Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the first week " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 12,000 sorties were flown in the first week — about half of them bombing raids , the rest involving air refuelling , reconnaissance , fighter cover and the like . |
| 2 | Last year foxes were unusually abundant and 27 were shot during the first week of lambing . |
| 3 | Over 300 people , mainly ANC members , were arrested within the first week of the emergency . |
| 4 | Appointments to the Cabinet to replace other departing ministers were announced in the first week of January . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The strength of local and international protest was shown in the first week on January this year , when 2,000 protestors from the US , the UK and test sites in Kazakhstan and the Pacific joined with Shoshone representatives in a mass trespass onto the Nevada Site . |
| 7 | A follow-up CSCE meeting was scheduled for the first week of September . |