101.   A group of Hartlepool women have successfully taken the first step towards a career in creche work.

102.   Moreover, the commercial approach now evident suggests that this is merely a first step towards privatisation.

103.   PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin appeared last night to have narrowly won a reprieve after the Russian parliament had voted overwhelmingly to take the first step towards his possible impeachment.

104.   Although this may seem somewhat esoteric it is the first step towards understanding the concepts of population and sample with which this text began.

105.   DEFENDING champion Jo Durie took a decisive first step towards her seventh title in the Volkswagen National championships at Telford today.

106.   The painstaking steps towards releasing a captive barn owl into the wild involve taking the chick from the parent at the age of four to five weeks.

107.   An external consultant was called in and the first steps towards a safer environment were taken with the installation of signs indicating emergency exits and fire extinguishers.

108.   Because Brutus was such an idealistic character he felt that he would have to take important steps towards saving Rome from the evil grasp of Caesar.

109.   If this helps only a few teachers it would still be one step towards our goal of all participants in classes joining the Society.

110.   And it was ping-pong that helped expose Americans to the Chinese in the first step towards a thaw between their countries.