Example sentences of "the first year of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were surprised at the continuing estimates of fixed costs , as we would have expected a minimal time investment after the first year of familiarisation , but given that training was identified as the major cost , it may be that this forms the bulk of the continuing cost . |
| 2 | The mean cost in the first year of treatment of sclerotherapy patients ( £1094 ) was a quarter of the mean cost of surgery patients ( £4368 ) , and this difference is highly significant ( p<0.0001 ) . |
| 3 | For those surviving the first year of life , however , the chances were improving ; death-rate fell from 23 per 1,000 ( living ) in 1841 to 18 per 1,000 in 1901 . |
| 4 | Do not give the child eggs , fish , chocolate , wheat , oranges , peanuts or other nuts for at least the first six months , and preferably for the first year of life . |
| 5 | The attachment to a preferred person develops most strongly in the first year of life . |
| 6 | During the first year of life children seem to become aware of objects and to realise that objects behave in quite different ways to themselves and to other people . |
| 7 | Anxious children showed a slightly different pattern : there were often marked increases in fears and worries during the first year of life of the sibling . |
| 8 | 1980 ) and onset is during the second half of the first year of life . |
| 9 | During the first year of life weight gain is due to increase in size of fat cells , but from 12 to 18 months increase in weight is due primarily to an increase in fat cell number ( Knittle et al . |
| 10 | Many mothers do not even try to toilet train their children until the age of 2 years or later while others deliberately train their child during the first year of life ( Douglas and Richman 1984 ) . |
| 11 | Biological anthropology in the present context considers infants and their care within an evolutionary perspective , arguing that over the millions of years it has taken for humans to evolve , infant-parent contact was likely to have been virtually constant for at least the first year of life . |
| 12 | Bronchitis and other respiratory illnesses are significantly more common in the first year of life in children who have one or two smoking parents [ 12 ] . |
| 13 | Infants of parents who smoke are more likely to be admitted to hospital for bronchitis and pneumonia in the first year of life . |
| 14 | The proportion of infants exposed to smoking by their mothers , from other family members , from non-household sources and from more than one of these sources , increased significantly during the first year of life . |
| 15 | The most spectacular change in mortality rates over the past 150 years has related to deaths within the first year of life — the infant mortality rate . |
| 16 | Consequently decreased mortality among all ages ( but especially in the first year of life ) , together with a long-term reduction in fertility , have combined to produce an ageing population structure . |
| 17 | Mortality is relatively high in the first year of life and then decreases during childhood ( see Table 3.1 ) . |
| 18 | These improvements in mortality are now almost totally confined to the first year of life and the years after age 65 . |
| 19 | The greatest changes in sleep in humans take place during the first year of life , with the normal one-year-old showing essentially the same patterns of sleep as the adult , although in different proportions of stages , and with a recognizably different EEG . |
| 20 | As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four . |
| 21 | The Black Report produced evidence which showed that during the first year of life , illness , rather than accidents , is the main cause of death . |
| 22 | The most fundamental events in people 's lives are strongly affected by their social class , ranging from their chances of surviving the first year of life through likely age of marriage and number of children to the kind of diseases they are most likely to die of ( Reid 1977 ) . |
| 23 | Greenough and colleagues showed that preterm babies who did not require respiratory support had a high prevalence of wheeze and cough in the first year of life . |
| 24 | The observations invariably show that the risk of dying before reaching the end of the first year of life is higher for infants born to mothers who were closer to the lower and upper limits of the reproductive period than to those who were in the prime of their childbearing ages . |
| 25 | However , the under 20 age group includes 18–19-year-old mothers whose children , under conditions of relatively low levels of overall infant mortality , have about the same low , or even lower , risk of dying during the first year of life as those born to women in the age group 25–29 years and face a much lower risk than those born to mothers below 18 years of age . |
| 26 | Even the teenage mothers ' infants had good chances of surviving the first year of life , if their fathers were 25–29 years old . |
| 27 | The investigators have begun a follow-up study of eight babies from the age of 2 months to establish the pattern of development in the first year of life . |
| 28 | Young children in this environment are prone to recurrent febrile illnesses , known to inhibit gastric acid secretion , and theincidence of acute Helicobacter pylori infection in this particular community is approaching 50% in the first year of life . |
| 29 | Although the effect of combined schedules on wild virus circulation has not been established , large reductions in the incidence of paralytic disease were achieved in the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza following routine administration of two doses of IPV and five doses of OPV during the first year of life . |
| 30 | The risk of death is high for the first year of life , falls sharply to reach a minimum during the teens then climbs , especially from middle age onwards . |