Sentence examples for years at first from inspiring English sources

Clanton, who resigned after serving as the group's second-highest official for five years, at first declined to comment.

Only after that will you take your vows and, even then, they are only for three years at first.

Have guns really been an essential part of American life for 400 years?At first glance it seems absurd to doubt it.

"Electro-swing has been at Bestival in some form or another for five years – at first it didn't have a name.

Thereafter Klapka lived in exile for many years, at first in England and then in Switzerland, working for Hungarian independence from the Austrian Empire.

And I never wanted to go to the sanitariums, but I had to live there for 10 years — at first by force, and then by circumstances".

A man who had worked for the Parkers for several years at first refused to take the poster out of Mr. Parker's room.

The mean age was 74.4 years at first-eye surgery and 75.0 years at second-eye surgery, while 58.5% of first-eye surgeries and 60.9% of second-eye surgeries were performed in women.

And even though they pulled out all the stops for us -- I have known the principals in the restaurant for years -- at first the food seemed more like the work of a newly minted cooking school graduate.

Table  1 shows that the majority were in employment for at least ten years, aged 35 54 years at first episode, and diagnosed with pulmonary TB. 3170 men had a first episode of TB, of whom 2046 (65%) were HIV positive.

Participants in the Whitehall II Study (n = 5,873; ages 45 69 years at first cognitive assessment) underwent executive function and memory tests 3 times over a period of 10 years (1997 1999 to 2007 2009).