Example sentences of "[prep] the first months " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first months of the war , therefore , Franco proceeded with caution as he sought ways of using the conflict to Spain 's and his own advantage . |
| 2 | Although progress in passing European single market laws was painfully slow during the first months of the French presidency , Paris hands over to Dublin this month amid a last-minute rush of important agreements . |
| 3 | Most Germans were in expectant but uneasy mood during the first months of 1940 . |
| 4 | All this occurred during the first months of the Awlad Amira administration , while Mannaia still smarted from electoral defeat ; and at that time some lineages did not exclude the possibility of further Tibbu reprisals after the earlier fighting and homicides . |
| 5 | It saw a slight recovery of demand for its products by the end of 1992 and during the first months of 1993 . |
| 6 | During the first months of war life in Fontanellato was uneventful and the fighting seemed far away . |
| 7 | According to Western reports , during the first months of 1990 the Khmers Rouges increased their infiltration of fighters and supplies from their border camps into Cambodia proper . |
| 8 | During the first months of his presidency , the pressure to adopt a more aggressive policy mounted . |
| 9 | As a new father I am only too aware of the importance of expert guidance through the first months of parenthood . |
| 10 | Of course , these reports were as biased towards optimism as the nervous hosts of September 1939 were biased towards pessimism ; and in the later waves great care was taken by teachers , medical officers and even parents not to repeat the mistakes of the first months of the war . |
| 11 | This new pregnancy is monitored throughout the nine months , and added support is given throughout the first months of the new baby 's life . |
| 12 | Throughout the first months a beginner learns that in executing the basic reverse punch and the lunge punch , his hands have to withdraw back to the body in order to repeat the procedure over and over again . |
| 13 | Throughout the first months of the war Board of Education officials were desperate to find convincing proof of this , so that it could be used as publicity to stop the drift-back to the danger areas . |
| 14 | For 133 days in 1988 Lyle had led the US Money List , he had won the Phoenix , Greensboro and Masters titles and in the first months of 1989 he twice came second . |
| 15 | Rather , it was his inability to end the war which , already in the first months of the Russian campaign and ever more strongly during 1942 , began inexorably to undermine the image of the far-sighted , infallible , and well-intentioned Führer . |
| 16 | In the first months of 1945 , the German people regarded itself as Hitler 's gain victim . |
| 17 | The only practical problem at the time was that I would have to take the orchestra on its American tour in the first months of 1955 at a time when I was contracted to conduct a new Ring cycle at La Scala , Milan . |
| 18 | It is true that certain measures of nationalisation had been undertaken in the first months of Soviet government — for example , the Merchant Marine had been taken over in January 1918 and the sugar industry nationalised in May of that year — but the main efforts had been directed towards a stabilisation and regularisation of the tottering economy on the existing basis of ownership . |
| 19 | The id is the centre of primitive desires and is at its most powerful , indeed it is extremely powerful , in the first months of life . |
| 20 | We suggest , however , that the tiredness experienced by young couples in the first months of a baby 's life is not just the result of broken nights , change of role , anxiety as to the well-being of so small and vulnerable a being , and doubts about being a good enough parent , but is also related to the strain of exercising a defence against envy of the baby to whom so much care and comfort is offered . |
| 21 | This left open the possibility of further Kindertransporte from countries threatened by Germany , but in the first months of the war no one was willing to engage in such defeatist speculation . |
| 22 | We have still , in the first months of a new church 's life , known some intractable difficulties where one member finds it impossible not to feel betrayed , usually by the leaders . |
| 23 | In the first months of Whitelaw rule , strong-arm cliques began to assert themselves in Belfast . |
| 24 | As for the Movement , or the Angry Young Men of the 1950s , the intellectual and popular press were not wrong to believe that a new race of novelists ( and others ) had appeared in the first months of the new reign , soon after the death of George VI ; but the name Movement coined by a Spectator journalist in 1954 never seemed likely to fit for long , or Angry Young Men either ; they never met as a group , though they were ( at least for the most part ) acquainted . |
| 25 | In the first months of 1993 the firm announced a string of other contracts in Siberia and the Urals . |
| 26 | In the first months of the war Herbert Morrison had requisitioned thousands of papier mache coffins for emergency use in bombing raids on London alone . |
| 27 | It had been swamped with work in the first months after the allowance 's introduction . |
| 28 | The omens for the new state were not encouraging in the first months of its existence . |
| 29 | In the first months he travelled up to London on Wednesday , sometimes by train but often one of his neighbours , Sir Philip Gibbs , would drive him . |
| 30 | In the first months , when hostilities were expected to last for only a few months , party activity was hardly affected at all . |