first year

Example Sentences

• "The obvious topic for this issue is the new first year students. What are they like? It would be easy to say that they seem to be a typical mob of apathetic new students. It would be more correct however, to say that they are simply a typical bunch of first years. They were given one of the best, if not the best, Orientation Weeks (thanks especially to the untiring efforts of Ronny-Boy Colman) that the A.N. U. has ever seen. The reaction of the first years was perhaps a little disappointing to the organisers but it was probably as good as could be expected."
• "Another thing you should know about is that the first years always stand with the teachers on the first day."
• "Obviously it is pointless to expect from a group of first years the ability to pursue any great degree of abstraction in the preparation of a dance."
• "Jo left the school in the wake of a bunch of first years who made for the gate as if the building was on fire."
• "The first years always fancy an older man, mate."
• "There is a rumour going round the school that Claire Miles is throwing a party at Easter to celebrate her pregnancy. […] Of course it might not be true about the party. The stupid first years are always getting things wrong."