Example sentences of "start of the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Glorious Twelfth ’ signalled the start of the first ‘ Haggis Shoot ’ of the season — a kindly alternative to the usual grouse . |
| 2 | And that was the start of the first film society in Spain during the Franco dictatorship . |
| 3 | Although no longer used commercially , it was apparently put to occasional use grinding corn up to the start of the First World War . |
| 4 | This probably saved the structure from even worse decay following the cessation of commercial milling at the start of the First World War . |
| 5 | In fact , Abercrombie was watching the start of the first Lebanese civil war , itself the preliminary act in the catastrophe that would tear Lebanon to pieces . |
| 6 | Production continued into the 20th century but declined slowly from the start of the First World War until the Smiths of Mauchline were the only manufacturers of the wooden ware left in Ayrshire . |
| 7 | To the Colonisation Commission and its supporters the start of the First World War offered a solution to all their problems . |
| 8 | By the start of the First World War , many of the older members of what is now the British Commonwealth of Nations were well on the way to de facto independence of the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | In the succeeding Mesozoic era there was an initial radiation of the reptile class at the start of the first period , the Triassic , with a few more radiations in the following Jurassic . |
| 10 | And the start of the first tour match against the Ranji Trophy champions at nearby Faridabad on Sunday seems a distant oasis of calm . |
| 11 | A sound engineer was supposed to fade them out at the start of the first edition in July '67 , but failed . |
| 12 | Even after 1857 , when divorce came easier , the numbers involved were not large , averaging about 600 per year up to the start of the First World War . |
| 13 | I should add that Toscanini is better able to suggest a mood of subdued quiet at the start of the first movement . |
| 14 | In the case where the start of the first index track searched has to be located before the search begins , a single-track index will require an average search time of R , but each additional track will again only add R/2 . |
| 15 | Oh it would be just , just about the start of the First World War . |
| 16 | Er you see when I was , this would just be at the start of the First World War , oh damn I have n't put a switch in have I ? |
| 17 | This gives the balance in the account in terms of the value of money at the start of the first year . |
| 18 | May 18 marked the start of the first round of the so-called " large " privatization through the voucher system [ for details of the scheme and previous stages , see pp. 38469 ; 38734 ; 38777 ] . |
| 19 | The original base mapping was carried out for most of Scotland between 1865 and the start of the First World War . |
| 20 | The following reductions are applied iteratively until there are only two vertices , one defined by the start of the first word in the utterance , the second by the end of the last word . |