Sentence examples for start of a stage from inspiring English sources

Photograph: Rex 2.22pm GMT A musher and his dogs are pictured before the start of a stage of the Grande Odyssee sledding race across the Alps in Sixt-Fer-a-Cheval, France.

Nonetheless, Dell'Olio has high hopes that this may well be the start of a stage career: "Yes, I see the stage as an extension of what I do, of celebrity," she says.

The rally was marred by the deaths of two spectators and, in a separate incident, the motorcycle competitor Thomas Bourgin of France, who was en route to the start of a stage when he collided head-on with a Chilean police cruiser.

A city-wide cycle hire scheme is to start in York and could be ready by early 2014, the year the city hosts the start of a stage in the Tour de France.

The council has already agreed a city-wide cycle hire scheme to start in 2014, the year York hosts the start of a stage in the Tour de France.

Tomorrow's announcement raising the personal income tax allowance by £1,000 to £7,475, at a cost of £3.7bn, is also being billed as the start of a staged drive to meet the coalition's long-term objective – and a key Liberal Democrat policy – of raising personal allowances to £10,000.

Perhaps today is the start of a new stage in Cuban history," said Irma Guzman.

Perhaps today is the start of a new stage in Cuban history," said Irma Guzman, her neighbour.

"The conclusion of the treaty indicates a start of a new stage in the development of mutual relations," the two ministers said in a joint statement carried by the agency.

Mattias Tyrbjorn and his co-driver Henrik Lundh went off the road in their Opel Astra coming into a right turn about 650 feet after the start of a special stage at Berga.

It was, many thought, the start of a new stage in the conflict.