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词汇 example_english_first-class-letter
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first-class letter

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meanings of first classand letter


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first-class
adjective
uk /ˌfɜːst ˈklɑːs/ us /ˌfɝːst ˈklæs/
excellent:
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letter
noun[C]
uk /ˈlet.ər/ us /ˈlet̬.ɚ/
a written message from one person to another, usually put in an envelope and sent ...
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Examples of first-class letter


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We cannot eliminate all causes of delay to mail, but we will do our best to make the first-classletter service reliable.
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The strike affected first-classletter performance in particular for some months.
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One first-classletter in 10 is now late.
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This is particularly important for electors who cannot afford the 7p needed for a first-classletter.
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We hear that it is not unusual, for instance, for a first-classletter to take two days to deliver.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
I represent a constituency which contains a large number of poor people who cannot afford the 7p which is required for a first-classletter.
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What, for instance, is the real cost of a first-classletter as compared with a printed paper package?
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
I come to the question of why we proposed to raise so much money on the first-classletter.
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Nothing but an increase of this order on the first-classletter service would have raised the necessary revenue.
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Unfortunately, it took two days for a first-classletter to reach my home, which is about 150 miles from here.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Achieving its basic core business of delivering a first-classletter the next day is simply evading that failure.
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People who use gas heating can switch to electricity, but if one uses the first-classletter post, one cannot do much by switching to pigeon post.
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Hansard archive

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A rural community dweller can post a first-classletter for 19p and no one considers that it should be otherwise even though the postman has to go a long way.
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Several months after the series appeared, however, the first-classletter rate was raised from 2 cents to 3 cents.
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The 15-cent denomination paid the new domestic rate that had recently increased from 13-cents two months earlier for a first-classletter weighing less than half ounce.
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He told me that the collection was taken into the office, and first-class letters taken to the sorting department at once.
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The figures show that getting on for nine out of 10 first-class letters are delivered the following day.
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Second-class letters are usually date-stamped and sorted some hours after collection; first-class letters take priority at all times.
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