Example sentences of "[art] first [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bad news is revealed partly by the results for the first half year and partly by the company 's prediction that its borrowings will only be down to half shareholders ' funds even at the end-of-year low point after the Christmas rush . |
| 2 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 3 | Trading profits in the communications division were more than double the figure for the first half year thanks to the cost control programme . |
| 4 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 5 | Continuing buoyant fish feed demand should result in being ahead of budget in the first half year . |
| 6 | Sturge chairman David Coleridge said : ‘ Wise Speke 's performance in the first half year suffered from the depressed level of activity in the Stock Market as a result of political and economic uncertainty prior to the General Election . |
| 7 | However , in the first few years groups did not appear to consider fundraising a priority . |
| 8 | For the first few years I rested my chin on the concrete wall separating the spectators from the players and saw many wondrous things . |
| 9 | The organisation expects that , in the first few years , half the visitors will come from France . |
| 10 | In the first few years of the informal concordat under the RAC , there appears to have been a tacit agreement that in Cambridgeshire the WEA attempted to provide few courses , largely it is thought because of its financial problems . |
| 11 | This uneasy compromise was not a major difficulty during the first few years as the national economic problems of the early thirties , reductions in public expenditure and depressed employment conditions all led to severe restrictions on the development of adult education . |
| 12 | State socialism has not been very successful in transferring technology between countries , and has brought its own kind of exploitation ( as the Yugoslavs discovered in the first few years after the war ) . |
| 13 | Some of our final year students who were soon to be ordained , feeling the need for some kind of support system , especially during the first few years of ministry , decided to create their own cells . |
| 14 | For the first few years Blackpool 's trams represented the only practical example in the World , of electric tramcars running in crowded thoroughfares . |
| 15 | For the first few years the Sunday School met in a private house , possibly that of a Mr Thomas Leathem . |
| 16 | In many cases the annual crops planted in the first few years are rapidly being replaced by pasture which itself is frequently proving to be uneconomic and environmentally detrimental . |
| 17 | In the first few years at Rangers , he was sent off for striking five different opponents . |
| 18 | Sometimes grace periods are granted which means that no repayment of the loan 's principal is required for the first few years . |
| 19 | For the first few years the maximum carriage length remained at 42ft . |
| 20 | It is not known whether or not he ever returned to visit his mother during the first few years but it is certainly true that , latterly , he was not back in the county for many years . |
| 21 | The scholar , Hector Boece , first Principal of Aberdeen University , writing about Ayrshire in the first few years of the 16th century , observed that , , another indication of the age of the legend . |
| 22 | In the first few years of the 19th century , the manufacture of wooden snuff boxes — sneeshin' mulls , as they were known — began in Ayrshire in Auchinleck , Ochiltree and Cumnock . |
| 23 | Malcolm Cole 's programme notes do n't specify the circumstances of the ‘ grim struggle for survival which left serious composition out of the question ’ for the first few years after he had settled in the United States in 1939 , but , whatever they were , they informed his music with an intensity that the exuberance of his early style did n't find much room for . |
| 24 | In the first few years of marriage , before the decision to have a baby is made , reparative work is about intimate pairing and what was felt to have been betrayed in the first partnership of life with the main attachment figure . |
| 25 | For the first few years the work was concerned with the Old Red Sandstone along the southern margin of the Highlands but soon men were stationed at various points around the Grampians , including the Moray Firth area , and were advancing towards the higher ground . |
| 26 | Walnut was used for the bodies and necks during the first few years of production but later Gibson switched to mahogany as this proved to be a more stable material , with less material wastage during the timber selection procedure . |
| 27 | During the first few years after the British first gained control over the Low Country there was much administrative confusion . |
| 28 | It intends to use its contacts with architects , builders , joiners , electricians etc to provide a building and hopefully also assist in raising income for the first few years ' running costs . |
| 29 | The autumn , for the first few years , brought our greatest problem . |
| 30 | With Lindsey 's Corsair being the only one of its type in Europe , airshow organisers had to approach him if they wanted a Corsair in their flying display , and for the first few years John Allison and Lindsey flew all over Europe with the aircraft . |