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

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1 You should make sure that you are adequately covered from the start , because the likelihood of a dog running away from home is probably greatest during the first few months of ownership .
2 Many course combinations are possible during the first three years , facilitating transfer between these three streams .
3 New residents are at their most receptive during the first six months .
4 That figure is remarkable when compared to just 87,000 during the first six months of last year .
5 Mortality was particularly high during the first six years .
6 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 .
7 Fees for the session 1992/93 will be approximately £98 — payable during the first few weeks of the course .
8 It was a fact that quite easily became disheartening during the first few months of captivity .
9 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 .
10 Company borrowing soared by an annualised £64 billion during the first three quarters of 1989 — the fastest rise ever .
11 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 ) .
12 This is especially important during the first few weeks of pregnancy when you might not even know you are pregnant .
13 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 .
14 The mean resting pressure in the lower oesophageal sphincter during the first 30 minutes of the recording was 17.6 ( 6.3 ) mm Hg .
15 Of every cwt. of copper she was to receive 2s. or one-twentieth during the first five years thereafter to have 2s. 6d. , or one-fifteenth .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 The Middle East Economic Digest of Sept. 7 reported that in its memorandum submitted to the UN Security Council , Jordan had claimed that the Iraqi embargo would cost Jordan some US$4,000 million during the first 12 months and that the country 's foreign debt would become virtually unmanageable .
19 This was intended to run for a term of 15 years , yielding a Royalty of one-twelfth during the first two years , and a tenth part thereafter , " … sufficiently washed cleansed and made merchanteable …
20 The mortgage is not portable during the first two years of the loan .
21 Because the accident went unmonitored during the first few vital hours and days , certain statistics will never be available .
22 In the early part of 1990 during the first great Ecstasy draught , Ketamine came to light in police analysis of seizures of tablets sold as Ecstasy in nightclubs in various parts of England and Scotland .
23 For some , homesickness is so bad during the first few months that they have no alternative but to go back home again .
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