Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 2 | If it is to be a fish-only tank , then you can only stock 6″ of fish slowly during the first six months . |
| 3 | after the first er effectively after the first financial period |
| 4 | The charter provides evidence of a surprisingly well-worked-out system to ensure castle-guard of the town : in April , May , June , July and August , it was the count 's responsibility , though he paid only for the first two months directly out of his own treasury ; , the inhabitants of the town produced a tax for the following three . |
| 5 | Only for the first three batches . |
| 6 | Actually there are many stars with proper names , but in general these are used only for the first 30 or so , plus a few fainter stars of special interest — such as Polaris , Mizar in the Great Bear , and the variable star Mira , in Cetus , the Whale . |
| 7 | only for the first few days |
| 8 | Obviously for the first few days after I could n't sleep . |
| 9 | The darker your skin , the more protected it is , but most skins still need to use a sunfilter , especially during the first five days . |
| 10 | You will probably feel better if you eat little and often , so this helps to maintain your blood sugar level , and prevents you from getting " the munchies ' , especially during the first four weeks of the diet , when you are first restricting your diet . |
| 11 | Taking unprescribed pills or medicines , especially during the first three months of pregnancy , could harm your baby . |
| 12 | The current advice to pregnant women is , ‘ Cut out alcohol , especially during the first three months ’ . |
| 13 | Go easy on vigorous exercise , especially during the first three months when you need as much rest as possible or if you are suffering from high blood pressure . |
| 14 | Some of our final year students who were soon to be ordained , feeling the need for some kind of support system , especially during the first few years of ministry , decided to create their own cells . |
| 15 | It is most frequently found in sexually active women from their late teens to early thirties and is particularly common in pregnancy , especially during the first few months . |
| 16 | well I 'm a bit puzzled why , why you want to know all this and you think because I have n't given , given a good benefit that 's why a good temporary benefit , that 's why I 'm puzzled , say well let me just take you back to why I 'm h why I 'm here , let me get out of our meeting you 're gon na find this extremely valuable , perhaps for the first half we will spend time looking at your financial put you on the path to achieve financial . |
| 17 | For example , outbreeding is much more likely to occur than brother-sister incest because of the apparently innate rule that individuals raised closely together during the first six years of life are inhibited from full sexual intercourse at maturity . |
| 18 | So after the first two calls you are up to eighty . |
| 19 | ‘ Well ’ , she agrees reluctantly , ‘ I 've got my tennis together a lot more this year , especially after the first three months . |
| 20 | The boys and their uneasy pastor were moving tidily enough into the first green enclosure which must be the frigidarium of the baths , emerging in little , bulbous groups from between the broken walls of the entrance . |
| 21 | It should be stressed that all the 12 Steps were established and practised long before the first residential treatment centre came into being and that many people today get better without the help of treatment centres or professional counsellors but simply by depending upon the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 22 | He looked back to the road where yet more French cavalry had appeared , and he knew it could not be long before the first French eight-pounder cannon arrived . |
| 23 | From this false premiss , it is easy to see how the public might wrongly think that Moët & Chandon 's Premiere Cuvée Champagne is made entirely from the first thousand litres of the cuvée . |
| 24 | Divinity degrees require some study in each of the departments listed below in the first two years of the course . |
| 25 | His main findings were that 51 per cent had left employment in the destination area at some stage during the twelve-month period , most of these had returned to their area of origin and that 75 per cent of those who left the destination area had done so within the first ten weeks . |
| 26 | ‘ I often feel that forwards waste too much time in scrummaging especially in the first six scrums of a game ’ , says Derek Bevan . |
| 27 | The Treaty also permitted " declared site inspections " ( i.e. of sites where treaty-limited weapons were declared to be held ) , and some " challenge inspections " , especially in the first 120 days , although inspections would continue after that period . |
| 28 | The South Atlantic region ( Delaware , Maryland , Virginia , West Virginia , North and South Carolina , Georgia and Florida , plus the District of Columbia ) performed much better than the national average , especially in the first two decades when growth rates were half as large again as those for the United States as a whole . |
| 29 | I 've been staying at her place for some weeks now , in order to help her maintain the tight control on her blood sugar that 's so vital , especially in the first three months , but that 's becoming impractical . |
| 30 | As with any new aquarium or pond the water quality must be monitored especially in the first 6–8 weeks . |