Example sentences of "year [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today 's bright and open classrooms with their informal furniture seem light years away from the first school in which I taught . |
| 2 | Now , twelve years later in the first province-wide ‘ beauty show ’ , the majority of Ulster unionists chose Ian Paisley as their spokesman . |
| 3 | The story takes place at an unspecified date but clearly in the years immediately before the First World War . |
| 4 | Social hygiene took off in the years immediately before the First War as part of the growing debate over national health and efficiency . |
| 5 | I was pleased to renew friendships made over two years ago at the First Congress of Black Catholics , and it was a joy to be again in a crowd of African , Afro-Caribbean and Asian Catholics where for once I was not the only black face in a sea of white ones . |
| 6 | There was a lot more tetanus , but no more than was carried in here fifty years ago in the First War . |
| 7 | Relations were eased somewhat by the visit on April 25 , 1990 , of Margaret Thatcher , the UK Prime Minister , who participated in official remembrance ceremonies marking the Gallipoli campaign 75 years earlier during the First World War . |
| 8 | Last year also for the first time it was televised by Yorkshire Television . |
| 9 | The number was extremely complicated so realising that completion would take some time , he took out advertisements a year before of the first performance and announced that bookings would be accepted for the unseen act . |
| 10 | The agreement follows Objectivity 's shipment a year ago of the first ODBMS development environment to integrate HP 's C++ SoftBench tools . |