Example sentences of "[prep] the first weeks " in BNC.
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1 | Probably the people whose advice had put him behind in the polls during the first weeks of the campaign . |
2 | During the first weeks of the new year ruthless reprisals helped restore order to urban Russia . |
3 | Anna Freud ( 1943 , 1960 ) , who had been one of the first to call attention to the emotional difficulties of small children separated from their mothers , attacked from yet another angle , affirming the emotional need , not only in the baby but in his mother , to be together during the first weeks of the child 's life , and criticizing maternity hospital practice that separated the two . |
4 | There was no hint of the troubling flirtatiousness which had confused her on earlier occasions , yet neither was his manner that of the ‘ matey , all good pals together ’ variety which he had adopted during the first weeks of their friendship . |
5 | With the new classes starting now , it is a very good idea to take along some Medau Rhythmic Movement books to display at your class , particularly during the first weeks — new class members are often keen to know more about Medau and at £1.50 these books are very good value . |
6 | Her back knitted , but doubled over , for after the first weeks when she was laid on the ground from fear of hurting her raw flesh , she had preferred to lie in a hammock , where she had lain curved for weeks on end . |
7 | With the first weeks of College my illusions were shattered . |
8 | this polarisation of the country and its potential political consequences was recognised by the Conservative Government almost certainly well before the results of the 1987 general election were known … the development of policies to tackle the economic run-down and social deprivation of inner city areas was identified as a major thrust for the new government and many new initiatives were conceived in the first weeks of the new Parliament . |
9 | This was just five days after his seventeenth birthday , and in the first weeks of his first term in Cape Town , so there was cause for excitement . |
10 | In the first weeks of the year he had probably begun ‘ Christabel ’ , an ambitious medieval romance founded once more on supernatural events . |
11 | She remembered Elizabeth saying in the first weeks of her engagement to Alex , ‘ Do you know , you 're a rather intimidating couple ? ’ and she had been tempted to reply , ‘ Oh , we are , we are . ’ |
12 | In the first weeks of a diet ( up to four ) , half the weight loss is fat , and half is water , as a result of changes in sugar and protein metabolism . |
13 | He had thrown his clothes on the floor , spilled his food , deliberately kicked over the stinking pail in the first weeks and suffered terribly for his defiance . |
14 | The group B streptococcus is the commonest cause of non-iatrogenic bacterial sepsis in the first weeks of life in many centres in Britain , continental Europe , Australia , and northern America . |
15 | Will my outswinger even pitch , let alone swing ? ’ but the fundamental doubt it common to all cricketers in the first weeks of a new season . |
16 | In a government document on maternity care , the Maternity Services Advisory Committee rounded up advice on good practice in postnatal care : ‘ The care a mother and baby receive in the first weeks after the birth is as important as the care given antenatally and during childbirth , ’ it says . |
17 | In the first weeks , sometimes months , of language study , you will need to use a large part of your time to practise pronunciation . |
18 | Obviously , even in a statistically developed country it is an almost insurmountable task to achieve completeness in reporting spontaneous abortions , since an early miscarriage , particularly in the first weeks of pregnancy , can be easily mistaken as a late menses and some spontaneous abortions may not seem sufficient cause to some women for them to seek medical attention . |
19 | It was also generally agreed that the restrictions obscured the extent of the bombing campaign and the destruction in Iraq in the first weeks of the war . |
20 | All the energy and drive which gave to that campaign so electric a character in the first weeks of this year must find outlets for the same fundamental objectives in new , and yet familiar channels . |
21 | A second major source of infection for the very young animal is the reservoir of larvae in the tissues of their dams and this may lead to clinical strongyloidiasis in foals and piglets in the first weeks of life . |
22 | They say nine out of ten women have problems in learning to feed , and many give up in the first weeks . |
23 | PROPHECIES of an extreme shortage of finished animals in the first weeks of the Beef Special Premium Scheme ( BSPS ) may have been self-defeating . |
24 | Increasingly , she wondered if in some unconscious way she had not simulated naivety since the first weeks of her marriage , if she had not — through her uncontrollable selflessness — permitted a skin to grow instead of probing beneath it . |
25 | The garden 's main crops of apples and pears are gathered in late September and through to the first weeks of October . |