Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] few [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This part of Enfield has those yellow sodium lamps that have that delicate rosy glow for the first few minutes after they are switched on . |
| 2 | He walked barefoot around the reception building , on the new tarmac for the first few strides and then onto the beaten earth pathway that would lead to the back , his flashlight beam ranging over the ground as he moved . |
| 3 | For the first few days after the story broke Creed lived in the car . |
| 4 | Obviously for the first few days after I could n't sleep . |
| 5 | As a full stomach makes it even harder for a baby with RDS to breathe he was n't able to feed for the first few days and relied on the drip . |
| 6 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A sympathetic doctor may help and so will friends and family ready to give support and put up with unreasonable behaviour for the first few weeks or more . |
| 9 | Malcolm Cole 's programme notes do n't specify the circumstances of the ‘ grim struggle for survival which left serious composition out of the question ’ for the first few years after he had settled in the United States in 1939 , but , whatever they were , they informed his music with an intensity that the exuberance of his early style did n't find much room for . |
| 10 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 11 | A single budded standard , or a double where one has failed , can look distinctly lop-sided for the first few years until it has had time to develop — this is the sort of stuff you have to watch out for in the cheap ‘ end of season nursery clearance sales ’ and street markets . |
| 12 | This was in excess of 10% for the first few months and was over 20% in some parts of Wales . |
| 13 | After all , it 's served you well for the past few hours and may now be looking forward to you treating it . |
| 14 | He could not explain it , but his putting had gone to pieces for the past few months and he was missing shots which formerly he would have holed with ease . |
| 15 | Luck had been on Cassie 's side up until now , for Stephanie had been working in Germany for the past few weeks and this circumstance had removed the necessity of proffering an invitation ; with , of course , the desirable Martin in attendance . |
| 16 | EUROPE has been treated to high comedy for the past few weeks as governments , corporations and journalists have fallen all over each other in a made game of find-the barrels . |
| 17 | He has played in Sicily for the past few years and has decided to renew his contract . |
| 18 | She was worried about her husband ; it had been obvious for the past few days that something was preying on his mind . |
| 19 | For the last few minutes before Ellen appeared , Ruth stood by the window , looking down the dale . |
| 20 | The relief of escaping from his company was so intense that she felt as if she 'd been wired up to an electric charge for the last few hours and someone had finally taken pity on her and turned off the power . |
| 21 | Modigliani moved in to be with her for the last few days and at the end of November Jeanne entered the Nice Maternity Hospital . |
| 22 | He was conscious on admission , explained he had felt unwell for the last few days and had intended seeing a doctor today . |
| 23 | Moulvi ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered by the Muslims ' breaking open the doors of the mosque , which had been kept locked for the last few months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas . |
| 24 | Philip , who is to take his A Levels this summer , has been studying at Repton for the last few months and will join the Academy in August , two months after Zara arrives at the Academy 's Hemel Hempstead base . |
| 25 | I have n't been happy for the last few months and when an old girlfriend asked me out I went along and enjoyed myself . |
| 26 | So you , you could put him into property , erm but erm I do n't know if he 'd been in the U K for the last few years whether he 'd be that keen on commercial property . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 28 | Cornwall has kept the Championship flag flying for the last few years and has continued to emphasise my own view that such a competition could have an important place . |
| 29 | Such an event normally takes us to Dartmoor or Exmoor , has run on the same basis for the last few years and is planned to the last minute — so why the meeting ? |
| 30 | Maureen has n't worked for the last few years and she 's ill herself , she 's got hepatitis B. |