Example sentences of "[noun] in [art] first few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This makes it easier to lose weight in the first few weeks , at a rate which can be up to 4lb per week . |
| 2 | Our losses in the first few months of 1943 were rather harmful , and would have been very damaging to morale ; something happened about that time which affected me very deeply . |
| 3 | The scholar , Hector Boece , first Principal of Aberdeen University , writing about Ayrshire in the first few years of the 16th century , observed that , , another indication of the age of the legend . |
| 4 | One consequence of the rise in private asset ownership among elderly people is that many of them do not suffer any drastic reduction of their ability to consume on retirement : indeed , tax changes in the 1970s that encouraged pension schemes to pay out some of their assets as a lump sum mean that many retirees experience an increase in their consumption propensity in the first few years of retirement . |
| 5 | Children who witness sexual intercourse in the first few years of their lives see it as a sort of ill-treatment , an assault by the man on the woman ; ‘ they view it that is in a sadistic sense ’ . |
| 6 | On April 14 Kaunda told Radio Zambia that in view of Zambia 's experiences in the first few years after independence , when more than one party had operated , " the question of whether the multiparty system will solve Zambia 's problems is a yes-and-no situation which has to be considered very cautiously " . |
| 7 | Although he may receive more help in the first few months than the widow usually does , he may find that his sudden change in life-style is a considerable shock . |
| 8 | To condemn the child in the first few days of its life , and engineer its death can only be a gross misjustice . |
| 9 | It 's also packed with the mother 's antibodies against common things like flu , which help protect the baby from infections in the first few months of his life . |
| 10 | Imprinting usually takes place in the first few days after birth . |
| 11 | Traffic through the Mersey tunnels was down 4.9pc in the year ending in April but a spokesman said indications were that it had regained 3pc of that business in the first few months of this year . |
| 12 | The newly-flooded margins will be attractive to the fish in the first few days , until the sudden influx of size ten waders make them wary . |
| 13 | The question of the birth rate was to be more crucial in the years after the Education Act , in the debates around the Royal Commission on Population , which reported in 1948–49 , but the existence of the commission itself from 1943 demonstrates public and official concern with such ideas in the first few years of the war . |
| 14 | It is , however absolutely essential to prohibit all growth of grass and weeds for a metre round each tree in the first few years and while this is fairly simple to achieve by spraying with something such as glyphsate or by using a weed suppressing mat , there is still a substantial area to cut . |
| 15 | Bombings in the first few months of last year — among them attacks at Lurgan and Fivemiletown — accounted for part of the £100m bill . |
| 16 | A key development in the first few months of life is ‘ joint reference ’ : the ability of a young baby to follow mother 's eye-gaze in order that they can jointly experience the same event . |
| 17 | A report has been published which looks at the operation of the new Mental Illness Specific Grant in the first few months after its introduction in April this year . |
| 18 | In the same year , Percy Shelley and Edward Williams drowned when the Don Juan sank in the Bay of Spezia , and Clairmont cared for the widows in the first few weeks . |
| 19 | A minor difficulty in the first few weeks was the shortage of outer red nylon bags for infected or fouled linen caused by greater use of the appropriate inner bags and the reminder about colour codes . |
| 20 | In his Mercedes he was stopped four times in the first few days . |
| 21 | 1 Pain and discomfort in the first few weeks after surgery . |
| 22 | 1 Pain and discomfort in the first few weeks after surgery . |
| 23 | The way that this has happened is repeated in different ways in the first few verses of our reading : |
| 24 | In evidence presented to the commission in the first few months , details were given of irregularities in the handling and documentation in Antigua of the shipment of arms from Israel and their discovery in Colombia . |
| 25 | What happens in is you do have the people in that area in the first few weeks . |
| 26 | And Cambridge almost wrapped up the game in the first few minutes of the second half but were denied by Oldham goalkeeper John Keeley , who pulled off an excellent save to push away a curling , 20-yard Chris Leadbetter free-kick , then fingertipped a header from Mick Heathcote on to the crossbar . |
| 27 | Many children develop allergies in the first few weeks or months of life , and often these improve as the years go by . |
| 28 | Baby carriers/slings leave your hands and arms free , and are a good way of transporting your baby in the first few months . |
| 29 | An infection in a baby in the first few weeks of life can cause mental handicap , especially if the baby is premature . |
| 30 | So a mass suicide had erm you know the people were planning a mass suicide in the first few days of the siege . |