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

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1 There are also a lot of advantages in acquisition accountancy which can provide a sort of beer mat for the first years while you are trying to put the businesses together , and of course we did n't have these in the merger .
2 The Zimbabwe Scientific Programme ( ZIMSCI ) project is designed to support teachers not trained in science and to provide a complete science package with low-cost kits for the first years of secondary school .
3 In practice , however , and particularly for the first years , what happened in labs was strictly controlled by the department .
4 For the first years of the Whig period after The Reform Act of 1832 , the government 's financial policies had seemed successful , but a change for the worse was now taking place .
5 For the first years with Sarah my life was a happy one .
6 For the first years or so of the war , oil and gas operations , setting aside the damaged Gulf terminals and the dislocation of the northern pipeline , continued very much as during the previous decade .
7 It 's all right for the first years now cos they 're never even gon na know about it .
8 Helen , however , was still imprisoned in the fears and longings that had marked her life during the first years of puberty and was obsessed with the idea that she would never marry and have children .
9 During the first years of the Federal Republic , from 1949 to 1953 , when the Right was staging something of a recovery , attempts had been made to distinguish between ‘ insane Hitlerism ’ and the positive aspects of National Socialism .
10 All his actions — still more his inactivity — during the first years of his archiepiscopate were based on this idea of partnership .
11 During the first years of the women 's life in the community , the full-time team of health authority support workers has been regularly understaffed , with temporary cover being provided by a private nursing agency .
12 Thus what is interesting about the women 's magazines in England during the first years of the twentieth century is not the content of the advice given on child rearing , but the fact that so little advice is given at all ; sometimes , from one year to the next , children are barely mentioned save for the occasional appealing illustrations , the pattern for a christening bonnet or the recipe for a nursery pudding .
13 His father , Giovanni , fled Lucca in 1567 because of his Reformed faith , and lived subsequently in France , Antwerp , Germany , and then London , where , during the first years of James I 's reign , he founded an influential merchant-banking house with his son-in-law , Philip Burlamachi [ q.v . ] .
14 When , during the first years of their friendship , at Braque 's suggestion he and Picasso stopped signing their works they were automatically emphasizing the autonomous existence of their creations .
15 Relations with the USA , which had improved during the first years of Rajiv Gandhi 's government , came under strain in 1987 due to the US decision to grant large military aid packages to Pakistan , including early warning surveillance aircraft , and to Indian fears of a Pakistani nuclear bomb .
16 His place was taken by Sir Herbert Samuel , Postmaster General during the first years of the King 's reign .
17 Germany also began during the first years of the twentieth century to make some patchy and sporadic provision of much the same kind for her trade interests abroad .
18 The question they will ask you , very frequently is , during the first years of the plan , there is a reduced allocation to units .
19 It pushes back , to a disconcertingly early period in Pound 's life , the first signs of that aridity , that closing of the doors of perception , which — drastically arrested and reversed though it was , at Pisa and through the first years at St Elizabeth 's — reasserted itself and wreaked the desolation of Thrones .
20 Finally , to help you formulate your business plans and guide you through the first years , The Institute of Business counsellors is offering ten business counselling sessions for the first three prize winners and five each for the three runners-up .
21 The army 's pioneering role , its part in the coup of 1969 , the military background of the members of the Revolutionary Command Council , were the chief reasons civilians did not control the army : after the first years of the revolution there was no ministry or secretariat for defence or aggression in Libya , and the National and local Assemblies did not discuss military affairs .
22 But then the civil war of the first years of the new century caused what was virtually the collapse of the French army , a collapse confirmed by the defeat at Agincourt at the hands of English men-at-arms and archers .
23 One of the most notable features of the first years of the invasions was the development of monasticism in southern Gaul .
24 On Thursdays I go to music lesson and erm , we have this singing contest erm , we come second out of the first years , and we sung Mole in a Hole .
25 Even throughout the first years of her marriage , she remained the dutiful wife , never complaining when her husband wanted to involve her in the country life .
26 Propaganda films from the first years of the Soviet system show enthusiastic crowds , and sometimes , in the background , weeping elderly women , watching the officially sanctioned looting of churches , which were then demolished or turned into granaries or museums of ‘ scientific atheism ’ .
27 Russia , from the first years of the eighteenth century onwards , is the most important exception to this generalisation .
28 It is true that she has not always got her own way in Cabinet , particularly in the first years .
29 Most scientists expect that it will show , as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki , that low doses of radiation have no detectable effect on humans or animals in the first years after an accident .
30 The house was built for Earl Fitzwilliam in the first years of the 19th century by John Carr of York , then in his 80s .
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