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

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1 No direct light should be provided at this time , as the fry are light sensitive for the first week after hatching .
2 This is usual for the first week after a strike but it would not surprise me if things began to happen later in the week .
3 Using cumulative average residual methodology , they found that a portfolio of the recommendations showed a 0.7 per cent abnormal return during the first week after recommendation , and -0.8 per cent after 26 weeks ( with a standard error of 0.97 per cent ) .
4 ALTHOUGH 63 per cent of new mothers breastfeed their babies , 15 per cent give up in the first week after birth , according to a survey by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys .
5 She felt guilty about Miss Hatherby , having written to her only once , in the first week after her arrival in Surrey .
6 In the first week after the birth , she can safely leave her litter of up to six cubs , though more usually three , hidden in the den and helpless to move around on their own , while she hunts .
7 The only casualty came in the first week after the ceasefire last August .
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