Example sentences of "occur [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 ‘ This genuine shortage is occurring for the first time ever .
2 All this occurred during the first months of the Awlad Amira administration , while Mannaia still smarted from electoral defeat ; and at that time some lineages did not exclude the possibility of further Tibbu reprisals after the earlier fighting and homicides .
3 Also shown are photographs of some of the more notable news happenings that occurred during the first half of the present century .
4 Unfortunately heavy losses occurred during the First World War with all four being sunk .
5 The change in gastric acid secretion , between basal acid secretion and stimulated acid secretion , that occurred during the first 30 minutes after sham feeding was compared with the change in urine acid output ( DUAO ) over the same period .
6 The statutory recognition of auditors ' resignation occurred for the first time in the Companies Act 1976 , prior to which resignation would have constituted a de facto breach of contract .
7 In every case a noticeable increase in measurement occurred between the first and second measurement of each pot .
8 The real evidence of successful integration occurred after the first two weeks .
9 Episodes of intestinal obstruction usually occurred in the first year of operation but in seven patients admission to hospital with obstruction occurred after the first 12 months .
10 And , his answer to that , is that psychoanalysis can give us a very interesting and unique insight into , into religion , and this was an insight which had emerged in the course of , the nineteen twenties , following the developments of psychoanalysis that occurred after the First World War , which we 've already looked at and is essentially the concept of transference .
11 Most complications occurred with the first few procedures when the technique was being developed .
12 To prevent the reactions from occurring in the first place , filtered blood has to be used from the very first transfusion and 99% of white cells have to be removed .
13 Between April 1988 and March 1989 average rents in housing association properties rose by 24 per cent with most of the increases occurring in the first four months of 1989 .
14 Of course , public recognition of the need to introduce a smog alert system may increase awareness that air pollution problems are very serious and that stricter long-term pollution control policies are needed to prevent smogs occurring in the first instance .
15 Make his life as easy as possible when he first starts school to avoid the problem occurring in the first place .
16 The deception , trick or ruse that forms the one essential element in the interaction of the fabliau characters is most frequently an impromptu action , very commonly occurring in the first instance as an example of a native cunning attributed to women , an ingenuity in lying and deceit that women have .
17 The trick is to prevent violence occurring in the first place .
18 For example , in 1979 nearly half of all divorces occurred within the first 10 years .
19 Most of the deaths ( 29/42 ) occurred within the first six weeks of the index bleed .
20 Clinical deterioration occurred in the first three months of treatment in seven cases .
21 As he had argued in Totem and Taboo , murder occurred in the first human groups , and the prohibition on killing came from the father .
22 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 .
23 When this occurred in the first organisms on earth , evolution began , for such mistakes in copying are the source of variations from which natural selection can produce evolutionary change .
24 Our four hypertension related male deaths all occurred in the first 12 years of the 21 years of follow up , suggesting their treatment was probably begun too late .
25 Although a fall in numbers occurred in the first year after charges were introduced , that was largely due to the building works , but the figures have increased and Welsh men are looking forward enormously to the addition to their national museum .
26 Most cases occurred in the first 48 hours of detention ( until July 1988 Austrian law allowed detainees to be held incommunicado for 48 hours ) .
27 This cash outflow occurred in the first half of the year .
28 Figure 5 shows their distribution with time ; 49% occurred in the first four seconds after the onset of the common cavity episode and 34% were scattered over the 5th to the 27th second after the onset of the common cavity .
29 Episodes of intestinal obstruction usually occurred in the first year of operation but in seven patients admission to hospital with obstruction occurred after the first 12 months .
30 Most cases ( 63% ) of chronic diarrhoea occurred in the first two years of life .
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