Example sentences of "[pron] first [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no interest to declare in the construction industry , but during my first 10 years in that industry I worked for John Laing , then I worked for Wimpey for about eight years , and I was the head of the largest direct labour organisation in the country — the Greater London council — for nearly three years . |
| 2 | Now , thirty years later , I feel a great regret for the father of my first four years , who took me out , and who probably loved me , irresponsibly ( " it 's all right for him ; he does n't have to look after you " ) , and I wish I could tell him now , even though he was , in my sister 's words , a sod , that I 'm sorry for my years of rejection and dislike . |
| 3 | My main task in my first five years in Burma was to tour the villages of the Irrawaddy Delta , encouraging the small Anglican congregations and visiting some forty village schools , most of them having only one or two teachers . |
| 4 | I believe that the lessons learnt from my first five years of trial and error could have been imparted to me in a few days by any half-decent panner . |
| 5 | In fact , during my first two years at the school , this was almost the sole topic of conversation . |
| 6 | I think I have sufficiently erased most of my first eighteen years , puréed them into harmless baby food . |
| 7 | I was the centre of their universe and my first seven years sped by in a whirl of buckskin shoes , party frocks , pet rabbits and circus trips . |
| 8 | In my first few years in the London activist network I was several times courted ( it seems the only appropriate word ) to join currently all-male organizations as a token lesbian but none of them offered , alongside the assumption that this would be a privileged or welcome position , the incentive that Switchboard did : the callers . |
| 9 | In my first few years in Parliament , the building industry experienced a tremendous downturn in its work load and was worried about its future . |
| 10 | Well , I survived my time with Seve , and in my first full year with Sandy I thought he was going to come up trumps straight away in the Open . |
| 11 | ‘ During my first 20 years at Stirling most of the students I saw and advised were able to fulfil their aspirations . |
| 12 | I spent the greater part of my first twenty-one years , sleeping in the first floor back , a room somewhat smaller than my mother and father 's . |
| 13 | In my first ten years of headship over 100 families used the service which the school provided , often returning to share with the group the progress which had been made and to comment on the ways in which their children had responded to the advice they had been given . |
| 14 | In the three Education Acts passed during their first nine years of power , the Conservative government has made parental influence and involvement a central issue . |
| 15 | During their first four years as qualified drivers , they persistently followed the vehicle in front too closely , overtook perilously , raced other cars and jumped red lights . |
| 16 | Throughout their first five years at school , science , mathematics , and design and technology would occupy 50 per cent of their time , the rest being divided between all the arts subjects , including English , and games and PE . |
| 17 | Gairdner , who examined a large number of normal children during their first five years of life , observed that at birth only 4% of children had fully retractile prepuces , while in half the prepuce was partially retractile . |
| 18 | Before that all the students had taken a course which qualified them to teach children for their first five years in school . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's a fact that in the first 12 months one in three firms will close and in the longer term 900pc of new companies will shut in their first five years . ’ |
| 20 | The federal pump-priming for their establishment , eventually extended to cover their first eight years , was not intended to support them for the long term . |
| 21 | The honours and ordinary degrees have their first two years in common . |
| 22 | For their first two years in office the government acted very cautiously on social issues . |
| 23 | Their relative slowness to act in their first two years in office was partly due to the continuing revenue problem . |
| 24 | All students pursue , in their first two years , a course in Mathematics , and one in Language study . |
| 25 | For the MA(Honours) , students also study Islamic History during their first two years . |
| 26 | Students in all three degrees also study mathematics in their first two years . |
| 27 | To some , they represent the ‘ third arm ’ of housing policy , although in their first 20 years their activity was mainly in urban areas . |
| 28 | Investment programmes were consistently cut back and the BEA remained short of power station capacity at peak times throughout their first ten years . |
| 29 | Indeed , they boasted proudly that retail electricity prices had risen more slowly than the retail price index in general : although their own tariffs had risen faster , average consumption had gone up and the extra kWh had been sold at the lower incremental charges of two-part or block tariffs , thus bringing the average domestic price in their first ten years down by a fifth in real terms . |
| 30 | No other organisation needed to meet such a rapidly expanding demand for a single product that they had , in effect , to build one new factory every two months , as the BEA did during their first ten years . |