Example sentences of "the first week of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think everyone needs the director to be vitally interested in the work well beyond the first week of actual performance . |
| 2 | Even in the first week of June , when potatoes were a foot high and oilseed rape was in glower , snow fell on high ground , and this makes a difference to what you can grow successfully . |
| 3 | The festival organisers , the local CAMRA branch and Tynemouth Round Table , planned to open from 11am to 10.30pm on Friday and Saturday in the first week of September but were forced to close at 9pm instead . |
| 4 | And soon afterwards , in the first week of their marriage , Dostoevsky showed her the stone under which Raskolnikov hid the stuff he had taken from the old moneylender . |
| 5 | The former Conservative minister and company chairman was being cross-examined at the end of the first week of his libel action against historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy and property developer Nigel Watts , who circulated a pamphlet in 1987 saying the peer was responsible for repatriating 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs to be massacred by the communists in 1945 . |
| 6 | In the first week of the campaign over half our panel felt Labour was addressing the issue , but under one-third thought that about the Alliance and only one-fifth about the Conservative party . |
| 7 | In the first week of the campaign only 5 per cent of television 's election news focused on defence , only 3 per cent of the electorate thought the parties were stressing the issue , and only 3 per cent wished them to do so . |
| 8 | In the first week of the campaign only 44 per cent of the public felt Labour was a clear second in the opinion polls and as many as 19 per cent said the Alliance was running second . |
| 9 | The Bristol area had over two inches of rainfall in two days during the first week of January , and that was followed by one of the wettest and stormiest periods for some time . |
| 10 | The only other official site I used was in Isafjördur but in the first week of June , at minus five degrees , I had been alone . |
| 11 | In midwinter — it was the first week of February — there were few dogs in his compounds , although there was one large , affable-looking but wholly terrified cat . |
| 12 | Last year foxes were unusually abundant and 27 were shot during the first week of lambing . |
| 13 | The first week of February had barely passed when Doctor Staples fired a warning shot across his bows . |
| 14 | In the first week of October , Seth momentarily returned to the Spartan ritual that had produced Homeboy : rising at six am , working out at the Y for an hour , sitting down to write by seven . |
| 15 | He was less prominent in the action than William Craig and he felt sufficiently distanced from it to be able to absent himself for a few days in the first week of the strike when he went to Canada to attend a funeral . |
| 16 | BAD : The gloomy presence of Norman Lamont overshadowed the first week of the campaign . |
| 17 | World At One and PM increased their ratings in the first week of the campaign and Today maintained its 1.3 million audience . |
| 18 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 19 | THE first week of the general election campaign I spent carefully observing election coverage on television . |
| 20 | Sealink Stena intends to start a new service in the first week of May . |
| 21 | A construction strike called for the first week of April by Spain 's two largest unions originally dashed hopes of completing the project on time . |
| 22 | No one , of course , would want to compare the first week of school term with the outbreak of a world war , but we are at the beginning of a New Year and a gateway to the future . |
| 23 | We had hoped to be married in the middle of December , but in the first week of that month , Leslie wrote : ‘ Can you stand by to shift the date to , say , 22nd December ? |
| 24 | One senior official with a ringside seat at the traumas of winter 1973–4 contemplated resignation during the first week of March so that he could tell the country that Heath was a serious man and had been a worthy prime minister . |
| 25 | During the last week of July or the first week of August every year , the Provincial Exhibition was held in Regina — a gala display of all manner of farm products , poultry and livestock , coupled with an ‘ extravaganza ’ by way of a grandstand show and horse-racing . |
| 26 | You will be given the name of your studies adviser during the first week of term . |
| 27 | There is an introductory intensive skills course which begins on the Monday before the first week of term . |
| 28 | The swifts will depart in the first week of August . |
| 29 | The first week of his convalescence . |
| 30 | The Feast of St Nicholas was in the first week of December ; a month away . |