Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the first [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because HAI was in its infancy , in every job he filled during the first few years he had an American opposite number , sometimes with 30 years ' experience of the industry . |
| 2 | Its component elements are absorbed in the first few years of life largely unconsciously , and later more deliberately by informal and formal learning processes . |
| 3 | The CAT scanner which the hospital wants for its X ray department will cost £600,000 to buy and run for the first few years . |
| 4 | The Group will continue to provide support for Central America Week in March , and will be investigating in the first few years of the five year period the possibility of raising the profile of the Andean countries . |
| 5 | State socialism has not been very successful in transferring technology between countries , and has brought its own kind of exploitation ( as the Yugoslavs discovered in the first few years after the war ) . |
| 6 | For example , one of the skills developed in the first few years of life involves the integration of data arriving through the different sensory channels . |
| 7 | With a low-start , low-cost with-profits endowment , payments are reduced in the first few years , and the difference has to be made up in the remaining period . |
| 8 | Sometimes grace periods are granted which means that no repayment of the loan 's principal is required for the first few years . |
| 9 | In many cases the annual crops planted in the first few years are rapidly being replaced by pasture which itself is frequently proving to be uneconomic and environmentally detrimental . |