Example sentences of "first [adj] months [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first few months they earned only a few pennies a week between them and Sal became convinced they would all end up in the workhouse if they kept failing to cough up the rent . |
| 2 | In the first few months we received a considerable amount of written advice from individuals and professional organisations , and so in making our decisions we could draw on a range of expertise . |
| 3 | In my first few months I made some real gaffes — sitting in the wrong part of the dining room , for instance , and using a commanding manner with staff who were n't used to it . |
| 4 | For the first few months I was just having it now and again and then I was having a bit more . |
| 5 | Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For the first few months she trembled at the thought of performing an official engagement on her own . |
| 8 | For the first six months they have to live in at a training centre . |
| 9 | In fact , Los Angeles scared him a little and for the first six months he barely ventured out of the house alone . |
| 10 | and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree |
| 11 | By stocking slowly in the first six months you could increase this slightly , to 25″ . |
| 12 | I mean , I can well recall in my own analysis with , of course , for the first six months she said nothing , and I used to get very frustrated , and say , look , what do you think of this ? |
| 13 | We got er we , well after the first three months , the first three months we , we were s what they call student nurses . |
| 14 | ‘ After the first 18 months you know anything can happen . |
| 15 | However , Microsoft says its projected sales of one million copies of NT the first twelve months it 's out are not highly dependent on Pentium . |
| 16 | During the first two months I was on a King 's Kids Outreach Tour . |
| 17 | For the first two months I lived with a French family in Fontainebleau and studied with a Commandant Lettaure , who was coaching fifteen other young Englishmen . |
| 18 | It 's still , it 's been , in the first two months it 's been going down on last year in volume terms . |
| 19 | For the first four months he also funded his salary out of personal savings . |