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 . |