Example sentences of "year [conj] he first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is fifteen years since he first explored the relationship of real flesh and its marble parallels in art history . |
| 2 | Suave and sophisticated at 60 , it 's hard to believe that it 's 23 years since he first wooed a generation with Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head . |
| 3 | Now in his late 40s Mr Rees says he has seen many changes in attitude to transsexuals in the 20 years since he first asked for treatment . |
| 4 | In any case , Rutter 's ridicule seems a grotesquely inappropriate response to our constructive and it now seems , prescient , suggestion made some six years before he first presented his own distinguished views on the subject of lead pollution . |
| 5 | ‘ Terry had been on tea for four years before he first began using horse . ’ |
| 6 | Dustin Hoffman has confirmed plans to remake The Graduate almost 25 years after he first did the wild thing with Mrs Robinson and her daughter . |
| 7 | Sir Eric Ash was appointed Rector of Imperial in 1985 , almost exactly 40 years after he first stepped through its doors as a 17-year-old undergraduate . |
| 8 | Mr Jones retired in September 1989 , sixty years after he first joined the University as clerk in the Registrar 's Office . |
| 9 | By 1917 , the year that he first came into contact with Sartre , the very year that Lenin was establishing a new revolutionary Soviet state , three years before the birth of the French communist party , this future activist of the French Left was in the throes of a major personal crisis brought about by the demise of his father . |