Example sentences of "the first years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It pushes back , to a disconcertingly early period in Pound 's life , the first signs of that aridity , that closing of the doors of perception , which — drastically arrested and reversed though it was , at Pisa and through the first years at St Elizabeth 's — reasserted itself and wreaked the desolation of Thrones . |
| 2 | The genesis of BT in the first years at Basle is , we shall see , problematic . |
| 3 | The first years at Basle were , for Nietzsche , the Tribschen years . |
| 4 | For the first years with Sarah my life was a happy one . |
| 5 | Helen , however , was still imprisoned in the fears and longings that had marked her life during the first years of puberty and was obsessed with the idea that she would never marry and have children . |
| 6 | Fortunately , in addition to Helen Thomas 's absorbing , unselfconscious account of their courtship and the first years of their marriage , letters still survive which chart the growth of love . |
| 7 | During the first years of the Federal Republic , from 1949 to 1953 , when the Right was staging something of a recovery , attempts had been made to distinguish between ‘ insane Hitlerism ’ and the positive aspects of National Socialism . |
| 8 | The army 's pioneering role , its part in the coup of 1969 , the military background of the members of the Revolutionary Command Council , were the chief reasons civilians did not control the army : after the first years of the revolution there was no ministry or secretariat for defence or aggression in Libya , and the National and local Assemblies did not discuss military affairs . |
| 9 | The house was built for Earl Fitzwilliam in the first years of the 19th century by John Carr of York , then in his 80s . |
| 10 | Before they acquired firearms in the first years of the |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Zimbabwe Scientific Programme ( ZIMSCI ) project is designed to support teachers not trained in science and to provide a complete science package with low-cost kits for the first years of secondary school . |
| 13 | In the first years of ‘ stabilization ’ , the government put in place various measures , including feeding programmes , to assist the most vulnerable groups in society . |
| 14 | Drop-outs in the first years of primary education remain very high . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Today the express coach has much the same sort of function In the first years of the century the number of interurbans grew rapidly . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | Even throughout the first years of her marriage , she remained the dutiful wife , never complaining when her husband wanted to involve her in the country life . |
| 20 | Propaganda films from the first years of the Soviet system show enthusiastic crowds , and sometimes , in the background , weeping elderly women , watching the officially sanctioned looting of churches , which were then demolished or turned into granaries or museums of ‘ scientific atheism ’ . |
| 21 | The first years of that decade were spent largely making B-pictures and westerns . |
| 22 | All his actions — still more his inactivity — during the first years of his archiepiscopate were based on this idea of partnership . |
| 23 | The first years of Tethlis 's reign saw the assembling of new armies . |
| 24 | The first years of nationalisation were thus regularly punctuated by government demands for consideration of rationing by price or by direct load limitation . |
| 25 | The central event of the former 's pontificate can hardly fail to be seen as Humanae Vitae in 1968 , central because its publication marked a watershed separating the first years of enthusiasm , of an optimistic post-conciliar implementation in which Rome and leading Catholic theologians were still working more or less hand in hand ( as they had done in the latter years of the Council ) from the far more contestatory and unsure later period . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | During the first years of the women 's life in the community , the full-time team of health authority support workers has been regularly understaffed , with temporary cover being provided by a private nursing agency . |
| 28 | In the first years of their married life , Diana made several suicide bids and numerous threats . |
| 29 | But then the civil war of the first years of the new century caused what was virtually the collapse of the French army , a collapse confirmed by the defeat at Agincourt at the hands of English men-at-arms and archers . |
| 30 | 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 . |