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Example sentences for: started

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Cystometrograms were started approximately 3 minutes after each drug administration.
Since I have just recently started reading your advice column, I am not completely sure what your views are on sexual orientation.
"The Clinton-Gore administration started off as the Woodstock of 1969 ...
Reported teen-age drug use started climbing during the last year of the Bush presidency, after a dozen years of decline.
In November he started his Big Self-Portrait . Three years later, an Artforum interview referred to Close by his nickname, "Chuck"--which an assistant had scrawled on some photographs for the piece--and the name stuck as his professional moniker.