Example sentences of "in its [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Thus , in its first two years , the government 's reputation slumped sharply ; Mrs Thatcher 's ability to impose her personality upon it suffered accordingly . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In its first few years , it has developed a wide scheme of work including long courses , short courses , research and consultancy . |
| 11 | Give As You earn , as it is called , raised over £10m for charity in its first three years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In its first three years in office tax revenues from all sources increased as a proportion of national income . |
| 14 | The scheme , to be supervised by the Countryside Commission , will be granted £13 million in its first three years . |
| 15 | Because of the way that erm the school changed over from having a system of streaming in its first three years , to a system where mixed ability was introduced year by year from the first to the third year , I was able to follow two groups of pupils through the school — one lot of pupils in their streamed classes , and then another lot following them on in their mixed ability classes — and try and discover something about the differences in their experience of school in the two different modes , in the streamed and in the mixed ability classes . |
| 16 | Because of the way that the school changed over from having a system of streaming in its first three years to a system where mixed ability is introduced year by year from the first to third year , I was able to follow two groups of pupils through the school , one lot of pupils in their streamed classes and then another lot following them on in their mixed ability classes , and try and discover something about the differences in their experience of school in the two different modes , in the streamed and the mixed ability classes . |
| 17 | If an architecture fails to take over the mainstream computer market in its first ten years , it 's not likely ever to do so . |
| 18 | Estimates that the plant is likely to sustain losses of more than £3 billion in its first ten years have been published by an energy consultant , Colin Sweet , on behalf of the lobby group , Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment . |
| 19 | The discipline of information science , which attempts to study all the ways in which human beings communicate information with each other and the many facilities which make it easier to perform , is in its earliest formative years , and it will be a long time before we can be sure either that the science of information is a true discipline or that it can deliver its present optimistic promises . |