Example sentences of "the first [adj] years in " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the first two years in Ambleside have survived some good small wash drawings of scenes throughout the district . |
| 2 | For the first two years in government we will concentrate resources on the essential tasks of combating unemployment and poverty … |
| 3 | The emphasis in the first two years in the English classroom is on consolidating basic linguistic competence and ensuring that the pupils can read , comprehend and write effectively for a variety of purposes , including imaginative , argumentative and reflective writing . |
| 4 | In early February 1991 Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland had all begun negotiations on association agreements with the EC , which was offering a 10-year transition period to mutual free trade in two stages with asymmetrically large EC tariff cuts over the first five years in all sectors except agriculture , steel and textiles — the very areas where the three countries most desired access . |
| 5 | Design right lasts for 15 years from the end of the calendar year in which it was first recorded in a design document ( which includes storage in a computer ) or an article was made to the design , unless articles have been made available for sale or hire within the first five years in which case the right lasts only a further 10 years . |
| 6 | Quinton and Rutter ( 1983 ) quote a figure of fifty or more parent figures during the first five years in a residential nursery as being common . |
| 7 | A longitudinal study of over 1,100 young people has been extended to cover the first four years in the labour market , from ages 16 to 20 years . |
| 8 | Technology classes were ‘ acceptable ’ for the first three years in primary school . |
| 9 | Loss of organic matter in the upper layers of the soil was found to be at a rate of 9% per annum in the first 2 years in Trinidad , while after clear-felling and burning in Ghana , up to 13% was lost per annum and up to 33% of the cations . |
| 10 | It is after the first few years in employment that the profiles diverge dramatically and again the male/female contrast is vivid . |
| 11 | Prince Charles argued that they should be brought up initially by Mabel Anderson , his childhood nanny , and then a governess employed to educate the boys for the first few years in the privacy of Kensington Palace . |
| 12 | In the first few years in a district the officer learns about his territory as thoroughly as possible . |