Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] during the first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This would include test and examination results during the first year , continuous assessment marks and evaluations , form tutors ' reports , results of any standardised tests such as those provided by National Foundation for Education Research ( NFER ) and , in appreciating the continuity of education , indicators and assessments from the primary school reports .
2 PERINATAL MORTALITY RATION — The annual number of late fetal deaths plus infant deaths during the early neonatal period ( sometimes infant deaths during the first month of life ) per 1,000 live births that occurred in the same year .
3 Downland Housing Association will be making their selection interviews during the first week in May .
4 They have had to develop more detailed service costings than required by their main customers , the district health authorities , who were limited to the less information costly block contracts during the first year of the internal market .
5 It is a formidable feat of timing , comparable to a clever trick that was used in some fighter planes during the First World War .
6 When Eliot heard that Wyndham Lewis had been travelling around North Africa in a thick English suit , he remarked , " Lewis was always a heavily dressed man " ; and of a lady who had acquired too many petrol coupons during the first year of the war , he said , " There is always bound to be a certain element of iniquity in these matters " .
7 Commenting on its much improved figures ( see page seven ) , Cray Research Inc said order backlogs during the first quarter of rose to $381m from $354m in the same period a year ago , adding to positive overall quarterly earnings : John Carlson , the new chairman and chief executive , said that the contract value of orders signed was some $124m compared with just $86m in the first quarter of last year .
8 In the early testings with the Yamaha boys last weekend McWilliams was unflappable even though he had gearbox problems during the first session .
9 Increased demand for its road , rail and sea container fleets during the first half helped boost the latest figures .
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