Example sentences of "[prep] [art] first [adj] months of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first five months of his life , Christopher was happy , well-adjusted and a trifle fat . |
| 2 | It should be noted that for the purposes of our valuation we have used a conservative forecast of £ [ B ] million , reflecting a below target performance for the first five months of the financial year . |
| 3 | By the end of 1990 it stood at 121 per cent , and the aim of reducing this to less than 70 per cent in 1991 appeared to be succeeding as the inflation rate for the first five months of the year was 38.9 per cent , compared with 84.5 per cent in the corresponding period in 1990 . |
| 4 | Active or REM sleep onset will persist for the first twelve months of life in normal infants . |
| 5 | For the first 10 months of this year , it totalled £362 million , although this is expected to be wiped out by outflows this month and last month . |
| 6 | The country 's current-account deficit for the first 10 months of the fiscal year also showed a fall of 27 per cent compared with the same period in 1989/90 . |
| 7 | Davies points out that Gorbachev took a conservative attitude to Soviet history for the first 18 months of his time in power . |
| 8 | Group profits before tax for the first six months of the year soared by 46 per cent but the final result to 30 June , announced last week , showed a less than sparkling advance of 26 per cent to £1.28m compared to earlier City predictions of £1.4m-plus . |
| 9 | At present , patients are prevented from receiving the benefit for the first six months of a terminal illness . |
| 10 | IF YOUR New Year resolution is to become a home owner , the Yorkshire Building Society is offering first-time buyers mortgages at two per cent below its standard interest rate of 14.75 per cent for the first six months of the loan . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For the first six months of my mother 's pregnancy , I was assumed to be indigestion . |
| 13 | The society 's bad debt charge for the first six months of this year was £29.7 million compared with £7.2 million for the same period in 1991 . |
| 14 | The AirBreak group , which also includes Next Holidays , Peter Pan Ltd and Suntan Tours , revealed a £2.9 million loss for the first six months of this year . |
| 15 | TENNIS WORLD 'S ABC figures for the first six months of the year will show an increase in sales of almost 30% in spite of the deep UK recession . |
| 16 | Many puppies are infected at birth with the roundworm Toxocara canis and so must be wormed frequently on a vet s advice for the first six months of life , and regularly thereafter . |
| 17 | For the first six months of its financial year , Tadpole turned round from losses of £1.4m last time to pre-tax profits of £26,800 this . |
| 18 | Although the period from Christmas to the end of February — MMT 's accounting period for the first six months of its fiscal year ends then — was very quiet because a lot of orders were completed around that time , Haines says trading has now picked up again . |
| 19 | For the first six months of its financial year , Tadpole turned round from losses of £1.4m last time to pre-tax profits of £26,800 this . |
| 20 | The results for Drouot salerooms for the first six months of 1992 proved to be almost ten per cent down on those of 1991 , a clear case of bad to worse which the Paris auctioneers said showed the art market had ‘ stabilised ’ . |
| 21 | The Cuban Communists , who for the first six months of 1959 had made policy proclamations which were cautiously but unequivocally more radical than Castro 's , subsequently found that they were fast being outstripped by him in the proposal of anti-capitalist measures . |
| 22 | The summit was originally called by Charles Haughey , the Irish Prime Minister and President of the Council for the first six months of 1990 , to discuss the Communities ' response to the prospect of German unification and to the rapid changes in the rest of Eastern Europe . |
| 23 | At the 40th session of the UNHCR Executive Committee in October 1989 the 43 member states adopted a general programme budget of $190,000,000 for the first six months of 1990 only ; after extensive debate at an extraordinary session in May 1990 and at the regular session in October , the Executive Committee finally adopted a general programme budget for 1990 amounting to $378,885,900 , including the $38,000,000 deficit carried over from the previous year . |
| 24 | The decline in pre-tax profits for the first six months of 1990 ranged from 55.1 per cent for Nomura Securities , the largest trader , to 74.2 per cent for Nikko and Yamaichi Securities . |
| 25 | According to a report in the Financial Times of Jan. 16 the decline in the manufacturing sector for the first six months of the financial year was 1.9 per cent , while production in mining and quarrying fell 2.6 per cent . |
| 26 | Izvestiya reported on July 20 the conclusions of the State Statistics Committee for the first six months of 1992 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It was solved by moving the DO section leader , complete with drawing board , next to the project leader in the new lab for the first six months of the project . |
| 29 | For the first six months of the crisis , prices were volatile , fluctuating between $20 and $40 per bbl . |
| 30 | It was solved by moving the DO section leader , complete with drawing board , next to the project leader in the new lab for the first six months of the project . |