Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the first [det] week " in BNC.
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| 1 | Avoid rigorous vacuuming and shampooing during the first few weeks after your new carpet has been fitted . |
| 2 | People who give up cigarettes very commonly report explicit ( and guilty ) dreams about smoking in the first few weeks , even though there is every reason to believe that sleep actually becomes less disturbed on withdrawal from nicotine . |
| 3 | He was also ready for office , and was delighted when an offer came in the first few weeks of the new Government . |
| 4 | There were insufficient vehicles in the first delivery to work the whole service between Sutton and Croydon and several of the earlier 1–60 batch ex-L.U.T. trolleybuses , known as ‘ Diddlers ’ because of the clicking noise their contactors made , had to be used during the first few weeks . |
| 5 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |
| 6 | The women I met in the refuge , and others I met in the first few weeks of my journey , stated their own investment in this book : they did n't want to be objects observed , they wanted to be its subjects . |
| 7 | The only significant leisure effect comes from the effect having receiving benefits disallowed in the first few weeks of the unemployment spell . |
| 8 | Here is a sample from conversation with two psychologists , the topic of conversation being the linguistic difficulties — particularly , the intrusions of completely unwanted and irrelevant words — KC experienced in the first few weeks after his stroke . |
| 9 | At least , this is how Mary , Freda and I felt for the first few weeks . |
| 10 | Some in Europe who had maintained the Yellow Sword declared it was an extremely difficult fish , only giving birth to about 20 very week fry — which often died in the first few weeks . |
| 11 | ( If they sound a little harassed , please bear in mind that they are new to the system and so may take a little longer to respond in the first few weeks of live running . ) |
| 12 | The hand positions and stances are learned within the first few weeks . |
| 13 | I would n't go shopping for the first few weeks . |
| 14 | There is no time limit on the patient 's capacity for physical recovery , although an experienced physiotherapist usually knows within the first few weeks of starting treatment how quick or slow a hemiplegic patient 's physical recovery is likely to be . |