Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] few [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just for the first few seconds she was back in the days after Hugh 's desertion . |
| 2 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 3 | For the first few days we kept the family shut into the cow-shed , to protect them from the cats ; but I really think that if any cat had had the temerity to put in an attack , the hen would have chased it half-way to Gloucester . |
| 4 | ‘ For the first few days they were all a bit subdued , ’ Bob said . |
| 5 | Well for the first few days I found enough energy to take an occasional dip in the pool and play a leisurely game of bowls . |
| 6 | The teachers were very helpful and caring , and for the first few days I thought I was getting on quite well with my new classmates . |
| 7 | For the first few weeks their existence was bedraggled and formless . |
| 8 | For the first few weeks I was seldom off the toilet bowl myself . |
| 9 | For the first few weeks I enjoyed being able to go out at the weekends , to buy trendy clothes and other things that I did not really need or appreciate . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For the first few years they were happy together . |
| 12 | For the first few years I rested my chin on the concrete wall separating the spectators from the players and saw many wondrous things . |
| 13 | For the first few years I romped to cover up the new loneliness . |
| 14 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | For the first few months I was just having it now and again and then I was having a bit more . |
| 17 | Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face . |
| 18 | For the first few months she trembled at the thought of performing an official engagement on her own . |
| 19 | For the past few hours she had been too busy to think of her own problem . |
| 20 | For the past few minutes she had not really been paying much attention to the direction and she looked round worriedly . |
| 21 | For the past few months it 's been more or less constantly at the limit — the £300,000 cheque put it unacceptably over . " |
| 22 | For the past few months my husband , who 's 43 and a smoker , has been getting a sharp pain in the pit of his stomach , which he 's been ‘ curing ’ with a glass of milk . |
| 23 | She had established the fact that the real Delia Forbes was in Australia and that for the past few weeks someone else had been using her name and address ; because of her desperate desire to help Barney she had leapt to conclusions which could be hopelessly wide of the mark . |
| 24 | ‘ For the past few years I have built my life around rugby and I am happy to go on doing that until I ca n't go any further in the game ’ , he said . |
| 25 | For the past few years he has been joined in aspects of his research and conservation work by Dr Jane O'Sullivan , an agricultural scientist with an interest in the relationship between humanity and the natural world . |
| 26 | For the past few days he had brought security into her child 's world of distorted perspectives and half comprehended fears . |
| 27 | But for the past few days there had been continuous rain , and the forecast was for more bad weather to come . |
| 28 | For the last few hours he had been thinking about James and Kate and the rest of the Mollands , the Salpertons and the Redburns ; and it would not have shocked him if any or all of them who were still alive had turned up unannounced at Number 29 . |
| 29 | Until the recent arrival of Joanna Lumley , the only thing Lovejoy was likely to leap into was his open-topped Morris Minor , but for the last few episodes he 's been gleefully doing more bedding than bidding . |
| 30 | It was near the end of August , and for the last few days it had been like high summer . |