Example sentences of "during the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the first 11 months of 1990 AI sent 68 delegates to 50 countries ranging from Jordan to Nepal , from the USA to Romania . |
| 2 | Depending on the school , a full term 's work of ten to twelve weeks may be spent on one production project during the first term , with either a workshop or text study area at the end of the period . |
| 3 | The agreement came about through a delicate set of potentially dangerous encounters between the Irish party and the Roman catholic bishops during the first two decades of the present century . |
| 4 | Water freely in dry weather during the first two seasons , and feed plants each year with a general fertiliser ( 2oz/sq yd ) , starting immediately after their first clipping . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Get the wing-tip holder to keep the down wind wing-tip high and apply a little aileron to prevent it falling during the first part of the take-off run . |
| 7 | The loads on the structure are lower during the first half of the launch and it is not unusual to exceed the placard speed for a few seconds during the initial steepening of the climb . |
| 8 | Failure to get up into the full climb is the usual cause of serious overspeeding during the first third of the launch . |
| 9 | Certainly during the first five hundred feet or so the pilot should be aware of possible fields ahead . |
| 10 | Taking unprescribed pills or medicines , especially during the first three months of pregnancy , could harm your baby . |
| 11 | This is especially important during the first few weeks of pregnancy when you might not even know you are pregnant . |
| 12 | During the first three years of full-time drug squad work ( 1966–8 ) arrests totalled some sixty-four persons — or less than two per month . |
| 13 | The following section deals with the basic exercises you will use during the first 6 months . |
| 14 | Another development during the first half of the 1980s hastened the decline in ordinary charter-train operation : the wholesale withdrawal of ageing steamheated 90mph Mk 1 coaching stock from which such trains were usually formed . |
| 15 | This view , taken during the first month of operation , shows three–car unit No C312 entering the station working the 11.35 ( sundays ) Treherbert to Barry service on 30 October 1983 . |
| 16 | During the first ascent a precariously jammed flake provided a valuable aid to progress . |
| 17 | During the first party , children give the dogs treats . |
| 18 | Sales were hit by the drop in retail spending during the first half of 1989 . |
| 19 | The son of a professor , Boomer became interested in golf when he watched the six-times Open Champion Harry Vardon , whose birthplace he shared , playing in Jersey during the First World War . |
| 20 | But the Frenchman fell victim during the first off-road stage turning his car over several times . |
| 21 | The Supreme Court 's July ruling admitted for the first time in 16 years the right of individual states to restrict abortions during the first six months of pregnancy . |
| 22 | The tourists had looked decidedly ordinary at times during the first half , but combined more fluently in the second to run up their most convincing victory to date , albeit a hollow one . |
| 23 | During the First World War a box of matches cost 1d and a matchbox grip 4d : a price just substantial enough to warrant a ‘ Thank you ’ when given free to a pub or grocer 's store customer , and just substantial enough to make money for a stationer or the many charities which sold them . |
| 24 | Gareth Chilcott — popularised as the Oddjob of English rugby during the first World Cup in Australia in 1987 , but affectionately referred to as ‘ Coochie ’ in these parts — was sent off for punching , and 14 men of Bath succumbed to Gloucester 's 15 . |
| 25 | During the first film , Storm Over the Nile , there is such a storm of noise in the cinema from the drunken audience that it proves impossible to follow the plot at all . |
| 26 | With special affection I remember the metro railway enthusiasts who , confronted by rigorous structuralist films or scenes of sexual and scatalogical excess , walked out of the cinema in baffled confusion during the first NFT International Underground Film Festival and indignantly demanded their money back after having booked for a whole season of what seemed like fascinating specialist delights : German Underground , American Underground , Italian Underground . |
| 27 | There , she had been happy in Pakistan ; she had been happy in the Peckham house at least for the first year ; she had been happy working for Graham ; she 'd been enthusiastically interested at college and during the first two years after she had qualified ; she had been completely delighted when she had got the job she now had : a tenants ' association garden in a dreadful estate in Hackney , but where she , with a community group , had planned the garden from scratch and had made a small desert blossom like a rose . |
| 28 | The chances are that during the first eight or nine years you may appear to be treading water in the process of proving yourself . |
| 29 | Rose had already started to paint the main room of the house during the first exam . |
| 30 | The Bristol area had over two inches of rainfall in two days during the first week of January , and that was followed by one of the wettest and stormiest periods for some time . |