Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the first few weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Relieving Officer for East Greenwich , however , favoured giving relief to widows for the first few weeks after their husband 's death , but after that he believed some of the children should be taken into the workhouse , because he considered that an able-bodied widow should work . |
| 2 | Some find their feet quickly ; but I find that some assistants need support for the first few weeks , and it 's up to me and Joan and Wendy to give it . ’ |
| 3 | This makes it easier to lose weight in the first few weeks , at a rate which can be up to 4lb per week . |
| 4 | I intend to keep the fry in a number of these nets for the first few weeks of their lives and feed them on newly hatched brine shrimp . |
| 5 | They put me in an isolated pit for the first few weeks . |
| 6 | She 'd lived without carpets for the first few weeks and it had been nearly a year before she 'd been able to ditch her old and undersized curtains . |
| 7 | A sympathetic doctor may help and so will friends and family ready to give support and put up with unreasonable behaviour for the first few weeks or more . |
| 8 | In the same year , Percy Shelley and Edward Williams drowned when the Don Juan sank in the Bay of Spezia , and Clairmont cared for the widows in the first few weeks . |
| 9 | A minor difficulty in the first few weeks was the shortage of outer red nylon bags for infected or fouled linen caused by greater use of the appropriate inner bags and the reminder about colour codes . |
| 10 | 1 Pain and discomfort in the first few weeks after surgery . |
| 11 | 1 Pain and discomfort in the first few weeks after surgery . |
| 12 | What happens in is you do have the people in that area in the first few weeks . |
| 13 | Many children develop allergies in the first few weeks or months of life , and often these improve as the years go by . |
| 14 | An infection in a baby in the first few weeks of life can cause mental handicap , especially if the baby is premature . |
| 15 | Children may be given tetanus vaccination in the first few weeks of life and its importance is underlined by its inclusion in the primary recommended vaccination schedules which begins at two months . |
| 16 | Most Bangladeshi mothers breastfed their babies for the first few weeks , switching to either combination or bottle feeding after this period . |
| 17 | Although weak , the baby was basically healthy , but she had to be kept in intensive care for the first few weeks . |
| 18 | ( One of the originators once told me that his memory of the first few weeks of the organization was of people literally waiting in turn to answer the phone every time it rang . ) |
| 19 | He and Helen were blissfully happy , alone now in the house where they had lived with Helen 's mother for the first few weeks of their marriage . |
| 20 | Colourful pictures give your baby something to focus on — tape a smiling fact inside the cot in the first few weeks . |