Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] first [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's fight for better budgeting terms dominated much of the debate within the EEC for the first ten years of British membership , masking the more important questions of sovereignty and Federalism . |
| 2 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will give the total estimated annual operating costs of Trident for the first five years of operation . |
| 3 | Lawrence , Cumella and Robertson analysed admissions to Kidderminster DGH during the first six years without the ‘ back-up ’ facility of admission to Powick . |
| 4 | Lynch , who fell on Barney Maclyvie at the first 11 years ago , said : ‘ I have been told that a lot of good jockeys have fallen at the first fence in their first ride in the National and then gone on to win the race next time . |
| 5 | What was the upshot for resource allocation of the wrangles between the Electricity Boards and Whitehall in the first ten years of nationalisation ? |
| 6 | The chair was occupied by the Geikies for the first 43 years of its existence . |
| 7 | The available armed forces were expected to be fully committed to the defence of Italy in the first two years of a war . |