Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Choose a sun protection factor of 15 or more for the first few days .
2 Yet more men were coming from the crossroads and deploying left and right beyond the first two units .
3 And then after the first seven or eight s cuttings , then they used to come along stooking .
4 And indeed for the first few weeks there is a manic response of getting up at the usual time and finding things to do , but which gradually subsides into grief and depression .
5 This is not to denigrate what the Six did achieve economically and politically during the first few years of the organisation .
6 But midway through the first half the Leeds performance improved dramatically with two tries in three minutes .
7 Attacks on some of Iran 's smaller towns and cities occurred comparatively early in the war , but apart from the first two days , it is not clear when either side decided to strike at population centres as a strategic option .
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