Example sentences of "time [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waiting time for first outpatient appointment |
| 2 | Obviously , the length of time between first use and second use and , subsequently , between first use and daily use , is intimately related to a number of personal and social factors . |
| 3 | Demand for the services offered by these units has varied considerably with a consequence that the length of time between first contact with the GP and first appointment has fluctuated between two weeks and three months . |
| 4 | During the first excitation interval ( i.e. the time between first and second step commands ) the motor must move far enough and attain sufficient velocity to ensure that synchronism with the step commands is maintained when the excitation changes from BC to CD . |
| 5 | The first is the average length of time between first receipt of an application and a visit . |
| 6 | The factors selected were mean OBS score at time of first assessment , whether the sufferer was singly or doubly incontinent at least once daily , whether he or she engaged in persistent wandering away from home , whether he or she lived alone , and whether he or she had no closely involved informal carer . |
| 7 | Most of this care was provided by relatives , but one-fifth of all the samples was — at the time of first data collection — receiving some informal care from friends or neighbours . |
| 8 | For mortality , the intensity of selection in a stable population ( r=0 ) remains constant during the pre-reproductive period because the consequences of death for reproductive success remain constant ; selection intensity starts to decline only at the time of first breeding . |
| 9 | Sexual maturity is reached in the female at the time of first menstruation — the discharge via the vagina of the unfertilised egg and of a lining which has grown in the uterus during the egg 's development . |
| 10 | The process of intervention will be studied over a four month period from the time of first referral . |
| 11 | They did not , for instance , examine how a head looks at the development of fellow-staff after the time of first appointment . |
| 12 | The mean duration of the disease from first diagnosis to the time of first biliary stent placement was 65 months ( range 5–180 ) . |
| 13 | At the time of first detection , they were usually located in the transitional zone between the corpus and antrum . |
| 14 | Patient M17 was the only individual who was colonised by the epidemic strain at the time of first referral to the unit . |
| 15 | Time to first print is roughly 45 seconds and multi-copy printing pulls that up to the rated 6 pages per minute claimed for the unit . |
| 16 | That 's not at all bad , but expect time to first print to be longer for highly graphical subjects . |
| 17 | Beecham said that any fool can conduct three concerts with an orchestra , but to go on improving is like going on a race track where it is possible to improve your time at first , but each new improvement involves great effort and often some danger . |
| 18 | If the patient has changed a lot in his attitudes , you should bide your time at first , if you can , in case he does recover to become as before . |
| 19 | A classmate said : ‘ We used to talk about the affair all the time at first . |