Example sentences of "years [prep] first [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | With electronic aids to navigation proliferating on small boats of all kinds and technology advancing on all fronts it is hardly surprising that a revised second edition of this volume has been required only three years after first publication . |
2 | It 's that at the age of 34 , fourteen years after first shambling on stage in downtown Chicago , having criss-crossed the stand-up circuit from coast to coast and guested on very hip chat show from David Letterman to Arsenio Hall , he should be bigger than he is . |
3 | The relative risk of gastric cancer in cimetidine users decreased among men from 8.1 in the first year of follow up to a non-significant 1.3 7–11 years after first use of cimetidine ( Table V ) . |
4 | Time and again , it appears that Place himself wrote in afterthoughts or amended text , often many years after first writing it . |
5 | Although data integrity will no doubt be safe for many years , there is no substitute for the real thing if you have to produce the document in a court of law 15 years from first filing it . |
6 | Missionary Kate McBeth wrote : ‘ For a few years at first Joseph was afraid to come down upon the Nez Perce reserve — afraid of the surrounding whites and because of the many indictments against him — but this fear wore off . |