Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [prep] the first year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voices of Surkov and Rozanov on tape , played over and over in my study in the first year or so after our meeting , had brought their living presence to me ; but later , as those tapes were discarded in favour of over-scrawled typewritten pages , Surkov and Rozanov increasingly became characters under my control , their improvisations almost lost under the refinements of a thousand and one nights ( and days ) of my own labour . |
| 2 | The hotel has targeted its occupancy for the first year at 55 per cent , which , Mr Nitschke says , is realistic . |
| 3 | Many mothers do not even try to toilet train their children until the age of 2 years or later while others deliberately train their child during the first year of life ( Douglas and Richman 1984 ) . |
| 4 | Studies in Minnesota have shown that once machines come in , racetracks lose 20–30% of their business in the first year . |
| 5 | One study of Scottish babies showed that 90 per cent of mothers started to train their babies during the first year with half of the middle class and a quarter of the working class starting before 6 months of age ( Drillien 1964 ) . |
| 6 | A triumph of the 1991 Avignon Festival the company , Ches Panses Vertes from Picardy , create vivid with sombre imagery of the battlefield with a structure of sand and barbed wire … a mystical garden in which two men re-enact with tiny wire figures some of the experiences of Cendrars and his experiences of Cendrars and his companions during the first year of the 1914–18 war . |
| 7 | Even with such a drastic cut , we estimated our losses for the first year as being in the region of £148,000 . |
| 8 | It just means that we would like that because we know we 've covered all our costs in the first year and the second year is nice profit . |
| 9 | Of these , up to three quarters of your contributions in the first year will go as commission to the broker or sales representative . |