Example sentences of "[art] first few years [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
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 Some of our final year students who were soon to be ordained , feeling the need for some kind of support system , especially during the first few years of ministry , decided to create their own cells .
4 In the first few years of marriage , before the decision to have a baby is made , reparative work is about intimate pairing and what was felt to have been betrayed in the first partnership of life with the main attachment figure .
5 Walnut was used for the bodies and necks during the first few years of production but later Gibson switched to mahogany as this proved to be a more stable material , with less material wastage during the timber selection procedure .
6 One consequence of the rise in private asset ownership among elderly people is that many of them do not suffer any drastic reduction of their ability to consume on retirement : indeed , tax changes in the 1970s that encouraged pension schemes to pay out some of their assets as a lump sum mean that many retirees experience an increase in their consumption propensity in the first few years of retirement .
7 For many years , both in the days of glassfibre and for the first few years of plastic , there was little variety in the shape of boats in general recreational use .
8 The first few years at school I learnt nothing —
9 In a careful review of the first few years after reorganisation , a group of academics from the London School of Economics assessed the performance of the new London local authorities ( Rhodes 1972 ) .
10 On April 14 Kaunda told Radio Zambia that in view of Zambia 's experiences in the first few years after independence , when more than one party had operated , " the question of whether the multiparty system will solve Zambia 's problems is a yes-and-no situation which has to be considered very cautiously " .
11 It is after the first few years in employment that the profiles diverge dramatically and again the male/female contrast is vivid .
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