Example sentences of "first [num] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first three years he endured abject misery . |
| 2 | However , other firms operating similar machines have found that after the first three years it becomes increasingly more costly in terms of repairs and maintenance to keep machinery of this type productive . |
| 3 | By the time CAMRA celebrated its first ten years it could pride itself on a large national membership and a series of hardhitting reports that had exposed the market domination of the big brewers and the shoddy beers they produced . |
| 4 | During the first ten years he developed many new lines , and the earliest existing price-list ( 1842 ) offers sixteen varieties of drinking chocolate and eleven cocoas . |
| 5 | It had been a shock to discover that for the first five years they went to homes in the country where women were paid to nurse them , and it seemed to put a stop to any hope of seeing Angel again . |
| 6 | Over the first five years he introduced new locomotive designs and continued the development of the main-line ‘ Pacific ’ type , incorporating detailed improvements pioneered by George Jackson Churchward [ q.v. ] of the Great Western , whose work he greatly admired . |
| 7 | For the first twenty years he was confined in prison-like conditions , somewhat alleviated at Broadmoor , where terraces allowed views of the surrounding countryside . |
| 8 | ‘ In the first two years we will establish 6,000 nursery and after school places and offer staff the chance to choose the hours they work , ’ she said . |
| 9 | In his first two years he taught only bits of course but later , when the well-remembered Stuart Armstrong left to take up a post in Australia , he became responsible for teaching Soil Mechanics , although he continued to teach ‘ everything but hydraulics ’ . |
| 10 | For those first two years I was able to enjoy behaving childishly — a pleasure which I felt had been denied to me — and being relatively free from responsibility . |
| 11 | ‘ I found that within the first two years I more than trebled my external income simply because I was entertaining at a large conference-style table in a nicely furnished area . |
| 12 | I often wish I could live them over again , even though for the first four years I had to supplement my poor earnings by doing evening jobs . ’ |
| 13 | In the first four years it nearly halved the PSBR , or borrowing requirement , from 5 per cent of GDP in 1978 — 9 to 2.7 per cent in 1982 — 3 and Britain had a markedly tighter fiscal stance than her Western European neighbours . |