Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] first few months " in BNC.

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1 This was in excess of 10% for the first few months and was over 20% in some parts of Wales .
2 Our losses in the first few months of 1943 were rather harmful , and would have been very damaging to morale ; something happened about that time which affected me very deeply .
3 Although he may receive more help in the first few months than the widow usually does , he may find that his sudden change in life-style is a considerable shock .
4 It 's also packed with the mother 's antibodies against common things like flu , which help protect the baby from infections in the first few months of his life .
5 The bank held an internal inquiry during the first few months of 1988 , for which Mr Reed was questioned , but he was not shown the report , which detailed the late take-up of shares .
6 He had quite enjoyed that kind of jealousy for the first few months of their marriage .
7 Traffic through the Mersey tunnels was down 4.9pc in the year ending in April but a spokesman said indications were that it had regained 3pc of that business in the first few months of this year .
8 Resistance to specific infectious diseases can be acquired in several ways ( p. 82 ) , and , of course , infants during the first few months of life are relatively unsusceptible to many infections because of transplacentally derived immunity .
9 Although Anker Simmons was one of the original quartet and chaired the first meeting , he does not figure greatly in the Club 's affairs after the first few months .
10 Bombings in the first few months of last year — among them attacks at Lurgan and Fivemiletown — accounted for part of the £100m bill .
11 A key development in the first few months of life is ‘ joint reference ’ : the ability of a young baby to follow mother 's eye-gaze in order that they can jointly experience the same event .
12 A report has been published which looks at the operation of the new Mental Illness Specific Grant in the first few months after its introduction in April this year .
13 There seems to be a readiness in the baby to react keenly to visual stimuli during the first few months of life .
14 In evidence presented to the commission in the first few months , details were given of irregularities in the handling and documentation in Antigua of the shipment of arms from Israel and their discovery in Colombia .
15 Baby carriers/slings leave your hands and arms free , and are a good way of transporting your baby in the first few months .
16 Proteins from foods can also pass through the stomach during the first few months , and so lead to problems .
17 A state of relative peace prevailed in West Beirut in the first few months of 1990 , partly owing to a Jan. 25 decision by the Lebanese Cabinet to endorse the West Beirut security plan agreed between Hrawi and the Syrian government during the former 's visit to Damascus earlier in the month .
18 Careful study of the bird trade press during the first few months of 1989 led to the identification of a large number of advertisements offering species , such as the Scarlet Macaw , which may only be put on sale after permission has been obtained from the Department of the Environment .
19 ’ Here this approach will be explored by investigating one particularly appropriate episode in the social history of the Second World War — the evacuation of schoolchildren in the first few months after September 1939 .
20 Observation in the first few months showed that , almost regardless of what changes were made , output went up , even when conditions were apparently worsened .
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