Example sentences of "first [noun] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Total sales in 1992 amounted to £636 million compared to £583 million in 1991 , a rise of 9% and the first rise after two years of decline . |
| 2 | The tour provided the first opportunity for many years for people to call openly for the restoration of human rights , legalization of political parties and the scrapping of the Tinkhundla ( chieftancy ) system [ see p. 38048 ] . |
| 3 | The council elections to be held in Chile in June will provide the first opportunity in 20 years for Chileans to vote against the ‘ eyes and ears ’ of the military dictatorship , according to Maria Antonieta Saa , the human rights activist and Chile 's only woman mayor . |
| 4 | A most generous contribution was made by the society 's first chairman of 26 years ago , Peter Lyndon-Skeggs , and other donations were made by members and those whose properties fronted The Soke , bringing contributions to more than £16,000 . |
| 5 | The Census Dissemination Unit and the Census Microdata Unit have been funded in the first instance for five years . |
| 6 | The first census for 15 years , scheduled for Jan. 7-14 , ran into controversy over the collection of data on the Hungarian-speaking minority . |
| 7 | LEON RUSSELL ‘ Anything Can Happen ’ first album for ten years from the much-respected musician and songwriter who has previously worked with Phil Spector , Bob Dylan , George Harrison and the Rolling Stones |
| 8 | Businessmen are enjoying their first boom for ten years . |
| 9 | Having worked and been around the Brighton first schools for many years , I would very much hope that the transition is not traumatic . |
| 10 | Having worked and been around the Brighton first schools for many years , I would very much hope that the transition is not traumatic . |
| 11 | Minolta , the camera maker , reporting its first loss in 27 years , has slashed the salaries of 23 directors by up to 20 per cent . |
| 12 | In the week that Alan Sugar was revealed to be Britain 's top earner under the age of 45 , his company , Amstrad , announced its first loss in 23 years . |
| 13 | He said that the government had sat on the council figures which include injuries treated by GPs and first aid for two years . |
| 14 | Patient 402 — adenomatous polyps found on the first screening aged 21 years . |
| 15 | The first study in recent years of this important Boston painter and teacher whose Paris training stood him in good stead in introducing into America a fascinating mixture of French Academicism , Barbizon and early Impressionism . |
| 16 | It should however be noted that by virtue of the automatic discharge from a first bankruptcy after three years irrespective of the debtor 's conduct ( short of criminal offence ) , an individual debtor will be treated far more leniently than a company director guilty of wrongful trading , who can be disqualified for up to 15 years . |
| 17 | Latest figures showed parish church councils netted £237,571 in 1990 down £1,000 in real terms on 1989 and the first fall for 14 years . |
| 18 | The number of sheep fell slightly , the first fall for many years . |
| 19 | Moody , in his first Test for two years , departed early on Day 2 , having made 50 , but Boon reached his century before falling to the persevering Prabhakar , who finished with 5 for 101 , including his 50th Test wicket . |
| 20 | AN EPIC match , of huge social and political significance beyond the narrow confines of Barbados , had almost everything save perhaps a crowd , and reached an enthralling climax on the final morning when South Africa , needing only 79 runs with eight wickets remaining for an historic victory in their first Test for 22 years , were swept away on a floodtide of West Indian pride and aggression . |
| 21 | Brian Lara was dropped low down at first slip by Wessels off his first ball from Snell , and Keith Arthurton , in his first Test for three years , survived two slip catches off no-balls and another actual chance in his top score of 59 , filled with 10 exciting on-side boundaries . |
| 22 | First battle in 40 years over choice of Speaker |
| 23 | That I who have held first place for eight years should be asked to take a secondary position . ’ |
| 24 | When the heads of government of the five ASEAN countries held their first meeting for eight years in February 1976 in Indo-China they failed to agree on regional security and the communiqué of the meeting did not mention neutralisation . |
| 25 | It was the first meeting in nine years — for the day of my father 's funeral does n't really count . |
| 26 | There was significant symbolic value attached to the talks as the first meeting in 30 years between Nelson Mandela , the ANC deputy president , and Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi , leader of Inkatha , who had once been fellow students at university , and were now the country 's two most influential black leaders . |
| 27 | The Order has its headquarters in Rome , with the first Englishman for 700 years , Fra Andrew Bertie , as the Grand Master . |
| 28 | Last night the Giants , their neighbours from across the San Francisco Bay , sealed the National League championship series against the Chicago Cubs , winning 3-2 to complete a 4-1 victory and take their first pennant for 27 years . |
| 29 | The pocket rocket became the first two-year-old for 36 years to land the Nunthorpe and the first two-year-old filly ever to lift this speedsters prize . |
| 30 | He has an unshakeable self-confidence , which no doubt dates back to when he sold his first paintings at nine years old , these early Koonses going for hundreds of dollars in Henry J Koons Interiors , his father 's furniture store in a small town in Pennsylvania . |