first years
Examples
The first years of man make provision for the last.
Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.
In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.
I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface.
I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.
DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.