Example sentences of "in the first years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The genesis of BT in the first years at Basle is , we shall see , problematic . |
| 2 | The house was built for Earl Fitzwilliam in the first years of the 19th century by John Carr of York , then in his 80s . |
| 3 | Before they acquired firearms in the first years of the |
| 4 | The happiness and general enthusiasm that children of all types experience in the first years of primary school evaporate as they become adolescent ant move into the secondary school . |
| 5 | In the first years of ‘ stabilization ’ , the government put in place various measures , including feeding programmes , to assist the most vulnerable groups in society . |
| 6 | Drop-outs in the first years of primary education remain very high . |
| 7 | After declining sharply up to 1979 its share of both stabilized in the first years of the Thatcher government , only to fall once more into the late 1980s . |
| 8 | This , it was argued , suggested that in the first years of life the two hemispheres have similar linguistic abilities and that the left side became dominant only as speech itself developed . |
| 9 | Today the express coach has much the same sort of function In the first years of the century the number of interurbans grew rapidly . |
| 10 | The KPP argument made sense , but they compromised this position by claiming that the Ukrainian and Silesian territories seized in the first years of independence should also be returned to their respective ‘ owners ’ . |
| 11 | In the first years of the nineteenth century the town of Inverkeithing was controlled by an officer of the Royal Marines named David Ballingall , and Colonel Ballingall left the Lord Advocate in no doubt that he was most unhappy with his removal from an appointment as an inspecting field officer . |
| 12 | In the first years of their married life , Diana made several suicide bids and numerous threats . |
| 13 | In non-metropolitan districts as a whole the rate of population growth in the first years of the 1980s was less than half what it had been a decade earlier , though again most of the fall preceded 1978 . |
| 14 | The considerable post-Boer War concern about children was reflected in the amount of legislative attention paid to them in the first years of the Liberal government . |
| 15 | In the first years of the twenties Boulestin had been dabbling , in a small way , in picture dealing , starting off promisingly with a Modigliani bought in Paris for £12 and sold in London for £90 . |
| 16 | It would be very carefully calculated and they 'd be given the right amount of the proteins that they could use to grow , because in the first years of life there 's very rapid growth and development is n't there ? |
| 17 | Eardwulf met and countered a succession of threats from rival aethelings in the first years of his reign . |
| 18 | Although you pay less interest in the first years of a deferred interest mortgage , you are being charged the prevailing rate during the deferred term . |
| 19 | In the first years of her elephant sanctuary , many of the young ones died . |
| 20 | This is what the UK SMC seeks to exploit by setting unusual , but meaningful problems that pupils in the first years of secondary school want to solve . |
| 21 | They began to regain lost ground in the first years of muhammad Reza 's reign , were probably involved in his attempt assassination in 1949 , succeeded in killing the prime minister in 1951 , and initially allied themselves with Dr Mossadeq 's campaign to nationalize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company . |
| 22 | Even the Symbolist view ( which held sway in Russia in the first years of the century ) that ‘ art is thinking in images ’ can not be admitted , because although it acknowledges that thought in art takes a different form from conventional philosophy , it will in the end lead the study of art beyond art itself to forms of knowing and feeling , to epistemology and psychology . |
| 23 | It was relatively easy to do in the first years of the regime , with a war- and hunger-cowed populace , a subsistence-level economy , and a country cut off from the outside world . |
| 24 | Most of the growth was concentrated in the later decades of the nineteenth century and still more in the first years of the twentieth . |
| 25 | Indeed so high was their reputation for self-denial in this respect that in the first years of the twentieth century the brothers Paul and Jules Cambon , French ambassadors in London and Berlin respectively , entrusted their private correspondence regularly to the British diplomatic bag rather than sending it through the French ministry of foreign affairs or the French post office : if either of these channels had been used it would almost certainly have been opened and read . |
| 26 | Under the Third Republic coded diplomatic telegrams were passed as a matter of course to the French foreign office by the postal authorities to be decoded and read ; and this activity reached a climax in the first years of the twentieth century . |
| 27 | The giving of often lavish presents to diplomats when they left a court to which they had been accredited , when a treaty was signed between two states or a special embassy of congratulation or condolence was sent , still a widespread practice in the first years of the nineteenth century , fairly soon became unimportant . |
| 28 | A British experiment in the first years of the twentieth century with commercial secretaries , diplomats detailed for a few years to make a special study of the trade of the area in which they were stationed , had little effect . |
| 29 | But in the first years of the twentieth century the scale of such efforts sharply increased . |
| 30 | In the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries such methods were more difficult to use ; but the press bureaux with which more and more of the foreign offices of Europe were now equipping themselves ( the Habsburg empire in 1879 , Russia in the first years of the twentieth century , Sweden in 1909 ) were used increasingly to channel information to foreign journalists and news agencies and thus , it was hoped , create a favourable climate of opinion . |