Example sentences of "[adj] during the first " in BNC.

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1 Referring to Western society Gerth and Mills state that life chances include ‘ Everything from the chance to stay alive during the first year after birth to the chance to view fine arts , the chance to remain healthy and grow tall , and if sick to get well again quickly , the chance to avoid becoming a juvenile delinquent and very crucially , the chance to complete an intermediary or higher educational grade ’ .
2 Many course combinations are possible during the first three years , facilitating transfer between these three streams .
3 Although amendments to the published general SVQ specifications will not be possible during the first year , we will be consulting on whether the specifications should be added to for the second year .
4 New residents are at their most receptive during the first six months .
5 Not that all boards are n't fun — the funboard describes a group of boards which may be a little unstable during the first steps afloat , but can be used in higher winds allowing the sailor to develop techniques such as the use of footstraps to cope with the speed of sailing in strong winds .
6 Mortality was particularly high during the first six years .
7 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 .
8 Fees for the session 1992/93 will be approximately £98 — payable during the first few weeks of the course .
9 The drummer turned up but was sick on-stage during the first number .
10 Many of the people who were made redundant during the first wave of financial job losses in 1990 have found work in other fields .
11 This account , written by a foreigner in London during his travels through England , is a description of ‘ corpse dressing ’ current during the first quarter of the eighteenth century .
12 The ultimate clinical course of the colitis became evident during the first year of the study and there was no difference between the one year analysis and the final analysis ( Table II ) performed after a mean follow up of 2.8 years in the placebo group and 3.0 years in the cyclosporin group .
13 It was a fact that quite easily became disheartening during the first few months of captivity .
14 BURTON MERE : Will be busy during the first week .
15 Although it appears that sentencing became more severe during the first three years the guide-lines were in use , Minnesota remains one of the very few states that has avoided huge increases in prison population size ( Parent 1988 ) .
16 This is especially important during the first few weeks of pregnancy when you might not even know you are pregnant .
17 The latter course kept the family together , a consideration which became increasingly important during the first half of the twentieth century , but which was believed to be open to abuse unless the state assumed the role of the male breadwinner and insisted on good household management and sexual fidelity .
18 A similar infrared FEL facility ( Felix ) is under construction at Rijnhuizen ( Utrecht ) in The Netherlands , ultimately spanning the range 3–300 with 8–80 available during the first stage .
19 Unify president and founder Nicolas Nierenberg says Accell/TP is now being demonstrated to customers , will go into beta-testing within the next few months , and will be generally available during the first quarter of next year .
20 Pieper also promised delegates at Open Forum that the first wave of systems management tools and utilities for Unix System V.4 would be available during the first quarter of next year .
21 Michael Codron remained optimistic during the first rewrites .
22 Although progress in passing European single market laws was painfully slow during the first months of the French presidency , Paris hands over to Dublin this month amid a last-minute rush of important agreements .
23 Cambridge ink-jet printer maker Domino Printing Sciences Plc told the annual meeting yesterday that despite the strong finish to 1992 , first quarter trading has been below expectations and this was bound to affect interim results : in particular , sales in the US were unexpectedly slow during the first three months coinciding with the change of administration , it said .
24 For measuring perinatal mortality , the mortality of the new-born during the first week of life is sometimes distinguished as early neonatal mortality .
25 As a result , I drank more than was sensible in my condition : like a lot of women , I always felt more unwell during the first three months of pregnancy than afterwards , and alcohol went to my head very quickly .
26 The Fabians were particularly influential during the first forty or so years of their history , a period in which the leading lights were the Webbs , G. B. Shaw , Graham Wallas , and H. G. Wells and , less consistently , Bertrand Russell , G. D. H. Cole , Harold Laski , and R. H. Tawney .
27 The mortgage is not portable during the first two years of the loan .
28 When he split the data into two sub periods , he found that β 1 was only significantly positive during the first subperiod , that is , that the maturity effect is not stable over time .
29 In the north of the country guerrillas were particularly active during the first half of the year .
30 Because the accident went unmonitored during the first few vital hours and days , certain statistics will never be available .
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