Example sentences of "[pron] for the first [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The tigress suckles them for the first six months , by which time they will weigh 100 lb ( 45 kg ) . |
2 | The debate will centre on alternative clauses : one outlawing all experiments on embryos from the moment of conception , the other ( the Warnock majority 's view ) allowing them for the first 14 days . |
3 | The Cuban Communists , who for the first six months of 1959 had made policy proclamations which were cautiously but unequivocally more radical than Castro 's , subsequently found that they were fast being outstripped by him in the proposal of anti-capitalist measures . |
4 | Naomi Sargant , who for the first eight years of Channel 4 as the Senior Commissioning Editor for Educational Programming , talked to Women about her experience of the television industry . |
5 | Well erm I 've just come off holiday and so I wo n't be entitled to none for the first four days . |
6 | If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters . |
7 | My mother had four children she had bring up , without anything for the first two years , how the hell she managed it , I do n't know ! |