Example sentences of "during the first few " in BNC.

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1 Most gliding clubs have a system of re-checking pilots during the first few hours of solo flying , but then pilots are left very much to their own devices to improve their soaring techniques .
2 This is especially important during the first few weeks of pregnancy when you might not even know you are pregnant .
3 The oligosaccharides have been found to be particularly concentrated in colostrum — the thick , creamy pre-milk that is produced by the breasts in late pregnancy and during the first few days after birth before the breastmilk proper comes in .
4 Because the accident went unmonitored during the first few vital hours and days , certain statistics will never be available .
5 This uneasy compromise was not a major difficulty during the first few years as the national economic problems of the early thirties , reductions in public expenditure and depressed employment conditions all led to severe restrictions on the development of adult education .
6 During the first few months of this year I made extensive fuel consumption checks and my overall mpg is 22.73 .
7 Proteins from foods can also pass through the stomach during the first few months , and so lead to problems .
8 Breast milk , the best milk for such babies or for those who have had to undergo an operation during the first few days or weeks of life , is collected from mothers of healthy babies who have more than enough to satisfy their needs .
9 ( June 22-July 23 ) Although Jupiter is now sparkling away in your own birth sign and you in turn should feel decidedly more buoyant or optimistic , unfortunately , the atmosphere at home is likely to remain strained during the first few days of the month .
10 During the first few nights he had found sleep almost impossible .
11 Some of our final year students who were soon to be ordained , feeling the need for some kind of support system , especially during the first few years of ministry , decided to create their own cells .
12 But by all means take a flask of tea or coffee to drink during the first few hours , but flasked drinks always taste stale after ten or twelve hours .
13 It was a fact that quite easily became disheartening during the first few months of captivity .
14 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 .
15 What happens during the first few days when a resident comes to live in a Home ?
16 During the first few weeks in a Home everyone concerned with the resident , and of course the resident too , will be thinking about the best care for the person .
17 During the first few weeks , it 's important that you spend as much time as possible with a new resident , getting to know them and their family and working on their care plan .
18 During the first few days of the Blitz I had to go to Kings Cross and there I saw whole streams of weary and frightened East Enders pouring through the station , intent only on getting away from the bombing with what bits and pieces of their belongings they had been able to salvage ; with their small children crying and bewildered , and family pets bundled up in rugs or protesting loudly in makeshift cardboard boxes .
19 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 .
20 The following quotations illustrate the widely differing views of this common problem : ‘ During the first few weeks of life the average baby sleeps a great deal but , when awake , cries lustily and often … .
21 It is not known whether or not he ever returned to visit his mother during the first few years but it is certainly true that , latterly , he was not back in the county for many years .
22 For some , homesickness is so bad during the first few months that they have no alternative but to go back home again .
23 During the first few months he worked with a gang of local road-menders , filling pot-holes on the highway , smoothing cambers , paving the dirt tracks that led to ranches .
24 It rained during the first few days .
25 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 .
26 You must not worry too much if she seems a bit depressed during the first few months , instead of being a ‘ sweet and grateful granny ’ .
27 Walnut was used for the bodies and necks during the first few years of production but later Gibson switched to mahogany as this proved to be a more stable material , with less material wastage during the timber selection procedure .
28 Fees for the session 1992/93 will be approximately £195 for the day classes and £171 for evening classes payable during the first few weeks of the course .
29 Fees for the session 1992/93 will be approximately £98 — payable during the first few weeks of the course .
30 During the first few years after the British first gained control over the Low Country there was much administrative confusion .
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