Example sentences of "the first few weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is especially important during the first few weeks of pregnancy when you might not even know you are pregnant . |
| 2 | In the first few weeks they treated his wife nicely . |
| 3 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 4 | For the first few weeks the cast used the bedrooms as dressing rooms . |
| 5 | An infection in a baby in the first few weeks of life can cause mental handicap , especially if the baby is premature . |
| 6 | Although the night-time itching has been put down to the nocturnal habits of the mite , it is interesting that for the first few weeks of infestation , when the mites are presumably just as active , there are often no symptoms at all . |
| 7 | There is no time limit on the patient 's capacity for physical recovery , although an experienced physiotherapist usually knows within the first few weeks of starting treatment how quick or slow a hemiplegic patient 's physical recovery is likely to be . |
| 8 | Although weak , the baby was basically healthy , but she had to be kept in intensive care for the first few weeks . |
| 9 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |
| 10 | The first few weeks after Michael came out of hospital were very difficult , for he was in much pain , could eat very little and could not sleep . |
| 11 | Some find their feet quickly ; but I find that some assistants need support for the first few weeks , and it 's up to me and Joan and Wendy to give it . ’ |
| 12 | The first few weeks |
| 13 | During the first few weeks in a Home everyone concerned with the resident , and of course the resident too , will be thinking about the best care for the person . |
| 14 | During the first few weeks , it 's important that you spend as much time as possible with a new resident , getting to know them and their family and working on their care plan . |
| 15 | At least , this is how Mary , Freda and I felt for the first few weeks . |
| 16 | A sympathetic doctor may help and so will friends and family ready to give support and put up with unreasonable behaviour for the first few weeks or more . |
| 17 | The following quotations illustrate the widely differing views of this common problem : ‘ During the first few weeks of life the average baby sleeps a great deal but , when awake , cries lustily and often … . |
| 18 | Children may be given tetanus vaccination in the first few weeks of life and its importance is underlined by its inclusion in the primary recommended vaccination schedules which begins at two months . |
| 19 | Two more , and it was plain that she was hungry , just as Patrick had been in the first few weeks of life . |
| 20 | Some in Europe who had maintained the Yellow Sword declared it was an extremely difficult fish , only giving birth to about 20 very week fry — which often died in the first few weeks . |
| 21 | Fees for the session 1992/93 will be approximately £195 for the day classes and £171 for evening classes payable during the first few weeks of the course . |
| 22 | Fees for the session 1992/93 will be approximately £98 — payable during the first few weeks of the course . |
| 23 | In the same year , Percy Shelley and Edward Williams drowned when the Don Juan sank in the Bay of Spezia , and Clairmont cared for the widows in the first few weeks . |
| 24 | My year between school and university was about as creative as the period Terry Waite spent in captivity staring at a concrete wall with only his postcard of John Bunyan for reading matter , but I did spend the first few weeks of it in the typing class of a comprehensive school in Hackney . |
| 25 | Courtney , in his own evidence , claimed to have heard that Miss C gained a reputation for being ‘ easy ’ during the first few weeks of her stay at University College . |
| 26 | There were insufficient vehicles in the first delivery to work the whole service between Sutton and Croydon and several of the earlier 1–60 batch ex-L.U.T. trolleybuses , known as ‘ Diddlers ’ because of the clicking noise their contactors made , had to be used during the first few weeks . |
| 27 | For the first few weeks their existence was bedraggled and formless . |
| 28 | ( One of the originators once told me that his memory of the first few weeks of the organization was of people literally waiting in turn to answer the phone every time it rang . ) |
| 29 | I would n't go shopping for the first few weeks . |
| 30 | Most Bangladeshi mothers breastfed their babies for the first few weeks , switching to either combination or bottle feeding after this period . |