crèche
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Forbes has since criticised the Scottish Parliament's crèche facilities, which are only available for three hours a day from Tuesday to Thursday.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025
Mr. Rave says that this crèche is unusually large.
From NewsForKids.net ● May 7, 2024
Plus, in the year of the epidemic, she appreciated that there was something otherworldly, but also empathetic, about a crèche that had endured natural disasters and scorn.
From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2020
Eighteenth-century terra-cotta angels in silk robes deck the tree’s boughs, and an elaborate crèche re-creating the bustle of life in the port city of Naples sprawls at its base.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 16, 2018
The older children from the crèche are walking into the theater.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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“I’ve seen crèches up to 35 and 50 often, but 70 — that would be a very big crèche,” he told the New York Times.
From NewsForKids.net ● May 7, 2024
Nathalie Vaillant, a psychologist who helps train early childhood workers, including at Paris-area crèches, thinks 2 is simply too young for school.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2017
It is her description of the nativity scene that has been adapted by most Renaissance artists, and appears today in the countless crèches that abound the world over.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2016
France’s pro-natalist policies, historically inspired by the need to breed soldiers to keep Germany at bay, guarantee Scandinavian levels of spending on family benefits and crèches.
From Economist ● May 26, 2016
In mid-1973 there were crèches for children from infancy to three years of age.
From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Violeta D. Baluyut
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