Example sentences of "his first year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words drew on his memory of a secret meeting he had gone to at the end of his first year in Glasgow . |
| 2 | In his own beloved English , it was always higher , averaging 71.3 per cent in the three years he offered the subject ; French , which was only offered in his first year produced a convincing 75 per cent ; and Economics , offered in two years , 62 per cent . |
| 3 | Accordingly , he read arts in his first year ; commerce ( which included accounting , commercial law , political science and a couple of doses of mathematics ) in his second ; arts ( though strangely retaining political science ) for his third and fourth years , to which was added zoology . |
| 4 | This has been a focus of his first year and will be of his second . |
| 5 | If Moxon , still young in captaincy terms , were to be given the job there would be a strong argument in favour of a team manager and as Illingworth , perhaps wisely , has rejected one offer to return ( from Leicestershire ) Yorkshire might look at another native son who has , from all accounts , done an excellent job in his first year of managment at Somerset , Jack Birkenshaw . |
| 6 | When Betjeman failed his Divinity exams at the end of his first year , it would have been open to his tutor to plead for him with the College so that he could resit these comparatively unimportant exams and stay on at the University . |
| 7 | It was the year of the Queen 's Silver Jubilee and the Prince , just twenty-nine , was drawing to the end of his first year as a full-time working member of the ‘ family firm ’ . |
| 8 | But Muawad spent his first year in Parliament as an exile in the Syrian port city of Lattakia , after a member of a rival family accused him of taking part in an inter-clan clash in June 1957 near Zghotra in which 16 people were killed . |
| 9 | That general attitude of the South 's is said to have been the most striking impression retained by Ripa di Meana , the EC environment commissioner , from talks during his first year in office ( 1989 ) with Third World ministers and officials . |
| 10 | In his first year as leader , Rajiv Gandhi threatened to throw out the thugs . |
| 11 | They are a genuine substitute for the talk and shared companionship that was missing from his first year at Oxford . |
| 12 | He was a young lawyer of about thirty in his first year in Parliament , who had sufficiently impressed someone in Government to have been given the job of Junior Minister at the Trade office . |
| 13 | His first year has been generally regarded as a success , but Attalli 's task , with a portfolio that extends from the river Oder to Manchuria , is enormous . |
| 14 | ‘ The whole of this club is rooting for him and wishing him well , ’ added the comparatively young Liverpool chairman , who admitted to finding his first year in office ‘ a difficult baptism ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ He is a definite runner , all being well , ’ said Cole , who restricted the colt to the minimum trip of five furlongs in his first year . |
| 16 | During his first year , Shearman , in his Morris , established contacts in villages throughout east and north Bedfordshire , holding public meetings , giving evening lectures , conducting short courses all with the objective of creating student groups as nuclei of future WEA branches . |
| 17 | By the end of his first year , more that sixty village lectures had been provided , about one-third of them at Women 's Institutes , and five short courses were arranged in villages near Ipswich . |
| 18 | In Essex in his first year , Douglas-Smith helped to establish three new WEA branches at Dunmow , Maldon and Witham ; Terminal courses at three other centres and encouraged the creation of the Essex County Federation of WEA Branches . |
| 19 | By the end of his first year he 'll be light-haired , but it will change again so that in maturity he 'll be quite definitely dark . |
| 20 | After occupying junior ministerial office from his first year in Parliament , he became Economic Secretary to the Treasury in 1955 . |
| 21 | Also at the tournament were Manuel and Severiano Ballesteros , who was in his first year on the tour , and only eighteen years old . |
| 22 | They have played some great football and it was not more than the team deserved , and was great reward for manager Doug Williams in his first year in charge . |
| 23 | When he returned to college immediately following his discharge , he was lucky to escape with relatively minor punishment — the Master ordered one month 's gating and ninety pages of Greek translation — and was determined not only to drop his more unsuitable friends but , as in his first year at Cambridge , ‘ to write for all the Prizes ’ . |
| 24 | Charles II was proclaimed king in May 1660 and , because parliament declared he had been de jure king since his father 's death , his first year of actual kingship was designated his twelfth and a starting date of 29 May was adopted . |
| 25 | Because he was so far ahead in his first year , he spent his time on other things . |
| 26 | It was a sweet way for Crosby to celebrate the end of his first year in the Sunderland hot seat . |
| 27 | Mendy said he would be backed by a consortium — so far un-named — of professional sports people and had been guaranteed £100,000 in his first year , £200,000 in his second and £500,000 in the third . |
| 28 | In his first year of operation from April 1991 , the Pensions Ombudsman received more than 2,100 complaints . |
| 29 | Given its regional network , 3i seemed a ‘ sensible ’ choice and he spent his first year in Leeds . |
| 30 | The record shows that in 1974 , his first year at Ferrari , Niki 's success was modest . |