Example sentences of "the first three years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Mexico , the private sector was able to take advantage of the new seeds , but the peasants on ejido land , often unable to get credit and farming for the first three years without fertilisers were not so productive . |
| 2 | During the first three years of full-time drug squad work ( 1966–8 ) arrests totalled some sixty-four persons — or less than two per month . |
| 3 | The figures in the first three years of the Long-Term Costing are detailed and relatively firm because they are fixed by the Public Expenditure Survey Committee each year — hence they are referred to in Whitehall jargon as the PESC years . |
| 4 | In the first three years of a Service 's Long-Term Costing after the actual estimates year , there seems to be a bow-wave of requirements that can not be fitted into the programme . |
| 5 | Most repossessions take place within the first three years of taking out a mortgage . |
| 6 | Mark Twain 's Innocents Abroad , an account of his travels in Europe and the Near East , published in 1869 , sold about 125,000 copies within the first three years of publication . |
| 7 | The rates payable per hectare ( last reviewed in January 1980 ) are £30.56 , £20.67 and £10.52 over the first three years of the plan , respectively . |
| 8 | The sample size for the first three years of the Social Attitudes Survey was between 1700 and 1800 . |
| 9 | During the first three years of life the young child will venture out from and return to the secure base of a parent 's presence when conducting expeditions into unfamiliar territory . |
| 10 | Most were within the first three years of taking out a mortgage and among people who bought property early in 1988 on over-generous terms that stretched monthly payments to the limits . |
| 11 | Results for the first three years of the experiment show that serious injury accidents fell by two-thirds and light injury accidents by one third . |
| 12 | In the first three years of the experiment not a single pedestrian was injured seriously enough while crossing the road to feel that it warranted reporting . |
| 13 | In the first three years of trading , the haulier should be careful not to make any chargeable gains for tax purposes . |
| 14 | The critical time for an adverse effect on language development is during the first three years of life ( Sak and Ruben 1981 ; Zinkus et al . |
| 15 | In some cases the first three years of life are spent in this ward before transfer to a children 's home . ’ |
| 16 | In a city with 12 per cent unemployment 300 recent placements have resulted in an over 90 per cent job retention rate after the first three years of employment . |
| 17 | Although the CD4 counts of the 877 people given AZT were consistently greater than those of patients receiving only placebo , the first three years of follow-up have shown that the proportions of people in the two groups progressing to overt AIDS or even to death were not significantly different at roughly 18 per cent . |
| 18 | But , even so , thanks in part to the new legislation , in part to the administrative machinery of the Court of Wards , and in part to the provision that monastic lands be sold as tenancies-in-chief , the income from feudal dues rose from £4,434 in 1542 to an average of £7,700 per annum in the first three years of Edward VI . |
| 19 | In consultation with the Project Coordinating Team , six schools were selected for study in some depth , two from each of the first three years of the project . |
| 20 | Some DM2.15 billion ( US$1.36 billion ) has been set aside by the research ministry , the BMFT , to support the first three years of the plan . |
| 21 | N. lapillus grows for the first three years of its life ( but see p. 307 ) , and then usually marks the onset of sexual maturity by thickening the shell lip and laying down a row of white dentiform tubercles-usually known as " teeth " " -along the inside edge ( Fig. 17 ) . |
| 22 | We have three levels of communicative assessments ( covering roughly the first three years of the secondary curriculum ) which I coordinate on behalf of EMREB and the LEAs . |
| 23 | Professional Studies in the early years of schooling is a course which extends throughout the first three years of the degree . |
| 24 | Special educational needs was always a much more prominent aspect of the work of Phase 1 coordinators than of those in Phases 2 or 3 , and for the first three years of PNP SEN was the dominant coordinator task in Phase 1 . |
| 25 | But the development of a child 's body and mind in the first three years of life is absolutely vital — any stunting of growth in these years can not be made up for in later life . |
| 26 | The CASE projects aim at least to double this proportion in the first three years of secondary schooling by developing new teaching skills in science teachers . |
| 27 | Furthermore , the researchers aim to discover what managerial and organisational problems the sample experienced in the first three years of their firm 's existence , how the role of owner/manager has influenced family life and the attitude of the sample towards the growth and development of their organisations . |
| 28 | Clearly , then , the first three years of the patent had not yielded any net benefit to the employer , although the latter readily conceded that the undeveloped patent was itself a ‘ key development ’ and a ‘ world beater ’ . |
| 29 | Fontana et al showed that in the first three years of life 97% of helthy children had at least one vowel movement every other day and after the third year , 95% of the children had this pattern . |
| 30 | The first three years of de Gaulle 's presidency were dominated by the Algerian war . |