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Should we use the definite article with the word "TERM" in the folloing example?
"All students will be tested by the school at the end of TERM.
The sentence is taken from Face2Face, Cambridge, Intermediate. Why there's no "the". Is it that case of set phrases that don't need any articles, like "at class", "at university"? I didn't find such in examples with "term" in grammar books. And moreover, Goole says there are about 143 million examples with "at the end of THE term" rather than with "at the end of term" (about 6 million).
"All students will be tested by the school at the end of TERM.
The sentence is taken from Face2Face, Cambridge, Intermediate. Why there's no "the". Is it that case of set phrases that don't need any articles, like "at class", "at university"? I didn't find such in examples with "term" in grammar books. And moreover, Goole says there are about 143 million examples with "at the end of THE term" rather than with "at the end of term" (about 6 million).