He has married a young daughter of an American colleague.

"The temperatures were higher than those obtained by our American colleagues."

She told my American colleague the book is fine and he agrees.

But their American colleagues complain that tests are too easy.

But it is only in the last few years, he says, that the habit has caught on with his American colleagues.

He was also growing to feel isolated from his American colleagues.

Perhaps we ought to go and take another look, as only one in three of our American colleagues have a passport.

Some of our American colleagues quite clearly said that the time for fine words is over.

And they probably didn't get any drunker than their American colleagues.

"It is our American colleagues who are anxious to see a change."