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- Jul 29, 2006
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- Spencers Wood, near Reading, UK
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- Retired English Teacher
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- English
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- UK
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- UK
Doh! I see. The trouble with 'first' and 'class' is that they form a very strong collocation. So you need to break them up. 'First ever boycott of their classes' is possible, but I'm not sure 'classes' is the right word. Perhaps it could be in American English; but British students in their late-teens/early-20s (in my experience) have 'lectures', 'seminars', 'tutorials', 'supervisions'... - but rarely 'classes'....As for the boycott, they were boycotting their classes (but I am sure you know that by now). (It was not a first class boycott in the sense of being a really good one, but the first time that had happened.)
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Note that those options aren't 1:1 synonyms. They vary in structure and organization, from course to course.
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