Example sentences of "the first year [subord] " in BNC.

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1 The first year after I moved in I found snails , morning after morning , an infantry of them , silvering across the damp lawn .
2 Forty-eight hours after the Novell-buys-Unix announcement , Microsoft was out telling folks like The Wall Street Journal that it would sell more than a million copies of Windows NT the first year after it comes out .
3 Although a fall in numbers occurred in the first year after charges were introduced , that was largely due to the building works , but the figures have increased and Welsh men are looking forward enormously to the addition to their national museum .
4 The mean height increment during the first year after diagnosis was 4.4 ( 2.3 ) cm .
5 Height velocity in the first year after operation increased dramatically compared with year before operation among patients with growth potential .
6 The H pylori reinfection rate in the first year after eradication was 6.25% ( two of 32 patients ) .
7 And so quite a big job has been cutting reeds back around the islands and the banks , and also we 've had what they call blooms of blanketweed , not so much recently but , apparently it 's more common with new ponds and I had a tremendous bloom of blanketweed the first year after I made it .
8 This was the first year since he became leader of his party six years ago that Mr Kinnock was relieved of his preoccupation with an ungovernable party and was able to turn his attention properly to the government of the country .
9 The US-Canada free trade accord came under severe political scrutiny in the first year since its ratification [ see p. 36426 ] .
10 This is the first year since Greenpeace 's foundation 21 years ago in which contributions — all of which come from individuals — have failed to rise .
11 When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families .
12 That five thousand per annum figure is a guaranteed figure , we could in fact print seven thousand in the first year if they wanted .
13 Even with such a drastic cut , we estimated our losses for the first year as being in the region of £148,000 .
14 Pesticide use was reduced by 65 per cent in the first year whilst crop yields increased .
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