Example sentences of "during [art] first [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucien had had little experience of female-kind in his life , and it was the women of Mandru 's household who were the most kind to him during the first traumatic days of his life there . |
| 2 | Bayer fared slightly better than its rivals , turning in a 4 per cent drop in pre-tax profits during the first nine months of the year — from DM 2750m to DM 2640m . |
| 3 | Rhône-Poulenc announced a rise in operating profits of 8.1 per cent during the first nine months of 1991 to FFr 4887m ( £1 = FFr9.68 ) , despite a persistently poor economic climate . |
| 4 | During the first nine months of 1992 , 47 companies obtained a full listing and only five a USM quotation . |
| 5 | The London exchange , reporting the figures in its latest quarterly publication , said that 900 people left the industry during the first nine months of the year , cutting total staff numbers to 22,100 . |
| 6 | It was during the first four decades of the twentieth century that the major contours of psychoanalytic theory were first developed by Freud . |
| 7 | During the first four days of interferon therapy indomethacin or paracetamol was given to suppress early side effects . |
| 8 | Lambs : Marketings of new season lambs fell by nine per cent in Great Britain during the first four days of the week commencing May 31 . |
| 9 | Finished Cattle : Throughputs of finished cattle increased in England and Wales while marketings fell slightly in Scotland during the first four days of the week commencing 26 October . |
| 10 | Lambs : Auction market throughputs of lambs were 10 per cent lower in Great Britain during the first four days of the week commencing 26 October . |
| 11 | You will probably feel better if you eat little and often , so this helps to maintain your blood sugar level , and prevents you from getting " the munchies ' , especially during the first four weeks of the diet , when you are first restricting your diet . |
| 12 | A developmental progression of toilet training emerges during the first four years of life . |
| 13 | During the first four years of PNP , the Authority appears to have mounted no fewer than 376 primary in-service courses at the Primary Centre . |
| 14 | Gow was for many years a close associate of Margaret Thatcher , the Prime Minister , having been her parliamentary private secretary during the first four years of her premiership in 1979-83 , and a member of her government as Minister of Housing in 1983-85 and a Minister of State at the Treasury from September to November 1985 . |
| 15 | After shrinking slightly over the past few years , the gap grew to nearly $10 billion during the first four months of this year , up from a little over $6 billion for the same period in 1990 . |
| 16 | The period of greatest rent increases , during the first four months of this year , corresponds with the scrapping , on 15 January , of fair rents and the introduction of assured tenancies for all new lettings . |
| 17 | On May 25 the Taiwanese Board of Foreign Trade released figures which showed that trade between Taiwan and eastern Europe had amounted to US$194,100,000 during the first four months of 1991 an 82.4 per cent increase over the same period in 1990 . |
| 18 | The tittering started during the first five minutes of the piece , and grew . |
| 19 | During the first five months of 1992 , Olszewski had held unsuccessful negotiations with various parliamentary parties to broaden his support base [ see p. 38881 ] , the latest of which — discussions with the Confederation for an Independent Poland ( KPN ) — broke down on June 2 . |
| 20 | Seebohm Rowntree , in his second study of poverty in York in 1936 , found that half the children in working-class families were born into poverty-stricken homes and lived below the level of ‘ dietetic and health efficiency ’ during the first five years of their lives . |
| 21 | This will be done with the full cooperation of C3 Division of the Home Office , the Lord Chancellor 's Department and the Crown Prosecution Service all of whom have agreed to grant access to the relevant documentation in relation to cases during the first five years of the Act 's operation . |
| 22 | Nobel made a loss of SKr 1500m during the first 8 months of 1991 , as a result of the troubles . |
| 23 | For example , outbreeding is much more likely to occur than brother-sister incest because of the apparently innate rule that individuals raised closely together during the first six years of life are inhibited from full sexual intercourse at maturity . |
| 24 | In demonstration of the enduring religious tradition , during the first six weeks of the show monks from the Dalai Lama 's Namgyal Monastic University in Northern India will create a mandala , which represents the buddhist cosmos , in coloured sand . |
| 25 | The Supreme Court 's July ruling admitted for the first time in 16 years the right of individual states to restrict abortions during the first six months of pregnancy . |
| 26 | Figures from the Public Health Laboratory Service ( PHLS ) revealed 7,848 confirmed cases of salmonella during the first six months of this year , a 17% decrease over the same period last year . |
| 27 | It is probable , then , that she returned to Brackley during the first six months of 1745 . |
| 28 | The introduction of a new series of medicines , together with the strong and continuing growth of established products , were significant factors in Glaxo 's favourable results during the first six months of 1991 . |
| 29 | FRANKMOBILE : A certain tour van that gave us so much pleasure and pain during the first six months of this year . |
| 30 | The effect of contested takeover bids on a company 's share price may be seen from the 139 per cent increase in the price of Rowntree 's shares during the first six months of 1988 — the best performance of any share in the FT-SE 100 index . |