| Incubation time is short, 10 to 12 days, which allows the young cowbird to get a head start in the nest. |
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| Errant shots from the outskirts invariably result in long rebounds that give the Nets ' running game a considerable head start. |
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| That way, shallow rooted weeds like foxtail and bluegrass will be unable to grow until the alfalfa has a head start. |
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| If the surface elements speak clearly to them, readers will have a head start on the text. |
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| They had a head start in that their assistant manager Ian Butterworth used to play alongside Prior at Norwich City. |
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| But it did give them a head start if they felt ready to take their music to the next level. |
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| Now's the perfect time to plant it to give it a head start on the growing season. |
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| A dry, crumbly or even slightly cloddy surface with moist, fine soil at seeding depth gives the crop a good head start over the weeds. |
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| The skirret gets an early head start, and is in full size and bloom by the time the hog peanut gets going. |
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| The shoots will be well away as soon as they are under the ground, giving the plant a head start and guaranteeing lots of delicious spuds. |
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| The warrior had had a head start, but Norwood wasn't weighed down by any heavy, clanking armour. |
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| By the time the US trade embargo on Vietnam was lifted in 1994, Coke already had a head start in developing the Vietnamese market. |
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| You'll also get a head start on drastic end-of-line reductions and special offers. |
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| Obviously, those marketing giants have a head start on successfully convincing the public that their drinks are wholesome and fun to drink. |
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| Their earnings will enable them to maintain accommodation and so on on the outside, and give them a head start when they leave prison. |
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| Given the amount of travel I have coming up, I don't need a head start on getting sick. |
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| Greater support for boosting the skills of workers is another way in which businesses can get a head start over their competitors. |
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| However, naming a rose after a well-loved public figure can give it a head start. |
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| Obviously it will fade as your skin sheds dead layers over a week or so, so give yourself a head start by applying the products on younger cells. |
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| If you were fleeing tyranny, you would bring everything that could possibly give you a head start in the new society. |
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| Granted, with the roll call of the most illustrious pieces of golf real estate on their books they've already got a bit of a head start. |
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| The hare would be given a head start and lay a trail with shreds of paper, to be chased by the hounds or harriers. |
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| His oldest brother, Tory, would give him an hour's head start before following in his car. |
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| Media Puzzle had a two-length head start on his stablemate, which Vinnie Roe made up by the end of the five-furlong open gallop. |
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| Why do rich people's siblings deserve such a massive head start in life when there are millions of people living on the breadline? |
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| A prize portfolio could mean a head start in the race, but those overlooked or given poisoned chalices would be early casualties. |
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| Left wing politicos would do well to start campaigning at the local level now and get a head start on their opponents. |
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| It world take forever to find the pair in town, especially with nearly an hour head start. |
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| If the bulldogger breaks the barrier before the steer reaches his head start, a 10-second penalty is assessed. |
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| The next day, just one minute before our alarm clock rings for gym time, my phone took a head start and shrilled loudly. |
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| Just reading the names together in one sentence made my head start banging furiously and caused me to shotgun a beer. |
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| It will give you a head start on those guests who take a leisurely breakfast and arrive mid morning. |
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| There's a race on to win the minds of the screenager and Messrs Sony, Sega and Nintendo have been given a huge head start. |
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| Many herbs get a head start when planted now, so put in some coriander, fennel, marjoram, oregano and parsley. |
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| In this regard, the classroom has got a head start on e-learning. |
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| We're giving him a good head start so he can find somewhere else to hide. |
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| As hon. members are certainly aware, when it comes to child care, parental leave and a number of other areas, Quebec has a big head start. |
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| As well, I have been lobbying for years for the head start program for young aboriginal children. |
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| For now, the criminals will continue to have a head start on the law enforcement agencies. |
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| The difficult work of eliminating proposals will get an informal head start and continue in Barcelona in November. |
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| Many former cadets say that the Cadet Program gave them a head start in their successful careers. |
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| This is to secure and increase the head start we have on our competitors in the market. |
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| Giving your children a head start on their life insurance coverage can be a good investment in their future. |
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| Mothers do have a head start in the attachment process through pregnancy, birthing and breastfeeding. |
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| A hare is be given a short head start to blaze a trail, marking his devious way with shreds of paper, soon to be pursued by a shouting pack of harriers. |
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| We can ask the children in Ohio and Pennsylvania who will no longer receive the early education that head start provides. |
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| Start by finding out if a more-fitting job exists within your company, in which case you may have a head start over the other schnooks who want it. |
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| They were on foot, and that should have made them easy meat, despite their head start, yet none of the men Churnazh could fully trust had found a trace of them. |
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| This behavior explains how one firm with a head start can use tie-in sales and other behavior to prevent generic complementary products from being developed. |
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| In terms of body count in Iraq this is true, though the man had a big head start on us, so we ought to be allowed a couple of decades to catch up. |
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| And I got into the office early this morning so as to get a head start. |
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| Overall, the Career Focus Internship Program offered me a huge head start. |
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| Patients with financial resources or some level of comfort have a head start, but homecare cannot be solely dependent on patients and their families. |
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| Get a head start in learning what kind of an investor you are with the BMO Investor Profiler, a sophisticated but simple tool you can complete on your own. |
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| The loss of this head start for US inventors at home was compensated by the international sanction, via the WTO, of US efforts to protect its IP abroad. |
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| The first five years of children's lives are critical to their cognitive and physical development, and to giving children the head start they need in life. |
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| The only advantage we have is that, today, Europe can, as Mr Almunia and President Sarkozy have both stressed, assert itself firmly, make its voice heard on the international stage, take the reins and get a head start. |
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| And to clamber up there you need a head start. |
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| They're grubbier and stubblier too, in T-shirts that hang limply, thanks to a five-day head start of water, sweat, and grit. |
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| Down through different eras and across the full range of its activities, the Kudelski business has always demonstrated that it had a complete mastery of technology and a vision that gave it a head start. |
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| Moreover, it is very much the question whether a prior assessment of the market impact and a public evaluation of the new services will not give commercial competitors too much of a head start. |
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| The head start program works very well and is very useful at reducing the incidence of youth crime in general, including the aspect of dangerous offenders. |
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| And the Dundonian already has a head start in that department as he's a former world champion kickboxer. |
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| By hatching first, the cowbird gets a head start on feeding and becomes the biggest, grabbiest nestling. |
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| Even gains from growth, as reported by some African countries in the last few years, are nowhere near enough to make up for the industrialised and emerging economies' head start. |
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| When she was caught giving the Conservatives a head start, she tried to implicate the rest of us members of Parliament to partake in this by bringing our little goodie bags as well. |
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| We wish you a good time reading and a big head start. |
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| We are limited only by our imagination! so give them a good head start by surrounding them with delightful images upon which to gaze, dream and fantasize! |
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| Within the family, the Brenns say equality and honesty, combined with a good head start and a few other key elements, are worth their weight in gold in succession planning. |
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| When the local Board office receives advance notice of the application, the Board and its staff can get a head start on making arrangements for both the involvement of a LRO and the more formal hearing. |
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| Installers who have already developed expertise have a head start. |
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| In fact Southport had a head start compared to all the other places on the Lancashire coast because it had easy access to the canal system. |
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| In the cup races, the Australians got off to a bad start with equipment failures and false starts giving the defenders a head start. |
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| Fred gave his younger brother a five minute head start in the Easter egg hunt. |
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| Getting a head start on saving by opening an RESP when your child is born will help. |
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| Chitting potatoes simply means making the seed potato sprout before you plant it so they have a head start. |
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| I want to set off at dawn to get a head start over the competition. |
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