Example sentences of "first few months [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had quite enjoyed that kind of jealousy for the first few months of their marriage . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | During the first few months of this year I made extensive fuel consumption checks and my overall mpg is 22.73 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was a fact that quite easily became disheartening during the first few months of captivity . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For the first few months of the campaign they had very few weapons and virtually no ammunition . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The first few months of 1978 saw two major events concerning the future of Hall Automation . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The bank held an internal inquiry during the first few months of 1988 , for which Mr Reed was questioned , but he was not shown the report , which detailed the late take-up of shares . |
| 18 | We came together as a group almost by accident , but there was a convergence of our experiences and a symmetry to our ideas which made the first few months of our existence one of the most stimulating and electrifying of my life . |
| 19 | For the first few months of 1952 flying concentrated on standardising the instructors and from February , with the arrival of the first B.2s , type conversion for the staff . |
| 20 | You should make sure that you are adequately covered from the start , because the likelihood of a dog running away from home is probably greatest during the first few months of ownership . |
| 21 | There seems to be a readiness in the baby to react keenly to visual stimuli during the first few months of life . |
| 22 | In the first few months of this year , they accounted for 20% of those applying for asylum in the main European countries . |
| 23 | The first few months of life in the community were dominated by support workers ' sense of heavy responsibility about the twin tasks of meeting the women 's physical and medical needs and , at the same time , enabling them to be as independent as possible . |
| 24 | According to s.6 , as amended by the FSA 1986 , the practice of price stabilisation ( ie. trading activities geared towards stabilising share prices , especially in the first few months of an issue ) , if done in conformity with the rules made under s.48 of the FSA 1986 , can take place despite the fact that such activities would ordinarily be in breach of the insider dealing prohibitions . |
| 25 | The independence of the people 's committees was not ultimately compatible with communist rule in north Korea and problems occurred in the first few months of communist dominance . |
| 26 | For the young male mink , the first few months of life are his hardest test . |
| 27 | In their first few months of training , they can give consideration to making their own arrangements if they so choose . |
| 28 | From time to time , during the first few months of our separation , Otto used to ring me . |
| 29 | After the first few months of feeling sick , many pregnant women find they have a raging appetite . |
| 30 | However , this pain commonly resolves spontaneously within the first few months of recovery . |