Example sentences of "first few month " in BNC.
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| 1 | A report has been published which looks at the operation of the new Mental Illness Specific Grant in the first few months after its introduction in April this year . |
| 2 | He had quite enjoyed that kind of jealousy for the first few months of their marriage . |
| 3 | He half hoped she 'd bring back a burnt-offering , the way she had so often in their first few months of marriage , when she had deigned to cook for him . |
| 4 | the was posted to France and Belgium as part of the British Expedition Force , in the first few months of the outbreak of the war in 1939 , and he realised then that the British Army was not nearly professional enough , compared with the German Army , and he noticed that many of the British Commanding Officers continued to treat the waging of war as some kind of game . |
| 5 | Although Anker Simmons was one of the original quartet and chaired the first meeting , he does not figure greatly in the Club 's affairs after the first few months . |
| 6 | During the first few months of this year I made extensive fuel consumption checks and my overall mpg is 22.73 . |
| 7 | It remains unclear to what extent the government and its advisers in the Department of Energy were aware at this stage , as the Hinkley C Inquiry progressed through its first few months , of the true state of nuclear economics . |
| 8 | Beatrice had a wonderfully fluent French-flavoured pen and captured the frenetic quality of their life together in those first few months of the war . |
| 9 | Proteins from foods can also pass through the stomach during the first few months , and so lead to problems . |
| 10 | In December 1987 the cost-of-living index was 170 per cent above its level in December of the previous year , and even under the ‘ price freeze ’ of the first few months of 1988 , prices continued to rise at a rate equivalent to an annual rate of about 100 per cent . |
| 11 | It was a fact that quite easily became disheartening during the first few months of captivity . |
| 12 | Resistance to specific infectious diseases can be acquired in several ways ( p. 82 ) , and , of course , infants during the first few months of life are relatively unsusceptible to many infections because of transplacentally derived immunity . |
| 13 | For the first few months of the campaign they had very few weapons and virtually no ammunition . |
| 14 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 15 | The first few months of 1978 saw two major events concerning the future of Hall Automation . |
| 16 | The result of social and cognitive tests administered to the children between the ages of one and three obliged the authors to conclude that their data provided ‘ little or no support for the notion that how a mother interacts with her baby during the baby 's first few months of life has any particular consequences for later social or cognitive development ’ . |
| 17 | So , although the Bolsheviks did not start the inflationary process , they were unable to stop it either , despite their wish to do so in the first few months of Soviet rule . |
| 18 | In the first few months of independence the Poles came to realise that the lower reaches of the Vistula waterway — their economic lifeline to the coast — had in fact been badly neglected by the Germans . |
| 19 | Medication is not always the right resource in times of distress , but there are certain situations that are so terrible that you will need something to help you through the first few months . |
| 20 | For some , homesickness is so bad during the first few months that they have no alternative but to go back home again . |
| 21 | The argument is that school-leavers are mainly only temporarily unemployed and in the first few months of work are likely to switch jobs as they search for the ones that suit them best . |
| 22 | During the first few months he worked with a gang of local road-menders , filling pot-holes on the highway , smoothing cambers , paving the dirt tracks that led to ranches . |
| 23 | The carrycots can double as a bed un the first few months , which is ideal if you 're staying away overnight , but make sure that the cot does n't get damp from rain during the day . |
| 24 | Baby carriers/slings leave your hands and arms free , and are a good way of transporting your baby in the first few months . |
| 25 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
| 26 | Although he may receive more help in the first few months than the widow usually does , he may find that his sudden change in life-style is a considerable shock . |
| 27 | You must not worry too much if she seems a bit depressed during the first few months , instead of being a ‘ sweet and grateful granny ’ . |
| 28 | After the first few months , George was insistent that she give up the market stall . |
| 29 | But it is feared mementoes from his first few months in Italy , together with treasured personal belongings may have been snatched . |
| 30 | In fact , during my first few months , I have not been able to identify any major differences between the procedures that the Institute has set up in response to the Companies Act and those that I would expect from an ‘ external ’ regulator . |