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IOW1
- Internetabbreviationinitialismnot comparableInitialism of in other words.
IoW2
- Alternative letter-case form of IOW (“Isle of Wight”).
True, Woodstock and the IoW festivals wowed audiences, particularly Hendrix at Woodstock and Dylan at IoW sixty-nine.
2022, Clive Radford, “Monterey and Cannery Row”, in Desolation Argonauts, Rogue Phoenix Press, →ISBN2 more examples
Within the set of ten LEAs this ranges from zero in the IoW, explained no doubt by its pattern of middle schools, to 64 per cent in Sunderland.
1997, Alison Bullock, Hywel Thomas, Schools at the Centre?: A Study of Decentralisation, Routledge, →ISBN, page 171Second, the IoW had a total population of about 100,000, which we reckoned was about right for studying common disorders.
2014, Michael Rutter, “Establishing Developmental Psychopathology”, in Richard M. Lerner, Anne C. Petersen, Rainer K. Silbereisen, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, editors, The Developmental Science of Adolescence: History Through Autobiography, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 418, column 2
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