Example sentences of "[prep] [art] first six [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Trees grown on MM111 rootstock will reach a robust 18–20ft in height , but wo n't crop for the first six years .
2 Her mother had both children late in life , and was wonderful for the first six years of Jay 's life .
3 For the first six years , it will give an additional 2 per cent if you were not contracted out of SERPS already .
4 There are now 34 owner-members each with one share and one vote , paying a membership fee for the first six years .
5 The programmes will be subject to review with the passage of time but no substantial additions to them will be made for the first six years ( except for changes required because of matters outside of governing body control and except for minor alterations to equipment ) .
6 If your employee qualifies for the higher rate , it should be paid for the first six weeks that higher rate SMP is due .
7 Higher rate of SMP is payable for the first six weeks of her absence .
8 In the UK , statutory maternity pay is 90 per cent of earnings for the first six weeks of maternity leave and then a lower rate of £39.25 for a further 12 weeks .
9 It 's erm I 've got I mean I 've got a job for the first six weeks already set up with
10 Patients who start out using high levels of gum — about one piece every waking hour for the first six weeks of quitting — do better than half-hearted chewers .
11 For the first six weeks of your maternity leave you will receive of your normal pay , the next twelve weeks will be at normal pay plus SMP , any further period of absence will be unpaid .
12 The 2nd cellos here play in unison with the double basses for the first six bars , and after that in the octave above , the double basses being more effective if kept in the lower octave .
13 Group profits before tax for the first six months of the year soared by 46 per cent but the final result to 30 June , announced last week , showed a less than sparkling advance of 26 per cent to £1.28m compared to earlier City predictions of £1.4m-plus .
14 At present , patients are prevented from receiving the benefit for the first six months of a terminal illness .
15 IF YOUR New Year resolution is to become a home owner , the Yorkshire Building Society is offering first-time buyers mortgages at two per cent below its standard interest rate of 14.75 per cent for the first six months of the loan .
16 For the first six months they have to live in at a training centre .
17 A cow , reared for the first six months of its life in an environment of people and horses , may refuse to have anything to do with cows in its own paddock for all the years that follow .
18 In fact , Los Angeles scared him a little and for the first six months he barely ventured out of the house alone .
19 For the first six months of my mother 's pregnancy , I was assumed to be indigestion .
20 The society 's bad debt charge for the first six months of this year was £29.7 million compared with £7.2 million for the same period in 1991 .
21 As part of a five-year probation , Griffin must not leave the jail-like clinic for the first six months .
22 The AirBreak group , which also includes Next Holidays , Peter Pan Ltd and Suntan Tours , revealed a £2.9 million loss for the first six months of this year .
23 TENNIS WORLD 'S ABC figures for the first six months of the year will show an increase in sales of almost 30% in spite of the deep UK recession .
24 Many puppies are infected at birth with the roundworm Toxocara canis and so must be wormed frequently on a vet s advice for the first six months of life , and regularly thereafter .
25 For the first six months , those who were further advanced towards full Marinehood had simply treated the latest Necromundan intake as juveniles , as sprats who might or might not grow into sharks .
26 The tigress suckles them for the first six months , by which time they will weigh 100 lb ( 45 kg ) .
27 For the first six months of its financial year , Tadpole turned round from losses of £1.4m last time to pre-tax profits of £26,800 this .
28 Although the period from Christmas to the end of February — MMT 's accounting period for the first six months of its fiscal year ends then — was very quiet because a lot of orders were completed around that time , Haines says trading has now picked up again .
29 It 's aiming for deliveries of 1000 copies of V4.2 a month for the first six months from October .
30 For the first six months of its financial year , Tadpole turned round from losses of £1.4m last time to pre-tax profits of £26,800 this .
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