Example sentences of "[noun sg] be the [num ord] stage of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stagnation is the first stage of decay . |
| 2 | Announcing the package in parliament , Keating said that the spending programme was the first stage of a four-year " strategy for growth " which would produce an average GDP growth of 4 per cent , cutting unemployment from the current post-war high of 10.3 per cent to 7.75 per cent through the creation of 800,000 jobs . |
| 3 | Learning to pass urine in the correct place is the next stage of awareness and learning . |
| 4 | Seeing these fish grow larger and exhibit adult colouration is the next stage of enjoyment . |
| 5 | This new exhibition area is the first stage of the Nuovi Uffizi complex , which has been subject to delays even though the funds have long been available . |
| 6 | Extracting this sort of consolation prize from the Bourbon candidate was the first stage of Britain 's advance into the Mediterranean , which in the nineteenth century was followed by a series of acquisitions which led to control of the route to the east . |
| 7 | Newspapers speculate that the 1lb of TNT that went off 25 minutes before the general arrived in his office was the next stage of this campaign . |