Example sentences of "first year " in BNC.

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1 Can you say what the best things are from your drama school experience and what has been of most value to you during your first year in the profession ?
2 The first year you 're running on adrenalin and you 're going to take on the world .
3 The hotel has just completed its first year of operation , which it celebrated with a month-long daily cake-cutting ceremony .
4 It now looks very well in a 15in pot , staked against wind damage and regularly fed , and in its first year yielded a crop of more than 3lb of berries .
5 As is my usual practice , I pruned the first year 's growth back hard to produce several stems instead of just one , and I have been well rewarded for my efforts .
6 Some babies affected like this die in the first year of their life , those who do not die can face a lifetime of handicap .
7 The words drew on his memory of a secret meeting he had gone to at the end of his first year in Glasgow .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 The first year after I moved in I found snails , morning after morning , an infantry of them , silvering across the damp lawn .
11 It is hoped that the first year 's crop of students will stay on at Hooke Park to help initiate a production plant there .
12 He was ( in retrospect ) surprisingly luke warm about the potential of cross-London links — ‘ show me the market ’ — although he was no doubt pleased to accept in this first year in office an offer from the GLC to fund the third-rail electrification over 8½ miles between Dalston and North Woolwich .
13 Rex was employed as a toy importer but had also been in wine importation before he joined Khai Eng full-time towards the end of the first year .
14 Within the Warwick structure students have the possibility of learning another language intensively from scratch in the first year , so they can read straightforward literary texts at the end of it .
15 This has been a focus of his first year and will be of his second .
16 Although he will take urgent steps to impose a new contract , which they have rejected , he has told the doctors ' and dentists ' pay review body that he is prepared to tackle any problems arising in the first year .
17 One source said : ‘ He gave an undertaking to the DDRB in his submission last week that we will monitor very closely the effects of the contract in the first year .
18 Geelong , who finished ninth last year , were the underdogs for the match but came within one straight kick of achieving the impossible dream , in coach Malcolm Blight 's first year .
19 Two unconnected events , but they present a picture of sport on television which brings the state of play in the battle for the sporting viewer into sharp perspective ; BBC , centre circle , triumphant ; ITV pushed to the wings ; and the satellite and cable companies warming to the game after their first year 's play .
20 This was the first year since he became leader of his party six years ago that Mr Kinnock was relieved of his preoccupation with an ungovernable party and was able to turn his attention properly to the government of the country .
21 In its first year Eurosport has enjoyed access to live transmissions of the athletics , motorcycling and Formula One Grand Prix circuits and acres of European football , an advantage which British Satellite Broadcasting , the ‘ squarial ’ company hoping to transmit next year , claims is unfair .
22 Mr Chapman is expecting to publish around 25 books in the first year , and could float the company within five years .
23 A second park , the theme of which Disney has not yet decided , is projected to welcome eight million in its first year ( 1996 ) .
24 The Ford Pay claim coincides with negotiations at Vauxhall where leaders of the 9,000 manual workers have turned down a two-year offer giving 9.1 per cent in the first year and inflation plus £3 in the second .
25 It is not available in the first year of the policy and in the second year only £250 — about two hours ' worth for a top London matrimonial lawyer -will be met for each party .
26 In its first year of operation it made 25,000 cars and trucks .
27 They can expect an income return of 8.5 per cent in the first year .
28 In my own university , for instance , the number of first year students of biology that we have been able to accept this year has been entirely constrained not by the quality of our applicants but the physical size of our teaching laboratories .
29 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 .
30 Rupert Murdoch told the annual meeting in Adelaide : ‘ This may well be the first year in some years when our earnings do not show their customary increase . ’
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