However, different groups use the terns rather loosely to mean different things.
Approximately seven years ago, the warden informed me of the destruction of a substantial number of terns' eggs by an animal.
I have no illusions about the border controls sys tern being perfect.
Legal aid is not to be removed pro tern.
At the end of tern she conducted the leavers' service in front of a full church congregation.
We must be careful that the terns are not forgotten.
The same is true of the petrels, the skuas, the terns, and many of their eggs make quite delicious eating.
The tern chicks were responding to very finely-grained properties of the auditory signal, and apparently neglecting even the most obvious of visual properties discernible in the situation.
