Example sentences of "during [art] first [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucien had had little experience of female-kind in his life , and it was the women of Mandru 's household who were the most kind to him during the first traumatic days of his life there . |
| 2 | But within weeks he was killed by shellfire while he was at rest at Cambrai , France , during the first major tank battle in history . |
| 3 | His rise to prominence came during the first Dutch war ( 1652–4 ) . |
| 4 | Which Councils — more often than not called synods during the first thousand years — were ecumenical was determined not by the pope , but by their reception in the Church at large . |
| 5 | Bayer fared slightly better than its rivals , turning in a 4 per cent drop in pre-tax profits during the first nine months of the year — from DM 2750m to DM 2640m . |
| 6 | Under a scheme introduced at Shell Chemicals in February last year women receive six months ' maternity pay , half at the beginning of their leave and the rest paid in stages during the first nine months after they return to work . |
| 7 | Rhône-Poulenc announced a rise in operating profits of 8.1 per cent during the first nine months of 1991 to FFr 4887m ( £1 = FFr9.68 ) , despite a persistently poor economic climate . |
| 8 | During the first nine months of 1992 , 47 companies obtained a full listing and only five a USM quotation . |
| 9 | The London exchange , reporting the figures in its latest quarterly publication , said that 900 people left the industry during the first nine months of the year , cutting total staff numbers to 22,100 . |
| 10 | It was during the first four decades of the twentieth century that the major contours of psychoanalytic theory were first developed by Freud . |
| 11 | During the first four breaths , check for a pulse by feeling on the neck just under the jaw line at the ear lobe . |
| 12 | During the first four days of interferon therapy indomethacin or paracetamol was given to suppress early side effects . |
| 13 | Lambs : Marketings of new season lambs fell by nine per cent in Great Britain during the first four days of the week commencing May 31 . |
| 14 | Just two miles from the German forward positions , the Mort Homme seemed hardly beyond the scope of a determined thrust — especially when it was recalled that the Fifth Army had advanced three times as far during the first four days alone on the Right Bank . |
| 15 | Finished Cattle : Throughputs of finished cattle increased in England and Wales while marketings fell slightly in Scotland during the first four days of the week commencing 26 October . |
| 16 | Lambs : Auction market throughputs of lambs were 10 per cent lower in Great Britain during the first four days of the week commencing 26 October . |
| 17 | During the epidemic of 1854 Dr Snow uncovered the following facts out of 134 deaths from cholera during the first four weeks , 115 of the fatal cases occurred in houses supplied by the Southwark and Vauxhall Company , only 14 in that of the Lambeth Company 's houses , and the remainder in houses that got their water from pump wells or direct from the river . |
| 18 | You will probably feel better if you eat little and often , so this helps to maintain your blood sugar level , and prevents you from getting " the munchies ' , especially during the first four weeks of the diet , when you are first restricting your diet . |
| 19 | NEONATAL MORTALITY — MORTALITY of new-born children during the first four weeks ( or first month ) of life ( neonatal period ) . |
| 20 | Patients assigned to receive steroids consumed an unrestricted diet and were asked to record their food intake during the first four weeks . |
| 21 | A developmental progression of toilet training emerges during the first four years of life . |
| 22 | During the first four years of PNP , the Authority appears to have mounted no fewer than 376 primary in-service courses at the Primary Centre . |
| 23 | Gow was for many years a close associate of Margaret Thatcher , the Prime Minister , having been her parliamentary private secretary during the first four years of her premiership in 1979-83 , and a member of her government as Minister of Housing in 1983-85 and a Minister of State at the Treasury from September to November 1985 . |
| 24 | The survival curve for the study shows that the highest mortality is during the first four years after diagnosis . |
| 25 | After shrinking slightly over the past few years , the gap grew to nearly $10 billion during the first four months of this year , up from a little over $6 billion for the same period in 1990 . |
| 26 | ABOVE RIGHT A medical textbook s illustration from 1794 showing the development of the foetus during the first four months after conception . |
| 27 | The period of greatest rent increases , during the first four months of this year , corresponds with the scrapping , on 15 January , of fair rents and the introduction of assured tenancies for all new lettings . |
| 28 | On May 25 the Taiwanese Board of Foreign Trade released figures which showed that trade between Taiwan and eastern Europe had amounted to US$194,100,000 during the first four months of 1991 an 82.4 per cent increase over the same period in 1990 . |
| 29 | The tittering started during the first five minutes of the piece , and grew . |
| 30 | The mistake committed by the Stalinist planners during the First Five Year Plan … is a confusion between maximum and optimum rate of accumulation . |