Example sentences of "in the first ten years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The upshot of these pressures for self-financing was that in the first ten years some 36 per cent of the industry 's investment was internally financed : £488 millions from depreciation allowances and £98 millions from surplus after interest payments . |
| 2 | What was the upshot for resource allocation of the wrangles between the Electricity Boards and Whitehall in the first ten years of nationalisation ? |
| 3 | The large wartime backlog of investment left considerable scope for economies in new investment , as in the first ten years the length of distribution mains in service were extended by nearly a third . |
| 4 | In the first ten years of nationalisation the proportion in fact declined to around a third . |
| 5 | More than 2.7 million new houses were built in the first ten years of nationalisation , and 1954 , the peak year of Macmillan 's housing drive , saw 354000 completed . |
| 6 | In the first ten years of nationalisation , the ‘ age of affluence ’ was , for most people , still on the horizon , though the taste for consumer durables was visibly spreading . |
| 7 | Their success in winning this load ( which formed the bulk of domestic sales ) explains why domestic consumers accounted for almost a third of the Area Boards ' sales in the first ten years , rather more than was typical in other industrialised countries . |
| 8 | The bulk supply capacity charges to Area Boards rose 64 per cent in the first ten years of nationalisation , as the higher postwar investment costs were reflected in the Central Authority 's books ; and running charges were raised by 45 per cent , reflecting the rising cost of coal supplied by the National Coal Board . |
| 9 | Sales to these consumers ( which had been more effectively restrained in the difficult 1940s ) rose more rapidly than those to domestic consumers in the first ten years of nationalisation . |
| 10 | Despite these problems , the BEA were able , in the first ten years of nationalisation , to double the capacity of National Grid power stations . |
| 11 | He enjoyed considerable success ; in the first ten years of his rule Iran probably progressed more than in the entire Qajar period of the last hundred and twenty years . |
| 12 | The founder-members numbered eleven , and in the first ten years of its existence a further forty-three members were elected . |
| 13 | But by far the greater number of paintings to be seen at both these Salons in the first ten years of the century were still sub-Impressionist in character , and it was as part of the final and conclusive reaction against Impressionism that the Cubist and proto-Cubist works exhibited in 1910 were greeted . |
| 14 | I have n't looked at the details of those figures , but are there predominantly be provided in the first ten years of the structure plan . |