Example sentences of "[art] first [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Group profits before tax for the first six months of the year soared by 46 per cent but the final result to 30 June , announced last week , showed a less than sparkling advance of 26 per cent to £1.28m compared to earlier City predictions of £1.4m-plus . |
| 2 | Some 169 Washington babies died before their first birthday in the first six months of this year , bringing the capital 's infant mortality rate to 32.3 deaths for every 1,000 live births , a 50 per cent increase on 1988 . |
| 3 | The company said that the first six months of the year ‘ have seen more new business than during any previous period ’ . |
| 4 | Worldwide , Lowe International won over £100m of new business in the first six months , more than double the total 1988 increase . |
| 5 | The Supreme Court 's July ruling admitted for the first time in 16 years the right of individual states to restrict abortions during the first six months of pregnancy . |
| 6 | At present , patients are prevented from receiving the benefit for the first six months of a terminal illness . |
| 7 | Figures from the Public Health Laboratory Service ( PHLS ) revealed 7,848 confirmed cases of salmonella during the first six months of this year , a 17% decrease over the same period last year . |
| 8 | But the PHLS warned that the first six months of the year were always lower risk times because of the colder weather , and said figures for the third-quarter could be higher . |
| 9 | The number of listeria cases rose by a quarter in the first six months of this year , Dr Diane Roberts , of the Central Public Health Laboratory , told a London conference yesterday . |
| 10 | IF YOUR New Year resolution is to become a home owner , the Yorkshire Building Society is offering first-time buyers mortgages at two per cent below its standard interest rate of 14.75 per cent for the first six months of the loan . |
| 11 | Société Générale , one of the country 's biggest banks , had to raise provisions against dud loans by more than half in the first six months of 1990 . |
| 12 | The 0.1% productivity rise in the first six months of this recession compares with an average fall of 1.2% ( at an annual rate ) in the same period of the past four recessions . |
| 13 | They tracked all the involuntary departures reported in the press of chief executives and chairmen of British firms in the first six months of 1988 . |
| 14 | For the first six months they have to live in at a training centre . |
| 15 | A cow , reared for the first six months of its life in an environment of people and horses , may refuse to have anything to do with cows in its own paddock for all the years that follow . |
| 16 | The Treasury 's forecast , indicates gross domestic product in Britain this year will increase by 1 p.c. , rising to 3 p.c. in the first six months of 1993 , compared with the same period the previous year . |
| 17 | It is probable , then , that she returned to Brackley during the first six months of 1745 . |
| 18 | In fact , Los Angeles scared him a little and for the first six months he barely ventured out of the house alone . |
| 19 | The first six months are the most dangerous and can be very expensive . |
| 20 | The country was spared the follies that all too often accompany the first six months of a new government while tyro-ministers clamber up what the Civil Service likes to call their learning-curve . |
| 21 | The introduction of a new series of medicines , together with the strong and continuing growth of established products , were significant factors in Glaxo 's favourable results during the first six months of 1991 . |
| 22 | Table 4.2 shows the total amount of time spent by the clients in institutional care ( whether short- or long-term ) in the first six months , and in the first 12 months , after referral to the psychogeriatric service . |
| 23 | For the first six months of my mother 's pregnancy , I was assumed to be indigestion . |
| 24 | In the first six months of 1848 , some 120 local cases were sent to the Middlesex Hospital . |
| 25 | Do not give the child eggs , fish , chocolate , wheat , oranges , peanuts or other nuts for at least the first six months , and preferably for the first year of life . |
| 26 | The groups believe that the demand from consumers is increasing : in the first six months of 1989 , sales of organic meat trebled , fruit and vegetable sales doubled and demand for organic cereals by millers quadrupled . |
| 27 | As it happened , of the 5381 children who arrived in the first six months of 1939 , only 113 re-emigrated , and most of those went to join their parents who had escaped Germany by other routes . |
| 28 | In the first six months of 1939 , the staff of the RCM at Bloomsbury House , mostly volunteers , fluctuated between sixty and seventy . |
| 29 | This number is seen to be much higher in the later 1970s and in the 1980s , supporting the view that more and more school-leavers were then finding it increasingly difficult to obtain jobs in the first six months after leaving school . |
| 30 | IN the first six months of 1992 , 35,750 households lost their homes ( which could mean nearly as many repossessions as last year ) ; and , even worse , at the end of June 1992 , 305,140 households were in arrears of six months or more , compared to 275,350 at the end of 1991 , suggesting a rising trend . |