Example sentences of "in [pron] first years " in BNC.

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1 Every teacher probably derives more from the first teacher with whom he works than any other and I have no doubt in my mind that Basil was by far the most influential person in my first years as a teacher .
2 The graduate courses are targeted at students in their first years at university , and the Masters at post-graduates or professionals with experience .
3 At whatever level we are working ( be it with children in their first years in school , or with adults ) the first engagement with the work comes through dramatic tension of some kind .
4 Drama with children in their first years of school differs from drama with older children only in content and organisation , not in basic approaches to the subject .
5 The Daily Mail sold well over 200,000 copies daily in its first years and reached half-a-million sales after three years .
6 All the ambitions and aspirations which had animated the Criterion in its first years had either been abandoned or destroyed .
7 The most important vehicle for this , the Dante Alighieri Society , founded in 1889 , soon became a semi-official purveyor of cultural propaganda , notably in the Trentino , the most important focus of its activities in its first years .
8 That seems to have been his view in his first years as archbishop .
9 Sometimes he acted too hastily or was too reluctant to compromise , and in his first years in the White House he had to endure some harsh criticism .
10 In his first years he developed his interests in stratigraphy of the Chalk and in Pleistocene and Recent deposits , before he was transferred to the Lake District .
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