Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] first [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | A single budded standard , or a double where one has failed , can look distinctly lop-sided for the first few years until it has had time to develop — this is the sort of stuff you have to watch out for in the cheap ‘ end of season nursery clearance sales ’ and street markets . |
| 2 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 3 | Newson and Newson ( 1.3 ) suggest that it is only in this century that questions about how to bring up children have been widely discussed ; hitherto the niceties of different child-rearing philosophies were set aside in the face of a more fundamental dilemma , whether children would survive at all beyond the first few years . |
| 4 | Patsy was a sickly child , growing very little in the first few years of his life . |
| 5 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 6 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 7 | He attached exteme , extreme importance to their visiting in the first few years . |