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01. A [section] of the highway was closed for over four hours today after a truck collided with a tour bus just outside of Springfield .
02. One [section] of the tutorial facility is used for pronunciation practice.
03. Once you have begun the second [section] of the test, you cannot go back to the first.
04. The grammar notes appear in the back [section] of the book.
05. Would you like a seat in the non-smoking [section]?
06. The most difficult [section] of the exam was the vocabulary part.
07. They have identified one [section] of the population as being susceptible to the disease.
08. The thumb is such a major player in the human body that it has a special [section] separate from the area that controls the fingers reserved for it in the brain.
09. The Boeing 767 aircraft is a collection of 3.1 million parts from 800 different suppliers around the world: fuselage parts from Japan, center wing [section] from Southern California, and flaps from Italy.
10. The only crime defined in the U.S. Constitution is treason; Article III, [Section] 3.
11. Most second language textbooks have grammar tables either in each [section] or at the end of the book.
12. For dessert, we had [sections] of mandarin oranges dipped in melted chocolate.
13. The island of Cyprus is divided into two [sections]: Greek and Turkish.
14. The southern [section] of Ghana was controlled by Europeans for more than a century.
15. After winning at Wimbledon, African-American tennis player Althea Gibson remarked that shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored [section] of the bus.
16. The first [section] of the New York City subway was opened in 1900 after four years of work.
17. A good Internet website has information divided into small [sections].
18. The triathlon consists of three [sections]: running, swimming and cycling.
19. Someone once joked that having a smoking [section] in a restaurant is like having a peeing [section] in a swimming pool.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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