Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the first six " in BNC.

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1 Patients who start out using high levels of gum — about one piece every waking hour for the first six weeks of quitting — do better than half-hearted chewers .
2 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 .
3 The quotas cover 39 species ; the National Marine Fisheries Service can halt fishing if it finds the catch has reached the quota for the first six months of the year .
4 At present , patients are prevented from receiving the benefit for the first six months of a terminal illness .
5 Izvestiya reported on July 20 the conclusions of the State Statistics Committee for the first six months of 1992 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 There are now 34 owner-members each with one share and one vote , paying a membership fee for the first six years .
11 It 's erm I 've got I mean I 've got a job for the first six weeks already set up with
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 The company were more than twenty five million pounds in the red for the first six months of nineteen ninety three .
16 It 's aiming for deliveries of 1000 copies of V4.2 a month for the first six months from October .
17 Roger : The suggested levels are £60 per week for the first six months , followed by £30 per week for the last six months , but these have n't been agreed yet .
18 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 .
19 He planted Fleming over the square-leg boundary for the first six of the day , and hit two fours in his brisk 25 .
20 As part of a five-year probation , Griffin must not leave the jail-like clinic for the first six months .
21 Having calculated the profit for the first six months discuss whether the profit figure is a useful benchmark for measuring the performance of the business , and also whether it is useful as a guide to future profitability .
22 Admits , though , that he stayed in the clubhouse for the first six innings of a game ‘ because I do n't want anyone to see me sweat ’ .
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