Example sentences of "in [art] first few months of " in BNC.

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1 the was posted to France and Belgium as part of the British Expedition Force , in the first few months of the outbreak of the war in 1939 , and he realised then that the British Army was not nearly professional enough , compared with the German Army , and he noticed that many of the British Commanding Officers continued to treat the waging of war as some kind of game .
2 So , although the Bolsheviks did not start the inflationary process , they were unable to stop it either , despite their wish to do so in the first few months of Soviet rule .
3 In the first few months of independence the Poles came to realise that the lower reaches of the Vistula waterway — their economic lifeline to the coast — had in fact been badly neglected by the Germans .
4 The argument is that school-leavers are mainly only temporarily unemployed and in the first few months of work are likely to switch jobs as they search for the ones that suit them best .
5 In the first few months of this year , they accounted for 20% of those applying for asylum in the main European countries .
6 According to s.6 , as amended by the FSA 1986 , the practice of price stabilisation ( ie. trading activities geared towards stabilising share prices , especially in the first few months of an issue ) , if done in conformity with the rules made under s.48 of the FSA 1986 , can take place despite the fact that such activities would ordinarily be in breach of the insider dealing prohibitions .
7 The independence of the people 's committees was not ultimately compatible with communist rule in north Korea and problems occurred in the first few months of communist dominance .
8 The efficiency gains that RBS wrought in the first few months of Project Columbus reflect how much fat it was carrying .
9 It 's also packed with the mother 's antibodies against common things like flu , which help protect the baby from infections in the first few months of his life .
10 A key development in the first few months of life is ‘ joint reference ’ : the ability of a young baby to follow mother 's eye-gaze in order that they can jointly experience the same event .
11 Bombings in the first few months of last year — among them attacks at Lurgan and Fivemiletown — accounted for part of the £100m bill .
12 A state of relative peace prevailed in West Beirut in the first few months of 1990 , partly owing to a Jan. 25 decision by the Lebanese Cabinet to endorse the West Beirut security plan agreed between Hrawi and the Syrian government during the former 's visit to Damascus earlier in the month .
13 Our losses in the first few months of 1943 were rather harmful , and would have been very damaging to morale ; something happened about that time which affected me very deeply .
14 Traffic through the Mersey tunnels was down 4.9pc in the year ending in April but a spokesman said indications were that it had regained 3pc of that business in the first few months of this year .
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