Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] for the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voluntary scheme has the backing of the government , which is providing £13 million of funds for the first three years . |
| 2 | In the UK , statutory maternity pay is 90 per cent of earnings for the first six weeks of maternity leave and then a lower rate of £39.25 for a further 12 weeks . |
| 3 | The Relieving Officer for East Greenwich , however , favoured giving relief to widows for the first few weeks after their husband 's death , but after that he believed some of the children should be taken into the workhouse , because he considered that an able-bodied widow should work . |
| 4 | We no longer wear mourning clothes for a fixed period of time , we do n't refuse to go to parties for the first six months after the death of someone close to us , we do n't take time immediately after the death for intensive grieving . |
| 5 | She 'd lived without carpets for the first few weeks and it had been nearly a year before she 'd been able to ditch her old and undersized curtains . |
| 6 | ‘ Thought about nothing but cars for the first twenty-five years of his life , now he thinks about nothing but polo . |