Which preposition to use with classes

of Occurrences 4258%

A certain class of young, impecunious students will always live in that quarter and will always amuse themselves, and they will also always find girls quite ready and happy to enjoy life a little while they are young enough to live in the present, and have no cares for the future.

in Occurrences 683%

They are almost a separate class in Franceare very earnest, religious, honourable, narrow-minded people.

with Occurrences 205%

But if the Boy attended the Bible-class with fervour and aired his heresies with uncommon gusto, if he took with equal geniality Colonel Warren's staid remonstrance and Mac's fiery objurgation, Sunday morning invariably found him more "agnostic" than ever, stoutly declining to recognise the necessity for "service."

as Occurrences 196%

Every man and woman values certain qualities highly, and in proportion as another fails to manifest these particular qualities he is classed as "low," and his society is not valued.

at Occurrences 122%

Cynical members of the upper classes at Ronleigh, who had ceased to patronize the stall, charged Punch with not being over-particular in washing the glasses, and of making the "stuff," as they called it, with cornflour instead of cream.

among Occurrences 91%

Is the antelope to be classed among the goat family? Answer.

for Occurrences 76%

Ere long the boys' class developed into a class for working men, which grew and grew till it reached an average attendance of a hundred.

to Occurrences 72%

I doubt that I shall ever bring up underneath any precise label, and yet some people would think it egotistical that I insisted upon being a class to myself.

from Occurrences 72%

This naturally made the class from which officers were drawn think that no career was open to them under the Union Jack and turned their thoughts towards France, where their fellows were enjoying full pay without a break.

under Occurrences 54%

They were classed under the appellation of [Greek: Oneiroploi], to which rank the most celebrated Vates of the heroic age belonged.

by Occurrences 47%

With all this demand, the business man still stands largely in a class by himself, a class apart from the great leaders of the world.

on Occurrences 42%

Total for three men from Hamilton to Fort Macpherson, provided they travel second-class on the C.P.R. will be $218.70.

than Occurrences 29%

Among the English-speaking civilians in Canada, many of whom were now of a much better class than the original camp-followers, the active loyalists comprised only the smaller half.

against Occurrences 26%

The danger was all the greater because it was no longer one foreigner intriguing against another, as in 1775, but French against British and class against class.

into Occurrences 24%

The superb Cuff himself, at whose condenscension Dobbin could only blush and wonder, helped him on with his Latin verses, "coached" him in play-hours, carried him triumphantly out of the little-boy class into the middle-sized form, and even there got a fair place for him.

without Occurrences 15%

Fortunately it was found that their diplomas from Putnam Hall would admit them to the freshmen class without examination.

above Occurrences 15%

The sight gave Mandy a curious satisfaction, as though it uttered what she would fain have said to the classes above her.

after Occurrences 13%

A rise in prices is not, however, the only process that will check the appearance of a new rich usurer class after the war.

over Occurrences 12%

But these shoddy empires based on militarism and commercialism, and built up in order to secure the unclean ascendancy of two outworn and effete classes over the rest of mankinda thousand times no!

amongst Occurrences 12%

But, as he thence believes he has proved that the glossopetrae should not be classed amongst stones, so also what he has said may prove that they are the natural teeth of those fishes, which are called, by lithographers, lamia, aquila, requiem, (shark) etc.

during Occurrences 11%

Hopes were held out of the construction both of destroyers and of submarines in about twelve months; but labour and other difficulties intervened, and although some firms did complete craft of both classes during 1915 in less than twelve months, by 1916 and 1917 destroyers averaged about eighteen months and submarines even longer for completion.

about Occurrences 8%

When next she was conscious of what was going on about hershe had been turning Libbie's troubles over and over in her mind without resultMiss Jessup was speaking to her class about the "association of ideas.

between Occurrences 8%

Hardly any point gave me so much satisfaction, when I was at work on the Origin, as the explanation of the wide difference in many classes between the embryo and the adult animal, and of the close resemblance of the embryos within the same class.

below Occurrences 5%

Taking both contests down to the end of the Trafalgar year, the following table will show how great was the development of the line-of-battle-ship class below the three-decker and above the 64-gun ship.

throughout Occurrences 4%

Even now the German Navy, the pride of the commercial and industrial classes throughout the German Empire, is regarded by them with uneasy suspicion as a parvenu service, in which the old Prussian influences count for less in promotion than technical skill and practical efficiency.

Which preposition to use with  classes