Example sentences of "[prep] the first few [noun pl] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For the first few days they were all a bit subdued , ’ Bob said . |
| 2 | For the first few years they were happy together . |
| 3 | For the first few months they earned only a few pennies a week between them and Sal became convinced they would all end up in the workhouse if they kept failing to cough up the rent . |
| 4 | There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end . |
| 5 | In the first few weeks they treated his wife nicely . |