Example sentences of "since it first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dismissed as a novelty ever since it first began , rap has not only survived but has provided us with endless pleasures and variations . |
| 2 | One of the latter is a book that has become a favourite in the two years since it first appeared in hardback form . |
| 3 | Among their other talismans is a little Buddha to which the Buddhist Society of Great Britain have apparently taken exception , although the Cross of Lourdes has only attracted five letters of complaint to the magazine since it first was advertised nine months ago . |
| 4 | Since it first met 15 months ago , the council has spent £732 000 setting itself up but seems no nearer completing its task of replacing the ineffectual Council of Engineering Institutions in such areas as improving engineering education , taking over registration of engineers and improving the status of the profession . |
| 5 | ‘ I have been teaching Connections since it first came out , and I enjoy it very much , and so do the vast majority of our students . ’ |
| 6 | Since it first appeared , Althusser 's work has attracted a great deal of attention , and his opponents have focussed in particular on his holist stance . |
| 7 | The opportunity afforded by a third term in office is thought to have induced a ‘ triumphalist ’ determination to effect even more remarkable and radical transformations in the social order than were brought about since it first took office in 1979 . |
| 8 | It has shrunk a little since it first started there , perhaps in the tenth century , but it is still one of the largest open-air markets in the country . |
| 9 | The libretto , which had been lying in his drawer for years , had been written by a M. Frontenac , who had known Alain-Fournier personally , and had been under the spell of his novel since it first appeared in 1913 . |
| 10 | I have bought Practical PC since it first came out in an attempt to help with the strange world of computers and from reading it I think I might need a 286 or 386 PC — but how can I be sure and I still have n't the foggiest idea what most of the terminology means . |
| 11 | Ever since it first appeared , the tractor , like the motor car has been a potential source of danger and death . |
| 12 | The leadership change was widely seen as an attempt to rejuvenate the party , whose fortunes had been at their lowest since it first came to power in 1981 . |
| 13 | Since it first started 51 years ago , opencast mining , too , has seen remarkable changes . |
| 14 | It is the first major development at the school since it first opened in 1957 . |
| 15 | The attacks started after building work began on the biggest improvement scheme carried out at the centre since it first opened in 1982 . |
| 16 | Since it first opened in April , almost 5,000 people have been through the doors . |