a recent symposium that I chaired at Green Templeton College, Oxford.
PRINCETON - Forty years ago, I stood with a few other students in a busy Oxford street handing out leaflets protesting the use of battery cages to hold hens.
I should be boring my children, and the students at Oxford University where I am Chancellor, with grumbles about how everything is going to the dogs.
OXFORD - Over the last few decades, the International Monetary Fund has learned six important lessons about how to manage government debt crises.
Investigators at Oxford University conduct an overview every five years of the many adjuvant treatments now available, and this report points to some clear conclusions.
Before the Oxford overview, American oncologists typically did not recommend tamoxifen for young patients while Europeans often recommended it for all patients including those whose tumors lacked the requisite receptors.
As an outgrowth of the Oxford findings, there is a more consistent approach now and evidence of improving outcomes.
Even the world's great universities, from Harvard to Oxford, are seeing fewer Japanese students.
Last month, the British writer David Irving, who was jailed in Austria for Holocaust denial, had the bizarre distinction of defending free speech in a debate at the Oxford Union.
Xu Zerong, a social scientist trained at Harvard and Oxford, is serving a 13-year sentence in Guangdong Province for photocopying materials on Chinese military tactics during the 1950-53 Korean War.
OXFORD - It was recently discovered that the universe's expansion is accelerating, not slowing, as was previously thought.
OXFORD - The growing Muslim presence in Europe has become a central issue for all European countries, east and west.
Widely publicized in recent years by Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, the new synthesis unites Darwin's theory of natural selection with Mendelian genetics, which explains heredity.
OXFORD - The last few decades of globalization and innovation have resulted in the most rapid progress that the world has ever known.
OXFORD - Where does America put God?
At the end of my years at Oxford, I went as a student to the United States and visited Alabama.
After withering literary assaults on the Almighty from the Oxford academic Richard Dawkins, the essayist Christopher Hitchens, and others, believers have hit back.
Most thinkers back then accepted the Arab estimates that the universe was two hundred million miles across, which is enough room to swing quite a few cats--or Oxford atheists!
In 1966 the secret police made me an offer they thought I couldn't refuse: if I collaborated, they would drop me by parachute over England and arrange for me to study at Oxford.

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