Example sentences of "[prep] the first week or " in BNC.

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1 Those who have become used to low-fibre food may suffer from a little flatulence for the first week or two .
2 RIVER CROSSENS : Good fishery but often slow for the first week or so until fish located .
3 This helps to protect them from starvation during the first week or two , when conditions may still be hard .
4 Some sufferers , notably juveniles addicted to many drugs , commonly take six to eight weeks because their minds are still fogged from the drugs during the first week or two and because they have not been accustomed in their earlier lives to dealing with emotional pain except by recourse to mood-altering chemicals .
5 What we normally do is get together with the rhythm section for about the first week or so — and it 's just heaven because you 're just a small band .
6 After the first week or so of following the diet , with any possible withdrawal symptoms behind you , things should look up .
7 Weight is very quickly lost in the first week or so of most diets , but slows down somewhat after that .
8 This blanket term covers the ‘ blues ’ at one end of the spectrum ( affecting between 70 and 80 per cent of all women in the first week or so after birth ) to the post-puerperal psychosis which temporarily hospitalizes three in every thousand mothers .
9 I 've bought all sorts really , but normally in the first week or two of getting paid , I 'd buy a gram or whatever and make it last for four or five days , so I 'd sort of have a quarter a day out of it .
10 WHY IS IT EASIER TO LOSE WEIGHT IN THE FIRST WEEK OR TWO ?
11 In the first week or the second ?
12 and they fall flat on their face in the first week or so .
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