Example sentences of "in [pron] first [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In my first few years in Parliament , the building industry experienced a tremendous downturn in its work load and was worried about its future . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Their relative slowness to act in their first two years in office was partly due to the continuing revenue problem . |
| 7 | All students pursue , in their first two years , a course in Mathematics , and one in Language study . |
| 8 | Students in all three degrees also study mathematics in their first two years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | More importantly , the Housing Act 1988 proposes to create Housing Action Trusts ( HATs ) that would be centrally-appointed bodies with planned resources of £125 million in their first three years of existence . |
| 11 | There are still very few schools that have mixed ability groups in all of their first three years , but more and more school are introducing some mixed ability group in their first three years , and about thirty per cent have mixed ability grouping in their first year now . |
| 12 | There are still very few schools that have mixed ability groups in all of their first three years , but more and more schools are introducing some mixed ability groups in their first three years and about thirty per cent have mixed ability grouping in their first year now , something around fifteen per cent have mixed ability in the first three years . |
| 13 | Houck had personally followed the histories of two reactors in Missouri ( Callaway ) and Kansas ( Wolf Creek ) which were prototypes for Hinkley C. Both had cost three times their original budget — $3 billion apiece — and had been plagued with teething problems in their first few years of operation . |
| 14 | There is especially favourable treatment for partnerships in their first few years of trading and , similarly , special rules apply when a ‘ cessation ’ occurs . |
| 15 | The better arrangement would be to renegotiate the restraints to protect the goodwill which it is hoped will accrue to the new firms in their first few years of business after the demerger . |
| 16 | To some , they represent the ‘ third arm ’ of housing policy , although in their first 20 years their activity was mainly in urban areas . |
| 17 | Jones 's book remained untouched on the shelves of Northumbria 's modest library in its first two years , even though it had good reviews ; and the influence of his research has been all but negligible . |
| 18 | Thus , in its first two years , the government 's reputation slumped sharply ; Mrs Thatcher 's ability to impose her personality upon it suffered accordingly . |
| 19 | From small beginnings the LNU recruited 60,000 members in its first two years , and 600,000 — including half the MPs in the House of Commons — by 1926 . |
| 20 | Speaking to 300 people at a national Labour Party rally at the Dolphin Centre , she vowed that a Labour government would set up 6,000 nursery and after school places in its first two years . |
| 21 | Documents published by BNFL state that the plant will earn £950 million for the UK and £1,800 million for BNFL in its first 10 years , but contain no comparison of the cost of reprocessing with that of storage of nuclear waste , or any assessment of the revenue BNFL could earn from storage of its customers ' waste . |
| 22 | But equally , MDC in its first eight years was not a major generator of jobs — and the individual cost of those created was extremely high . |
| 23 | Moreover , despite the conservatism in design , the capital cost per MW of generating stations did decline in real terms , by more than a quarter in the period affected by the BEA 's decisions in its first five years , a decline almost as rapid as that achieved later . |
| 24 | An example of one of the more successful RMCs is the Anglian which in its first four years set about becoming a centre of excellence . |
| 25 | There will , no doubt , be the usual trimming of the sums requested ( about $2 billion over four years ) , but there is unlikely to be root and branch objection of the kind raised by Mrs Margaret Thatcher 's British government in its first few years . |
| 26 | In its first few years , it has developed a wide scheme of work including long courses , short courses , research and consultancy . |
| 27 | Give As You earn , as it is called , raised over £10m for charity in its first three years . |
| 28 | The National Government in its first three years thus operated on the curious basis of the Prime Minister depending to an unusual extent on the second man in the Government , and that second man in turn depending to an equally unusual extent upon the second man in his own party . |
| 29 | In its first three years in office tax revenues from all sources increased as a proportion of national income . |
| 30 | The scheme , to be supervised by the Countryside Commission , will be granted £13 million in its first three years . |