Example sentences of "in their first [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Their relative slowness to act in their first two years in office was partly due to the continuing revenue problem . |
| 3 | All students pursue , in their first two years , a course in Mathematics , and one in Language study . |
| 4 | Students in all three degrees also study mathematics in their first two years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There is especially favourable treatment for partnerships in their first few years of trading and , similarly , special rules apply when a ‘ cessation ’ occurs . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | To some , they represent the ‘ third arm ’ of housing policy , although in their first 20 years their activity was mainly in urban areas . |