Example sentences of "[prep] [art] first few months of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had quite enjoyed that kind of jealousy for the first few months of their marriage . |
| 2 | For the first few months of the campaign they had very few weapons and virtually no ammunition . |
| 3 | For the first few months of 1952 flying concentrated on standardising the instructors and from February , with the arrival of the first B.2s , type conversion for the staff . |
| 4 | During the first few months of this year I made extensive fuel consumption checks and my overall mpg is 22.73 . |
| 5 | It was a fact that quite easily became disheartening during the first few months of captivity . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 8 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You should make sure that you are adequately covered from the start , because the likelihood of a dog running away from home is probably greatest during the first few months of ownership . |
| 11 | There seems to be a readiness in the baby to react keenly to visual stimuli during the first few months of life . |
| 12 | From time to time , during the first few months of our separation , Otto used to ring me . |
| 13 | Fortunately during the first few months of our marriage Bernard , how shall I put it , practised asceticism — I had no chance of getting pregnant , or very little , and after that he was converted to Marxism , and though we were at it all the time for years , he stood over me daily to make sure I ingested a contraceptive chemical . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | After the first few months of feeling sick , many pregnant women find they have a raging appetite . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In December 1987 the cost-of-living index was 170 per cent above its level in December of the previous year , and even under the ‘ price freeze ’ of the first few months of 1988 , prices continued to rise at a rate equivalent to an annual rate of about 100 per cent . |
| 18 | However , this pain commonly resolves spontaneously within the first few months of recovery . |
| 19 | Many beginners find it difficult , at first , to remember the Japanese phrases , but within the first few months of practice the language barrier begins to fade at a rapid rate . |
| 20 | But within the first few months of opening , the hotel was on target and , if anything , had underestimated its weekend business . |
| 21 | the was posted to France and Belgium as part of the British Expedition Force , in the first few months of the outbreak of the war in 1939 , and he realised then that the British Army was not nearly professional enough , compared with the German Army , and he noticed that many of the British Commanding Officers continued to treat the waging of war as some kind of game . |
| 22 | So , although the Bolsheviks did not start the inflationary process , they were unable to stop it either , despite their wish to do so in the first few months of Soviet rule . |
| 23 | In the first few months of independence the Poles came to realise that the lower reaches of the Vistula waterway — their economic lifeline to the coast — had in fact been badly neglected by the Germans . |
| 24 | The argument is that school-leavers are mainly only temporarily unemployed and in the first few months of work are likely to switch jobs as they search for the ones that suit them best . |
| 25 | In the first few months of this year , they accounted for 20% of those applying for asylum in the main European countries . |
| 26 | According to s.6 , as amended by the FSA 1986 , the practice of price stabilisation ( ie. trading activities geared towards stabilising share prices , especially in the first few months of an issue ) , if done in conformity with the rules made under s.48 of the FSA 1986 , can take place despite the fact that such activities would ordinarily be in breach of the insider dealing prohibitions . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The efficiency gains that RBS wrought in the first few months of Project Columbus reflect how much fat it was carrying . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |