Example sentences of "[prep] the first [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bridget looked after her son for the first eighteen months before getting a job so he recognises her as his mother , whereas it could be quite easy for a baby to start calling its grandmother " Mum " . |
| 2 | For the first five months of his life , Christopher was happy , well-adjusted and a trifle fat . |
| 3 | ‘ With Amber I felt sick for the first five months , ’ she says . |
| 4 | It should be noted that for the purposes of our valuation we have used a conservative forecast of £ [ B ] million , reflecting a below target performance for the first five months of the financial year . |
| 5 | By the end of 1990 it stood at 121 per cent , and the aim of reducing this to less than 70 per cent in 1991 appeared to be succeeding as the inflation rate for the first five months of the year was 38.9 per cent , compared with 84.5 per cent in the corresponding period in 1990 . |
| 6 | Patients were interviewed monthly for the first five months and every three months thereafter . |
| 7 | Temperature records for the first five months matched those of last year ( 1990 ) , the hottest year on record , despite unpleasant weather . |
| 8 | Below are our sales estimates for the Activity Book ( classroom version ) for the first twelve months : |
| 9 | Active or REM sleep onset will persist for the first twelve months of life in normal infants . |
| 10 | The creation of a new party was also a more exciting enterprise which was expected to have a greater effect on public opinion : for the first twelve months — until the Falklands crisis arrived — the SDP gained much favourable publicity and appeared to be potentially successful . |
| 11 | The country recorded a current-account deficit of US$2,430 million for the first 11 months , a 63 per cent increase over the equivalent period for 1989 . |
| 12 | For the first 10 months of this year , it totalled £362 million , although this is expected to be wiped out by outflows this month and last month . |
| 13 | The country 's current-account deficit for the first 10 months of the fiscal year also showed a fall of 27 per cent compared with the same period in 1989/90 . |
| 14 | Davies points out that Gorbachev took a conservative attitude to Soviet history for the first 18 months of his time in power . |
| 15 | A woman has the right to stop work until her child is three and gets a third of her salary for the first 18 months . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | At present , patients are prevented from receiving the benefit for the first six months of a terminal illness . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For the first six months they have to live in at a training centre . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In fact , Los Angeles scared him a little and for the first six months he barely ventured out of the house alone . |
| 22 | For the first six months of my mother 's pregnancy , I was assumed to be indigestion . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As part of a five-year probation , Griffin must not leave the jail-like clinic for the first six months . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The tigress suckles them for the first six months , by which time they will weigh 100 lb ( 45 kg ) . |
| 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 . |