"first year" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1969 March 13, Charlie Dickins, “[Editorial]”, in Woroni, volume 21, number 2, Canberra: A.N.U. Students’ Association; Canberra Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., page 2",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1979, Alan Bleasdale, No More Sitting on the Old School Bench, Huddersfield, W.Y.: Woodhouse Books, published 1983, page 30",
          "text": "Another thing you should know about is that the first years always stand with the teachers on the first day.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, Rita Allcock, Wendy Bland, Dance in Education, London: Dance Books Ltd, page 8",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Linda Mather, chapter 23, in Blood of an Aries, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, published 1994, page 193",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Jasmin Oliver, Gucci Girls: Cutting It, London: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, page 7",
          "text": "The first years always fancy an older man, mate.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Helen Ryan, A Year in the Life of Rachel, [Drogheda]: Choice Publishing & Book Services Ltd, page 54",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A first-year student."
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          "ref": "1992, Christopher Brickell, editor, The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening, London: BCA by arrangement with Dorling Kindersley, published 1994, page 207, column 1",
          "text": "The use of sterilized compost when planting should minimize problems with weeds, at least for the first years.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Phyllis Koch-Sheras, Peter Sheras, Lifelong Love: 4 Steps to Creating and Maintaining an Extraordinary Relationship, Harlequin, page 142",
          "text": "For many couples, the first years seem to go the best.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 May 28, Ian S. Port, “Second Acts”, in SF Weekly, volume 33, number 19, San Francisco, Calif.: SF Weekly, LP, →ISSN, page 38",
          "text": "First years are always hard for festivals.",
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first, year."
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          "ref": "1969 March 13, Charlie Dickins, “[Editorial]”, in Woroni, volume 21, number 2, Canberra: A.N.U. Students’ Association; Canberra Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., page 2",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1979, Alan Bleasdale, No More Sitting on the Old School Bench, Huddersfield, W.Y.: Woodhouse Books, published 1983, page 30",
          "text": "Another thing you should know about is that the first years always stand with the teachers on the first day.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, Rita Allcock, Wendy Bland, Dance in Education, London: Dance Books Ltd, page 8",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Linda Mather, chapter 23, in Blood of an Aries, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, published 1994, page 193",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2005, Jasmin Oliver, Gucci Girls: Cutting It, London: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, page 7",
          "text": "The first years always fancy an older man, mate.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Helen Ryan, A Year in the Life of Rachel, [Drogheda]: Choice Publishing & Book Services Ltd, page 54",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1992, Christopher Brickell, editor, The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening, London: BCA by arrangement with Dorling Kindersley, published 1994, page 207, column 1",
          "text": "The use of sterilized compost when planting should minimize problems with weeds, at least for the first years.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Phyllis Koch-Sheras, Peter Sheras, Lifelong Love: 4 Steps to Creating and Maintaining an Extraordinary Relationship, Harlequin, page 142",
          "text": "For many couples, the first years seem to go the best.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 May 28, Ian S. Port, “Second Acts”, in SF Weekly, volume 33, number 19, San Francisco, Calif.: SF Weekly, LP, →ISSN, page 38",
          "text": "First years are always hard for festivals.",
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        }
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