Example sentences of "in [art] first [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 169 Washington babies died before their first birthday in the first six months of this year , bringing the capital 's infant mortality rate to 32.3 deaths for every 1,000 live births , a 50 per cent increase on 1988 . |
| 2 | Worldwide , Lowe International won over £100m of new business in the first six months , more than double the total 1988 increase . |
| 3 | The number of listeria cases rose by a quarter in the first six months of this year , Dr Diane Roberts , of the Central Public Health Laboratory , told a London conference yesterday . |
| 4 | Société Générale , one of the country 's biggest banks , had to raise provisions against dud loans by more than half in the first six months of 1990 . |
| 5 | The 0.1% productivity rise in the first six months of this recession compares with an average fall of 1.2% ( at an annual rate ) in the same period of the past four recessions . |
| 6 | They tracked all the involuntary departures reported in the press of chief executives and chairmen of British firms in the first six months of 1988 . |
| 7 | The Treasury 's forecast , indicates gross domestic product in Britain this year will increase by 1 p.c. , rising to 3 p.c. in the first six months of 1993 , compared with the same period the previous year . |
| 8 | Table 4.2 shows the total amount of time spent by the clients in institutional care ( whether short- or long-term ) in the first six months , and in the first 12 months , after referral to the psychogeriatric service . |
| 9 | In the first six months of 1848 , some 120 local cases were sent to the Middlesex Hospital . |
| 10 | The groups believe that the demand from consumers is increasing : in the first six months of 1989 , sales of organic meat trebled , fruit and vegetable sales doubled and demand for organic cereals by millers quadrupled . |
| 11 | As it happened , of the 5381 children who arrived in the first six months of 1939 , only 113 re-emigrated , and most of those went to join their parents who had escaped Germany by other routes . |
| 12 | In the first six months of 1939 , the staff of the RCM at Bloomsbury House , mostly volunteers , fluctuated between sixty and seventy . |
| 13 | This number is seen to be much higher in the later 1970s and in the 1980s , supporting the view that more and more school-leavers were then finding it increasingly difficult to obtain jobs in the first six months after leaving school . |
| 14 | IN the first six months of 1992 , 35,750 households lost their homes ( which could mean nearly as many repossessions as last year ) ; and , even worse , at the end of June 1992 , 305,140 households were in arrears of six months or more , compared to 275,350 at the end of 1991 , suggesting a rising trend . |
| 15 | Homelessness continues to be a major problem : in the first six months of 1992 , 73,310 households were accepted as homeless by local authorities in England alone . |
| 16 | BAD debts at Southern Water more than doubled to £2.7m in the first six months to end-September , when profits rose 8% to Pounds 60m . |
| 17 | Indeed , City analysts reckon that in the first six months of 1992 listed companies ' dividends only increased by 2% as companies tried to improve their balance sheets and build up dividend cover . |
| 18 | The volume of factored turnover rose 10% to £7.52bn in the first six months after an increase of just 2.5% in the whole of 1991 , according to the Association of British Factors and Discounters ( ABFD ) , which represents 11 of the largest factoring companies . |
| 19 | In the first six months of 1992 the group 's investment return totalled £31.1m ( v £46.8m ) , made up of investment income £25.2m ( v £21.3m ) , interest expense £0.6m ( v £0.6m ) , realised investment gains £13.8m ( v £11.7m ) , and unrealised investment losses £7.3m ( v gains £14.4m ) . |
| 20 | Indeed when the hope finally collapsed , in the first six months of 1939 , the peace movement collapsed with it . |
| 21 | A stronger second half when turnover was up 12% helped the group recover from a disappointing performance in the first six months , said chairman James Millar . |
| 22 | In the first six months of this year nearly 30,000 small firms went to the wall — a third up on 1991 . |
| 23 | BUILDING giant Wimpey crashed more than £7 million into the red in the first six months of this year — despite earning £730 million . |
| 24 | Britain 's trade gap in the first six months of this year was £6 billion — nearly the total Chancellor Lamont had predicted for the whole year back in March . |
| 25 | INSURANCE giant General Accident has few grumbles over its £21 million loss in the first six months of the year . |
| 26 | They 've cost GRE a whopping £28 million in claims in the first six months of this year . |
| 27 | In the first six months of this year , the society wrote off £26 million to homebuyers who have failed to keep up payments . |
| 28 | The independent Turkish Human Rights Foundation reported 179 allegations made by criminal as well as political suspects in the first six months of 1992 alone . |
| 29 | The Russian Ministry of the Interior reports that , in the first six months of this year , 2,211 crimes in that field have been registered and about 10,000 works of art stolen from State museums and private collectors . |
| 30 | The stocking rate , for a fish only aquarium , is 1″ of fish for every 4 gallons nett ( 20″ in your case ) in the first six months , building up to 1″ for every 2 gallons over the next month ( 40″ for your tank ) . |