Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the first week [coord] " in BNC.

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1 WHY IS IT EASIER TO LOSE WEIGHT IN THE FIRST WEEK OR TWO ?
2 Also in 1990 , 15pc of mothers gave up in the first week , and 38pc by the sixth , compared with 14pc in the first week and 39pc by week six in 1985 .
3 In Judaism the bereaved person must be surrounded with friends and relatives for the first week and cared for .
4 Those who have become used to low-fibre food may suffer from a little flatulence for the first week or two .
5 This helps to protect them from starvation during the first week or two , when conditions may still be hard .
6 An art shop in the city of London sold four cotton based portfolios in the first week and doubled this in the second .
7 In the perinatal mortality ( mortality in the first week and the late fetal period ) , and particularly in late fetal mortality , effects of the endogenous factors and , along with them , the relevant reproductive patterns predominate .
8 Some sufferers , notably juveniles addicted to many drugs , commonly take six to eight weeks because their minds are still fogged from the drugs during the first week or two and because they have not been accustomed in their earlier lives to dealing with emotional pain except by recourse to mood-altering chemicals .
9 This blanket term covers the ‘ blues ’ at one end of the spectrum ( affecting between 70 and 80 per cent of all women in the first week or so after birth ) to the post-puerperal psychosis which temporarily hospitalizes three in every thousand mothers .
10 and they fall flat on their face in the first week or so .
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