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1. I don’t have enough warm work clothes in my wardrobe. I should’ve bought some more thermal shirts when I was shopping on Thursday.
2. We ought to defer the auction until we’ve accurately determined the commercial worth of the portrait.
3. I’ve worked out that getting a mortgage is a better alternative to paying high rent every month– although I’ll have to ask my parents to be guarantors, as I certainly can’t afford the initial deposit.
4. The University of Birmingham was the first to create a purpose-built student union building and to provide a hall of residence reserved for women only.
5. Of course, the word frankfurter comes from Frankfurt in Germany. It describes a thin pork sausage, which is heated in hot water before serving. This sort of sausage has been around since the 13th century.
6. Marie Curie, born in Warsaw, was awarded two Nobel Prizes for her research into radioactivity. The International Year of Chemistry was organised by the UN in 2011 in order to celebrate the anniversary of her birth.