Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the first week " in BNC.
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| 1 | An initiation for prisoners had been established where for the first week officers were encouraged to violently beat and humiliate the new prisoner in nauseous ways . |
| 2 | His return journey had been even more dramatic , on a fishing boat , and for the first week he charged the families nothing at all . |
| 3 | The weather was fine , and for the first week of his stay Giles went with Beverley on several short geological expeditions . |
| 4 | The only other official site I used was in Isafjördur but in the first week of June , at minus five degrees , I had been alone . |
| 5 | We had hoped to be married in the middle of December , but in the first week of that month , Leslie wrote : ‘ Can you stand by to shift the date to , say , 22nd December ? |
| 6 | Grandfather used to say ‘ the day is a cock 's stride longer at Old Newerday ’ ( 12th January ) , but in the first week of the new year there is little to show that the sun is creeping marginally higher each day . |
| 7 | Violence continued to be reported mainly from communities outside Tskhinvali , the capital of South Ossetia , while in the first week of February Soviet television showed footage of the principal buildings in Tskhinvali ransacked apparently by Georgian militants during January 's violence . |