Example sentences of "[adj] year [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , the first growth of German , French and Belgian railways was about 30 years after the first British lines . |
| 2 | SCIENCE FICTION breeds more science fiction and success breeds sequels : these two have been a long time coming Forty years since the first Foundation tale , 14 since 001 : A Space Odyssey — can Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke repeat their successes ? |
| 3 | A trip to the blood donors may seem like a strange topic to write about in a staff magazine but it is one that took my mind back a few years to the first time my mum persuaded me to go . |
| 4 | But once the West no longer needed Mr Ceausescu 's anti-Soviet services , his policy of deliberate isolation narrowed his options and led earlier this year to the first signs of internal party dissent . |
| 5 | But once the West no longer needed Mr Ceausescu 's anti-Soviet services , his policy of deliberate isolation narrowed his options and led earlier this year to the first signs of internal party dissent . |
| 6 | This year for the first time , we mailed a pre-recorded tape cassette to all radio stations in the UK . |
| 7 | BRITAIN is dreaming of a green Christmas this year for the first time since artificial trees appeared in the shops . |
| 8 | This year for the first time oceanic and African tribal art will be exhibited by Elms Lesters Painting Rooms and Savannah Gallery . |
| 9 | The prestigious Antiquaires à Paris group of dealers who specialise in eighteenth-century French furniture albeit with many sidelines is back again this year for the first time since 1986 , although with nothing to compare with the extravagantly decorated and richly stocked collective stand which caused so much jealousy then . |
| 10 | Erm , I 'm not in a position to add anything very much to the article for next year , I spent most of Friday afternoon with the Tech last week , erm , but there 's still obviously a good deal of uncertainty about programmes for next year , erm , what I think has been very positive is that we have now er , this year for the first time since the Tech 's formation , they 've started to discuss some of the issues about the programmes with a group of providers . |
| 11 | Bursaries , available this year for the first time , broadened the opportunities to attend . |
| 12 | More than 50 senior executives from seven countries attended the Group Management Conference , held this year for the first time at Courtaulds Woodside training centre in Kenilworth . |
| 13 | Orders delivered within a day have hit the magic 100 per cent target this year for the first time . |
| 14 | This may change later this year with the first ‘ second-generation ’ RDS set incorporating RDS-EON ( enhanced other networks ) function . |
| 15 | Erm before we started this drawing which so if I co , perhaps if I stand here everyone will be able to see which is probably fairly familiar and in , in most respects it goes back about six years to the first master plan that was produced for the estate erm to provide a combination of regeneration and new build . |
| 16 | And , more importantly were to reveal a grossly unbalanced population , both in sex and age distribution , presaging problems which are with us still And yet , just six years after the first of the emigrant liners sailed from Stornoway , the social value of the croft was demonstrated in the most dramatic way possible . |
| 17 | The risk of developing cancer is increased in those individuals who have had extensive colitis for more than 10 years after the first attack , the cumulative cancer rate being 7% at 20 years and 17% at 30 years disease duration . |
| 18 | He had spent nearly all of his forty-eight years in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , and during that time he had witnessed literally thousands of encounters with people from the Other Side . |
| 19 | Britain encouraged the growth of Zionism in Palestine in the early years of the First World War because she wanted American Jews to ally their country in the war against Turkey . |
| 20 | Nearly 35 years after the first lawsuit , arguments over responsibility and compensation for Minamata are still ploughing through the Japanese courts . |
| 21 | Nearly 600 years after the first building it was to suffer a most ignoble period for the old building , within whose walls had been seen some of the highest in the land , was to become a Workhouse . |
| 22 | It certainly is the case that the Reagan administration was never able to duplicate the domestic policy triumphs of 1981 in the remaining three years of the first term . |
| 23 | IBM Canada Ltd and Apple Canada Ltd say they have won an education technology supply contract from the New Brunswick government : the province is to invest $12.7m in education technology in the next three years with the first phase starting immediately with $2m investment . |
| 24 | Appointment will be on the Lecturer Grade B scale ; £16,014–£20,469 p.a. ( under review ) for three years in the first instance . |
| 25 | The Fellowship will be for three years in the first instance . |
| 26 | Sales in its department stores in the year to January 1991 were only 6.4% higher , by value , than in 1989–90 — and plunged by 16% on the previous year in the first , snowy week of February . |
| 27 | Regulations restricting building in London were first issued by royal proclamation in 1580 , many years before the first statutory regulation . |
| 28 | It was agreed that ( i ) a system of proportional representation in the Assembly of the Republic ( legislature ) would be adopted ; ( ii ) legislative and presidential elections would be held simultaneously within one year of the signing of a ceasefire accord , although this deadline could be extended ; ( iii ) presidential candidates would be at least 35 years old and their candidacies supported by a minimum of 10,000 signatures ; ( iv ) the minimum voting age and that for the representatives in the Assembly would be 25 years , although there was an expectation that these would be reduced to 18 years after the first set of elections ; ( v ) a National Electoral Commission , one-third of whose members would be appointed by the MNR , would organize the electoral process , determining for example the number of seats per region ; and ( vi ) the government would assist the MNR to secure appropriate facilities to carry out its political work in at least every provincial capital . |
| 29 | Fourteen years after the first Berlin crisis the world seemed no nearer to a relaxation in Cold War tensions . |
| 30 | However , it was to be another fourteen years before the first permanent regional transmitter was opened in Mbeya in 1972 . |