Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] first few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some find their feet quickly ; but I find that some assistants need support for the first few weeks , and it 's up to me and Joan and Wendy to give it . ’ |
| 2 | It intends to use its contacts with architects , builders , joiners , electricians etc to provide a building and hopefully also assist in raising income for the first few years ' running costs . |
| 3 | This uneasy compromise was not a major difficulty during the first few years as the national economic problems of the early thirties , reductions in public expenditure and depressed employment conditions all led to severe restrictions on the development of adult education . |
| 4 | Parents , on duty in turn , kept the egg warm and brooded the tiny chick for the first few days after hatching . |
| 5 | A public road threads a delightful passage through woodlands in the company of river and loch for the first few miles , ending at a car park from which further progress is possible only by walking — and further progress should certainly be made . |
| 6 | In a careful review of the first few years after reorganisation , a group of academics from the London School of Economics assessed the performance of the new London local authorities ( Rhodes 1972 ) . |
| 7 | This makes it easier to lose weight in the first few weeks , at a rate which can be up to 4lb per week . |
| 8 | Do not do as I did and arrange to work only to find that the childminder changes her mind within the first few days . |
| 9 | The influential work of John Bowlby has led many people to believe that any kind of mother-child separation during the first few years of a child 's life should be avoided . |
| 10 | The notion that parents can exert a particularly profound influence during the first few years — an influence that will remain throughout life and can not be eradicated by subsequent experience-is certainly widespread . |
| 11 | The ideal is to leave the ground balanced on the main wheel , and to hold a constant attitude for the first few feet of the launch while the aircraft gains height and speed . |
| 12 | One consequence of the rise in private asset ownership among elderly people is that many of them do not suffer any drastic reduction of their ability to consume on retirement : indeed , tax changes in the 1970s that encouraged pension schemes to pay out some of their assets as a lump sum mean that many retirees experience an increase in their consumption propensity in the first few years of retirement . |
| 13 | Children who witness sexual intercourse in the first few years of their lives see it as a sort of ill-treatment , an assault by the man on the woman ; ‘ they view it that is in a sadistic sense ’ . |
| 14 | Although he may receive more help in the first few months than the widow usually does , he may find that his sudden change in life-style is a considerable shock . |
| 15 | To condemn the child in the first few days of its life , and engineer its death can only be a gross misjustice . |
| 16 | The bank held an internal inquiry during the first few months of 1988 , for which Mr Reed was questioned , but he was not shown the report , which detailed the late take-up of shares . |
| 17 | He had quite enjoyed that kind of jealousy for the first few months of their marriage . |
| 18 | They took the same tube for the first few stops . |
| 19 | Even if you do n't continue with breastfeeding after the first few days , giving your baby colostrum ( the fluid produced by the breasts immediately after the birth ) has major benefits and is obviously better than not breastfeeding at all . |
| 20 | The second part of this study will use a large sample of recent graduates to investigate the individual graduate 's choice to become a teacher or not and the incentive to remain in teaching or to leave the job within the first few years . |
| 21 | Imprinting usually takes place in the first few days after birth . |
| 22 | Traffic through the Mersey tunnels was down 4.9pc in the year ending in April but a spokesman said indications were that it had regained 3pc of that business in the first few months of this year . |
| 23 | They put me in an isolated pit for the first few weeks . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The CNAA could not establish boards for every subject component of degrees in education , and in the event for the first few years the Committee for Education , using a range of specialist panels in support , itself carried out the validation work . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Your main priority is to get to know the city as quickly as possible , so we 'll be acting mainly as back-up for the first few days . |
| 28 | It is , however absolutely essential to prohibit all growth of grass and weeds for a metre round each tree in the first few years and while this is fairly simple to achieve by spraying with something such as glyphsate or by using a weed suppressing mat , there is still a substantial area to cut . |
| 29 | A key development in the first few months of life is ‘ joint reference ’ : the ability of a young baby to follow mother 's eye-gaze in order that they can jointly experience the same event . |
| 30 | A report has been published which looks at the operation of the new Mental Illness Specific Grant in the first few months after its introduction in April this year . |