Sentence examples for ceased the first from inspiring English sources
The Great Famine shook the English economy severely and population growth ceased; the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 then killed around half the English population.
The loss of life in the Great Famine of 1315 17 shook the English economy severely and population growth ceased; the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 then killed around half the English population, with major implications for the post-plague economy.
In litigation, "meet conversation" immediately ceases: the first rule a lawyer conveys to the client is literally to not talk to his or her spouse -- lest self-scrutiny prove contrary to self-interest.
The banter ceased with the first pitch of the pennant race.
The development of coral reefs probably ceased when the first evaporitic event occurred in the basin centre in the early Messinian.
The flow of oil ceased, for the first time in the three months since a blowout in the well doomed the rig which had drilled it, Deepwater Horizon.
Counterstamping ceased during the first decades of the 19th century, although Hispanic-American eight-real pieces and the equivalent coins of the independent Latin-American countries continued to be reminted with the value of 960 reis for some time.
While wine production in the UK more or less ceased in the first half of the 20th century, there is now a scatter of midland vineyards that stretches north, even into Yorkshire.
Passenger steamships called at Herne Bay pier on their route between London and destinations along the north coast of Kent from 1832, but this service ceased in the first half of the 20th century.
