Example sentences of "first few weeks [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Howard laughs more in his first few weeks on Harry 's group than he has ever laughed in his life before . |
| 2 | This is especially important during the first few weeks of pregnancy when you might not even know you are pregnant . |
| 3 | An infection in a baby in the first few weeks of life can cause mental handicap , especially if the baby is premature . |
| 4 | When we signed the Report , on 29 January 1970 , I was in my first few weeks of a sabbatical term at Merton College , Oxford , and in need of a short rest from the work and vocabulary of education . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 … . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Two more , and it was plain that she was hungry , just as Patrick had been in the first few weeks of life . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Fees for the session 1992/93 will be approximately £98 — payable during the first few weeks of the course . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ( 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 . ) |
| 15 | For the first few weeks of term this was a problem . |
| 16 | ( If they sound a little harassed , please bear in mind that they are new to the system and so may take a little longer to respond in the first few weeks of live running . ) |
| 17 | He was also ready for office , and was delighted when an offer came in the first few weeks of the new Government . |
| 18 | The women I met in the refuge , and others I met in the first few weeks of my journey , stated their own investment in this book : they did n't want to be objects observed , they wanted to be its subjects . |
| 19 | For example Marie , a student at B who , in the first few weeks of term , felt herself to be getting behind with work , was concerned about the lack of help provided by the department : |
| 20 | I intend to keep the fry in a number of these nets for the first few weeks of their lives and feed them on newly hatched brine shrimp . |
| 21 | The bombing was concentrated both in terms of space and time ; a small number of East End London boroughs bore the brunt of the damage , typically Stepney and Bermondsey , during the first few weeks of the Blitz in late 1940 . |
| 22 | He and Helen were blissfully happy , alone now in the house where they had lived with Helen 's mother for the first few weeks of their marriage . |
| 23 | The only significant leisure effect comes from the effect having receiving benefits disallowed in the first few weeks of the unemployment spell . |
| 24 | ‘ We could n't have hoped for a better first few weeks of the tour . |
| 25 | Despite such " official " backing and aspirations , the DTB 's Bund contract only averaged 2,500 contracts per day , about one-tenth of LIFFE 's turnover , in its first few weeks of trading . |
| 26 | I do n't think even in our wildest dreams we managed to spend an extra five million in the first few weeks of this council , I remember a couple of million going into schools and few hundred thousand for voluntary organizations , and er , and old people 's homes . |
| 27 | The clinical signs in very young animals , usually within the first few weeks of life , together with the finding of large numbers of the characteristic eggs or larvae in the faeces are suggestive of strongyloidiasis . |
| 28 | Oh absolutely , yes I 'm not arguing about that , and as I said , heaven forbid that should happen , erm another point I did pick up from one report was that in the eight years war , and you 're quite right , the Iraqis are battle hardened , but the Iranian air force apparently could n't bomb Iraq to any great consequence except for the first few weeks of the conflict . |
| 29 | The media are by nature deferential to Prime Ministers , as the reception granted to John Major in his first few weeks in power showed . |
| 30 | 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 . |