Sentence examples for a first bout from inspiring English sources

Already, a first bout of procurement will deliver around 175,000 elective (non-emergency) operations a year.

An opinion poll by ComRes, conducted after a first bout of student window-smashing in November, found 70% of the public agreed with the protesters' central charge: that higher fees will deter poorer kids from applying to university.

It was a rare clean sheet for the Jets, who were defensively sturdy despite the absence of key players Daniel Mullen and Jason Hoffman and made their case for a first bout of finals action in six seasons.

Flintoff, who conceded his ring bow "wasn't one for the purists", does not expect to dissuade the doubters and fully understands the degree of ill feeling around a first bout that may also prove to be his last.

The going theory for this--that antibodies generated by a first bout with dengue bind to a second strain, which helps it multiply in the immune cells--doesn't account for the internal bleeding and tissue damage, says Juthathip Mongkolsapaya of Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand.

Hosts did not attempt to avoid attacks and after a first bout of attack soon ceased any attempts to beg for food.

A second bout of unemployment could be a bigger stigma.

Pacquiao also said he wanted a fourth bout.

Pacquiao did not want a fourth bout, not initially.

During a second bout of instability, from 1998 to 2002, the region introduced more pragmatic policies.

Last year, on turning 70, a second bout of cancer resulted in my losing both breasts.