Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in the first few years groups did not appear to consider fundraising a priority . |
| 2 | The organisation expects that , in the first few years , half the visitors will come from France . |
| 3 | In the first few years of the informal concordat under the RAC , there appears to have been a tacit agreement that in Cambridgeshire the WEA attempted to provide few courses , largely it is thought because of its financial problems . |
| 4 | State socialism has not been very successful in transferring technology between countries , and has brought its own kind of exploitation ( as the Yugoslavs discovered in the first few years after the war ) . |
| 5 | In many cases the annual crops planted in the first few years are rapidly being replaced by pasture which itself is frequently proving to be uneconomic and environmentally detrimental . |
| 6 | In the first few years at Rangers , he was sent off for striking five different opponents . |
| 7 | The scholar , Hector Boece , first Principal of Aberdeen University , writing about Ayrshire in the first few years of the 16th century , observed that , , another indication of the age of the legend . |
| 8 | In the first few years of the 19th century , the manufacture of wooden snuff boxes — sneeshin' mulls , as they were known — began in Ayrshire in Auchinleck , Ochiltree and Cumnock . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The twins were demanding — in the first few years she thought she would go mad from lack of sleep and overwork — but at least they touched her and hugged her and kissed her and loved her . |
| 11 | In the first few years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Its component elements are absorbed in the first few years of life largely unconsciously , and later more deliberately by informal and formal learning processes . |
| 15 | Children who witness sexual intercourse in the first few years of their lives see it as a sort of ill-treatment , an assault by the man on the woman ; ‘ they view it that is in a sadistic sense ’ . |
| 16 | Larger , ‘ executive ’ cars are poorer value to buy new , because their value drops so sharply in the first few years . |
| 17 | It is , however absolutely essential to prohibit all growth of grass and weeds for a metre round each tree in the first few years and while this is fairly simple to achieve by spraying with something such as glyphsate or by using a weed suppressing mat , there is still a substantial area to cut . |
| 18 | Patsy was a sickly child , growing very little in the first few years of his life . |
| 19 | In the first few years in a district the officer learns about his territory as thoroughly as possible . |
| 20 | Is th another area that I did n't cover actually when when we were looking at the flats was erm , some people have s have around said that erm flats when they were first up in the first few years , erm were a contrast with the later years , in that erm they did n't have many of the problems , Many of the problems associated with the flats now , didn we were not in existence in the early days of the flats . |
| 21 | With a low-start , low-cost with-profits endowment , payments are reduced in the first few years , and the difference has to be made up in the remaining period . |
| 22 | 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 " . |
| 23 | The question of the birth rate was to be more crucial in the years after the Education Act , in the debates around the Royal Commission on Population , which reported in 1948–49 , but the existence of the commission itself from 1943 demonstrates public and official concern with such ideas in the first few years of the war . |
| 24 | The Group will continue to provide support for Central America Week in March , and will be investigating in the first few years of the five year period the possibility of raising the profile of the Andean countries . |
| 25 | He attached exteme , extreme importance to their visiting in the first few years . |
| 26 | My research in the following few years was to lead me first to Rennes-le-Chateau to check Wood 's discovery and then to Wiltshire 's Marlborough Downs , which have since also become home to the world 's corn circle phenomenon . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm going to be away increasingly in the next few years . |
| 28 | This would lead to a decline in the volume of less essential traffic in urban and rural areas and bring an overall reduction in all its adverse effects , including its contribution , through carbon dioxide , to global warming — certain to be very high on the political agenda in the next few years . |
| 29 | Look ahead — is your disability likely to get worse in the next few years ? |
| 30 | In the next few years there will be fewer young people and these tend to make up the majority of staff in many outlets , so caterers — and particularly the large chains — will come to rely more on automation in the near future . ’ |