• Nearly four million school days in England were missed last spring and autumn because parents took children out of school to go on holiday.

    BBC: Millions of school days lost to family holidays

  • It is performed during spring and autumn ceremonies to worship Meng Chang, the god of music, at weddings and funerals, and during joyful festivities in courtyards, markets and the streets.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • According to Mr Howland it is only possible to walk to the tower during the Spring and Autumn low tides and people should not attempt to reach it on their own.

    BBC: Tower of Refuge walk 'attracts thousands'

  • Yangzhou, where Marco Polo once served as a municipal official, has a history of 2, 500 years, dating back to the Spring and Autumn Period in China (771 to 403 BC) when it was called Guangling.

    FORBES: China's Tier 2 and Tier 3 Cities

  • Summer is peak tourist season, but planning a wine tour in the spring and autumn means avoiding the crowds and observing either the first leaves and shoots or witnessing the harvest, with grapes hanging ripe and heavy on the vine.

    BBC: Canada��s wine scene is taking root

  • Men who are horse- and mule-packers during the spring, summer and early autumn have little or no employment in the off-season.

    ECONOMIST: Indian tribes

  • Ideally each vineyard would gather the ingredients for its Steiner preparations from its own soil. (Though it's probably rare that they can manage this 100 percent in practice--most wineries, for one thing, don't have their own cow herds.) There is, for example, the "501, " which specifies ground quartz mixed with rain water, packed into a cow's horn buried in spring and dug up in autumn.

    FORBES: Witchy Wines

  • In autumn and spring, by contrast, stocks usually rise.

    ECONOMIST: The oil price should fall��eventually

  • Continue along Pontocho, past the theatre where geisha perform public dances in autumn and spring, and you will come out near the river again and Sanjo Bridge, where much of young Kyoto is hastening towards a night on the town, or waiting for dates near the temple commemorating 39 noblewomen and children executed along the riverbank.

    BBC: The walk that made me love Japan

  • It praised the site for "an abundance of colour and lush growth packed with many varieties of herbaceous perennials and colourful shrubs ... interest from early spring to late autumn, hellebores, roses, asters and many more".

    BBC: The garden at Ochran Mill

  • Worse, the recent sharp downturn ArtTactic reckons auction sales in China, including Hong Kong, fell 32% between autumn 2011 and spring of this year may prove to be more than just a blip.

    ECONOMIST: Auction houses

  • The plan for Nottingham is that from 2013, children would return to school in late August after a month-long break and then have a two-week break in the autumn, at Christmas, in spring and in late May.

    BBC: Strike pledge over school summer holiday and term changes

  • Our predictions for last autumn, winter and spring have all given accurate advice, giving more confidence in our latest summer forecast.

    BBC: Met Office cools summer forecast

  • Imagine us as Australians, though, and the hyperborean blast must mean a heatwave scorching over from Java's scented isle, just as (though neither actually happens) Father Christmas should arrive half-clad on waterskis, and Easter should recall, to anthropologists, not the Adonis festival and the rebirth of spring but some autumn feast that has lost its way, or why not?

    ECONOMIST: Johnson

  • There was more effect from smoke in the autumn and winter than in spring and summer.

    BBC: Passive smoke greater in the home

  • University students have been found to suffer colds and flus more in autumn than spring.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Magazine | Bugs get the train too

  • Department for Education figures show 0.51% of half-days were missed in the autumn term of 2009 and spring term of 2010 because of family holidays.

    BBC: Millions of school days lost to family holidays

  • But the number of primary school pupils in England missing school without permission in the autumn term of 2009 and spring term of 2010 has risen slightly.

    BBC: Millions of school days lost to family holidays

  • "The branch has been identified as one that could potentially be partnered with a retailer between the autumn of this year and spring of 2015, with any change being subject to a six week public consultation to gather the views of the local community, " said a spokesperson for the Post Office.

    BBC: Carmarthen post office: Rally over 'shop move' worry

  • Last autumn, and again in the spring, China was briefly a net exporter of steel.

    ECONOMIST: Steel industry

  • It grows during autumn and winter and shrinks in the spring and summer.

    CNN: Polar bears resort to cannibalism as Arctic ice shrinks

  • An outline version of the Wales Infrastructure Investment Plan will be published in Spring 2012, with a full version in Autumn 2012 and from then it will be updated quarterly.

    BBC: Finance statement

  • They follow a seasonal pattern reflecting the academic year, with lower rates in the autumn followed by a gradual rise in spring and early summer to a peak in late summer.

    BBC: One in six young people not in education

  • Lima beans were a staple in my mother's New England kitchen, bridging the span between autumn's bounty and the harvest of spring vegetables.

    NPR: Falling in Love with Limas

  • Visitors enter the park via a broad, pebbled avenue lined with twin rows of gingko trees, considered by many to be one of the most beautiful sights in the capital, especially in the autumn when golden leaves cover the path and in spring when the trees turn a fresh green.

    CNN: The Best City Park

  • "I ... would like to remind people that in 1918 the Spanish flu showed a surge in the spring, and then disappeared in the summer months, only to return in the autumn of 1918 with a vengeance, " Hartl said.

    CNN: Confirmed cases of H1N1 virus approach 900

  • In the autumn of 2009, a group of progressive Cold Spring inhabitants got together and formed the Full Moon Project an attempt to counter the new P.

    NEWYORKER: Fox Among the Chickens

  • While the summer is the obvious time to head to the beach, there is something sublime about the crisp sea air on a spring or autumn day when the sands are empty save for the occasional dog walker and jogger.

    BBC: Visiting the Hamptons off season

  • The New Zealand, Polish and Danish versions of the show will make their debut this spring, with the Belgian version following this autumn.

    BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Strictly Come Dancing goes global

  • It may not be able to do much more than elect a new president whose first job would be to dissolve parliament and call elections at the earliest in July, but much more likely in the autumn or perhaps spring.

    BBC: Bumpy ride ahead for Italy after indecisive election

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