Example sentences of "[prep] [art] first few [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He had his eyes closed , and for the first few moments Belinda kept hers open , so she could see in extreme close-up the blurred crescents of his dark lashes resting on the smoothly tanned skin of his cheeks .
2 For the first few years Blackpool 's trams represented the only practical example in the World , of electric tramcars running in crowded thoroughfares .
3 With Lindsey 's Corsair being the only one of its type in Europe , airshow organisers had to approach him if they wanted a Corsair in their flying display , and for the first few years John Allison and Lindsey flew all over Europe with the aircraft .
4 During the first few days people left their houses for fear of being bombed by Pippo , but quite soon he became part of our lives and we did n't bother about him any more .
5 IN the first few minutes Armagh could have opened the scoring when Eugene Mullan was forced to pull off a string of good saves .
6 However , in the first few years groups did not appear to consider fundraising a priority .
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