Example sentences of "the first months " in BNC.

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1 Although progress in passing European single market laws was painfully slow during the first months of the French presidency , Paris hands over to Dublin this month amid a last-minute rush of important agreements .
2 For 133 days in 1988 Lyle had led the US Money List , he had won the Phoenix , Greensboro and Masters titles and in the first months of 1989 he twice came second .
3 The first months of the health dispute of 1982 coincided with the Falklands War , but when the war ended public attention returned to it .
4 Most Germans were in expectant but uneasy mood during the first months of 1940 .
5 Rather , it was his inability to end the war which , already in the first months of the Russian campaign and ever more strongly during 1942 , began inexorably to undermine the image of the far-sighted , infallible , and well-intentioned Führer .
6 In the first months of 1945 , the German people regarded itself as Hitler 's gain victim .
7 The only practical problem at the time was that I would have to take the orchestra on its American tour in the first months of 1955 at a time when I was contracted to conduct a new Ring cycle at La Scala , Milan .
8 All this occurred during the first months of the Awlad Amira administration , while Mannaia still smarted from electoral defeat ; and at that time some lineages did not exclude the possibility of further Tibbu reprisals after the earlier fighting and homicides .
9 BOUTS of nausea and vomiting that accompany the first months of pregnancy may be good news for the mother , according to two new theories on the cause of morning sickness .
10 For Papert , the first months of the centre gave the idea of what would be feasible if genuine international cooperation between scientists were encouraged .
11 It is true that certain measures of nationalisation had been undertaken in the first months of Soviet government — for example , the Merchant Marine had been taken over in January 1918 and the sugar industry nationalised in May of that year — but the main efforts had been directed towards a stabilisation and regularisation of the tottering economy on the existing basis of ownership .
12 The id is the centre of primitive desires and is at its most powerful , indeed it is extremely powerful , in the first months of life .
13 We suggest , however , that the tiredness experienced by young couples in the first months of a baby 's life is not just the result of broken nights , change of role , anxiety as to the well-being of so small and vulnerable a being , and doubts about being a good enough parent , but is also related to the strain of exercising a defence against envy of the baby to whom so much care and comfort is offered .
14 This new pregnancy is monitored throughout the nine months , and added support is given throughout the first months of the new baby 's life .
15 This left open the possibility of further Kindertransporte from countries threatened by Germany , but in the first months of the war no one was willing to engage in such defeatist speculation .
16 We have still , in the first months of a new church 's life , known some intractable difficulties where one member finds it impossible not to feel betrayed , usually by the leaders .
17 In the first months of Whitelaw rule , strong-arm cliques began to assert themselves in Belfast .
18 The old zeks , the long-term men , they say that the first months in the camps are the hardest .
19 And harder than the first months are the first weeks .
20 As for the Movement , or the Angry Young Men of the 1950s , the intellectual and popular press were not wrong to believe that a new race of novelists ( and others ) had appeared in the first months of the new reign , soon after the death of George VI ; but the name Movement coined by a Spectator journalist in 1954 never seemed likely to fit for long , or Angry Young Men either ; they never met as a group , though they were ( at least for the most part ) acquainted .
21 It saw a slight recovery of demand for its products by the end of 1992 and during the first months of 1993 .
22 In the first months of 1993 the firm announced a string of other contracts in Siberia and the Urals .
23 By the first months of nineteen forty one , there were ten thousand women in the armed services .
24 In the first months of the war Herbert Morrison had requisitioned thousands of papier mache coffins for emergency use in bombing raids on London alone .
25 It had been swamped with work in the first months after the allowance 's introduction .
26 The omens for the new state were not encouraging in the first months of its existence .
27 In the first months he travelled up to London on Wednesday , sometimes by train but often one of his neighbours , Sir Philip Gibbs , would drive him .
28 In the first months , when hostilities were expected to last for only a few months , party activity was hardly affected at all .
29 In the first months the Provincial Juntas acted as independent sovereign states .
30 In the first months of Kennedy 's presidency the United States not only undertook a substantial arms build up , but also began to float new ideas in strategic doctrine , most notably Maxwell Taylor 's theory of flexible response .
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