Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] first [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sleep spindles develop during the first two months of life , varying in frequency between 10 and 4Hz although showing no systematic tendency to increase in frequency with age ( as is the case with the waking alpha rhythm , which progressively becomes faster with age , to reach a maximum of 10–11Hz ) . |
| 2 | Erm so I all we 're trying to do now at the moment though is , is to , to operate from the point of view of saying look , if you actually take all these things into account , we should n't be worse than we were ultimately , once these systems have bedded in , we 're doing more checking on letters for example th than , than we w we wo n't have to once we 've checked through the first two months of auto-offs , and we 're getting used to the new reports and so on and that sort of stuff , so we expect there to be a blip , but you would expect a learning curve in anyway . |
| 3 | A cow , reared for the first six months of its life in an environment of people and horses , may refuse to have anything to do with cows in its own paddock for all the years that follow . |
| 4 | Active or REM sleep onset will persist for the first twelve months of life in normal infants . |
| 5 | Episodes of intestinal obstruction usually occurred in the first year of operation but in seven patients admission to hospital with obstruction occurred after the first 12 months . |
| 6 | Between April 1988 and March 1989 average rents in housing association properties rose by 24 per cent with most of the increases occurring in the first four months of 1989 . |
| 7 | Only two cases of gonorrhea were reported in the first 19 months , compared with four a week previously . |
| 8 | And the overall toll , which includes sectarian murders , shows a similar trend with 46 people dying in the first five months of last year compared to 29 this year . |
| 9 | Debt-laden disco operator European Leisure is suspending dividend payments as it struggles to service bank loans in the face of heavy debts and the recession.The group is still in the black but trading in the first two months of the year has been ‘ difficult and stable ’ . |
| 10 | The independence of the people 's committees was not ultimately compatible with communist rule in north Korea and problems occurred in the first few months of communist dominance . |
| 11 | Clinical deterioration occurred in the first three months of treatment in seven cases . |
| 12 | ( The data given in this chapter was collected during the first six months of 1985 and employers should , therefore , bear this in mind when determining their relocation policies . ) |
| 13 | Ninety per cent of stents remain patent at three years and when abnormal hyperplasia occurs , resulting in stent occlusion , it occurs during the first six months . |
| 14 | On Nov. 13 Clinton unveiled a new ethics code for those in his transition team which prohibited members from lobbying for the first six months of the new administration . |
| 15 | Yeah , I did n't smoke for the first six months and then I finished work and I was at home |
| 16 | Over 16,000 people applied in the first two months alone . |
| 17 | The main damage was done in the first twelve months , when GDP fell by 3 per cent , industrial production by 9 per cent , and unemployment doubled to 2.5 million . |
| 18 | Using a rate of discount of 10% per annum ( 0.027% per day ) implies that the expected duration of a job is about 1.3 years if accepted in the first three months of the unemployment spell and three years if accepted later ( see footnote 3 ) . |
| 19 | The efficiency gains that RBS wrought in the first few months of Project Columbus reflect how much fat it was carrying . |
| 20 | Profits were better too in Australia , but 's in the USA failed to live up to the promise seen in the first six months . |
| 21 | On Jan. 26 Saudi Arabia announced that it would commit $13,500 million to US costs for the first three months of the war . |
| 22 | The following section deals with the basic exercises you will use during the first 6 months . |
| 23 | Stretford Bridge could have been little used after the first few months of the BCR 's life , when passengers presumably had to walk between there and Craven Arms — unless horse-drawn transport was provided along the road . |
| 24 | Most abuses had occurred within the first three months of the occupation , in response to protests against forced " Iraqization " . |
| 25 | The government claimed on June 21 that nearly 41,000 people , including 14,000 children , had died in the first four months of 1992 as a result of shortages of food and medicines caused by UN sanctions [ see pp. 38696 ; 38742 ; 38789 ; 38838 ] . |
| 26 | As it happened , of the 5381 children who arrived in the first six months of 1939 , only 113 re-emigrated , and most of those went to join their parents who had escaped Germany by other routes . |
| 27 | Just over two hundred thousand vehicles were sold in the first six months of this year , a rise of thirteen per cent on the year before . |
| 28 | Not surprisingly , despite poor resistance to water penetration and poor durability , 30,000 pairs of the new boots were sold in the first 12 months . |
| 29 | Hit by relentless price competition and slumping business conditions , Fujitsu Ltd on Friday forecast that for fiscal 1993 to March 31 , it would report its first loss since it was first listed in Tokyo in 1949 : it sees a group net loss of $322m and a current loss of $169m for the year , against net profit of $103m and current profit of $437m last fiscal — current profit includes gains and losses made on investments in stocks and bonds and sundry profits and losses from other non-operating activities ; ‘ Customers expect lower prices , ’ said Mike Beirne , a Fujitsu spokesman — ‘ the price competition goes from the price war in personal computers right up to mainframes ; ’ the company acknowledges that losses are likely to continue into the first six months of its new year . |
| 30 | After 12 months , the recurrence rate was significantly ( p<0.001 ) lower than that observed during the first six months . |