Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the first stage " in BNC.
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| 1 | He died within a year of taking up his new office , but by then he had successfully completed the first stage of the reduction of Wales which , according to his will , he expected to complete within his three-year term of office . |
| 2 | , personnel secretary at Ipswich , has successfully completed the first stage of a three year course in personnel management at the Suffolk College . |
| 3 | He had stayed long enough to see the first stage of the counter-inflation policy accepted and the clash and confrontation of two years earlier replaced by a new partnership . |
| 4 | But , as Taylor shows , in the value-adding spectrum , they only comprise the first stage of a four-stage process . |
| 5 | We already have the first stage of economic and monetary union — the exchange rate mechanism — and it is already doing great damage to Britain . |
| 6 | The exhibition will also present the first stage of a restoration programme which will cover the 150 photographs displayed . |
| 7 | Last year the Yorkshire Water Authority tentatively began the first stage of a £150 million programme to eliminate the worst coloured waters from such towns as Huddersfield , Halifax , Bradford and Sheffield . |
| 8 | This effectively eliminates the first stage of the nitrogen cycle . |
| 9 | I 'm sure we have n't yet finished the first stage . |