Example sentences of "[prep] its first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bewl Valley is beginning to reap the benefits after its first crop in 1987 . |
| 2 | More notably , however , at the Chichester Theatre in 1983 he rescued the reputation of A Patriot for Me , John Osborne 's tragi-comedy of homosexuality which had been banned after its first performance in 1965 . |
| 3 | In July 1908 after its first year of trading , the bar account showed a £45 profit , including stock . |
| 4 | In the past I have had to search far and wide for opportunities to fly this wonderful big radial-engined workhorse , and my quest had taken me to Australia , Canada and various parts of the USA ; but now , at last , 45 years after its first flight , we have a floatplane Beaver here in the UK . |
| 5 | The Parliament Act provides merely that the life of Parliament will end by effluxion of time , five years to the day after its first meeting , only if it has not previously been dissolved by the monarch and , these days , it invariably is . |
| 6 | We know that Olaudah Equiano spread successive printings of his autobiography after its first publication in 1789 by selling them with antislavery as well as personal benefit in mind to his audiences after meetings . |
| 7 | It might have served as a link between Britain and the Six , but it was not until after its first application to join the EEC had been rejected in 1963 that Britain began seriously to consider this as a possibility . |
| 8 | After its first year it had the widest appeal of any soap opera . |
| 9 | As the ABI wo n't be updated until a year after its first edition , additional requirements like these will be published as addenda . |
| 10 | IBM is now saying the Taligent operating environment , its joint venture with Apple , wo n't be able to run OS/2 , Mac or AIX applications until a year after its first release . |
| 11 | It may have been such a realisation ( along with the generally hostile reaction to the Framework document ) that encouraged the DES to be less specific in its second attempt at producing a framework for the curriculum ( almost a year after its first attempt ) . |
| 12 | Shakespeare 's The Winter 's Tale , for example , was revived in 1623 more than a decade after its first appearance . |
| 13 | After its first emergency meeting on Aug. 3 the GCC Ministerial Council met again in Jeddah on Aug. 7 and reiterated its call for an unconditional Iraqi withdrawal . |
| 14 | Byzantium was renamed Constantinople after its first Christian Emperor and remained capital of a vast polyglot empire until its capitulation to Mohammedanism in 1453 . |
| 15 | But in case we should be so facile as to see this as a Grimes leitmotif in the Wagnerian sense explicitly rejected by Britten , we must notice the somewhat complex history of the theme after its first full appearance , as well as the fact that almost every theme in the opera ( apart from the non-recurring tunes of some , but not all , of the individual songs ) could be called a " Grimes " leitmotif , which would leave us where we began . |
| 16 | The new controller of BBC1 , Alan Yentob , said he made the ‘ very hard ’ decision last night to halt the soap after its first 156 episodes end in July . |
| 17 | The new controller of BBC1 , Alan Yentob , said he made the ‘ very hard ’ decision last night to halt the soap after its first 156 episodes end in July . |
| 18 | That 's a look we 'll see emerging from the dull , old chrysalis that was Renault design in the '70s and '80s , when it takes the wraps off its first really new-age car in two years ' time . |
| 19 | MARKETING MAGIC Balbirnie House , Fife , established more than 50% occupancy during its first 18 months , due to carefully targeted marketing |
| 20 | Labour is committed to introducing during its first year in power a Bill to set up a Scottish parliament to be elected by proportional representation . |
| 21 | Set up to reduce US dependence on imported oil following the Iranian revolution and with authority to spend $13.25 billion on synthetics projects , during its first four years the corporation provided only $740 million in aid to two quite small projects . |
| 22 | The rocket had a minor problem during its first launch last October . |
| 23 | Science International certainly ranged widely during its first week , as well as getting across a few simple principles . |
| 24 | The 10p terror is selling two million a week , and during its first month knocked Radio Times and TV Times into second and third places . |
| 25 | During its first term ( 1979–83 ) the government 's main public sector policies involved achieving reductions in the public sector borrowing requirement ( PSBR ) and improving the profitability of nationalised industries . |
| 26 | Lady Drummond Hay and Karl von Wiegand , the only newspaper correspondents on the Graf Zeppelin during its first commercial trans-Atlantic journey . |
| 27 | Even during its first few years , however , the Nordic Council began to achieve a considerable degree of coordination in the legislation of the three states , though these related to practical matters that did not seem to threaten national independence . |
| 28 | FIG. 2 Regressions of length mortality data against the number of days a cohort had been under observation during its first growing season , with the line forced through the origin . |
| 29 | From a turnover of less than £50,000 during its first year of business , the company expanded rapidly and has recently been instrumental in negotiating the £3 million Tetley Bitter sponsorship of the England team . |
| 30 | Over 80 clients used Bow Lane during its first 12 months of operation . |