Sentence examples for a first professional from inspiring English sources

The offer of a first professional contract, however, came from Brentford, then in the second division.

Frazier had a ring in which to respond and duly inflicted upon Ali a first professional defeat.

Against Chelsea Carr's latest group of highly talented cadets will be led by the captain Potts, who overcame illness as a child and who signed a first professional contract of two and a half years in December.

Smith, one of the most experienced coaches in Australian rugby league who is now in charge of the Sydney Roosters, had travelled to a building site in the city where a teenage McNamara was working as a labourer to offer him a first professional deal.

"You want two to three years for a first professional job," Hing says.

Gillespie's arrival as a youth-team player in 2008 was followed by a first professional contract in May 2010.

Over all, roughly 75 percent of the league's current players played a second professional season abroad last winter.

It was a personal and artistic milestone for this beloved Illinois-born soprano, who must have felt as if she were making a second professional debut.

It was reached by Judge Hellmann and a second professional judge sitting alongside six lay judges drawn by ballot from among the public.

By his own admission, Harrison was drinking in the last chance saloon this evening – a place he seems to have resided for quite a while – and he said a sixth professional loss would end a career of perplexing underachievement.

At age 50, after hitting 548 home runs and winning 10 Gold Gloves for the Philadelphia Phillies, Schmidt is trying to forge a second professional career on the Senior Tour.