Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the first few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The Relieving Officer for East Greenwich , however , favoured giving relief to widows for the first few weeks after their husband 's death , but after that he believed some of the children should be taken into the workhouse , because he considered that an able-bodied widow should work . |
2 | Walnut was used for the bodies and necks during the first few years of production but later Gibson switched to mahogany as this proved to be a more stable material , with less material wastage during the timber selection procedure . |
3 | We acclimatise with shorter trips for the first few days , then split for free sailing , meeting up for a couple of days to brief for another long session of free sailing . |
4 | Our losses in the first few months of 1943 were rather harmful , and would have been very damaging to morale ; something happened about that time which affected me very deeply . |
5 | I intend to keep the fry in a number of these nets for the first few weeks of their lives and feed them on newly hatched brine shrimp . |
6 | Written entirely in two parts , the lower of which is made of standard accompanimental figures ( mostly Alberti bass ) , it is nevertheless somewhat more expansive and faintly more interesting than the ‘ Eckard ’ The following Corrente ( which demands a keyboard compass of F' to d'' ) , while made exclusively out of the rather mechanical formulas of the first few bars , at least generates plenty of energy with its leaps and crashing octaves . |
7 | On April 14 Kaunda told Radio Zambia that in view of Zambia 's experiences in the first few years after independence , when more than one party had operated , " the question of whether the multiparty system will solve Zambia 's problems is a yes-and-no situation which has to be considered very cautiously " . |
8 | It 's also packed with the mother 's antibodies against common things like flu , which help protect the baby from infections in the first few months of his life . |
9 | Most gliding clubs have a system of re-checking pilots during the first few hours of solo flying , but then pilots are left very much to their own devices to improve their soaring techniques . |
10 | In almost all investigations of any size , one investigator can be occupied full time taking statements during the first few days after the accident . |
11 | While there was disappointment that the Chancellor had not taken the opportunity to roll up tax relief for first time buyers into the first few years of a mortgage , the doubling of the stamp duty threshold has been widely welcomed . |
12 | The question of the birth rate was to be more crucial in the years after the Education Act , in the debates around the Royal Commission on Population , which reported in 1948–49 , but the existence of the commission itself from 1943 demonstrates public and official concern with such ideas in the first few years of the war . |
13 | She 'd lived without carpets for the first few weeks and it had been nearly a year before she 'd been able to ditch her old and undersized curtains . |
14 | Resistance to specific infectious diseases can be acquired in several ways ( p. 82 ) , and , of course , infants during the first few months of life are relatively unsusceptible to many infections because of transplacentally derived immunity . |
15 | Although Anker Simmons was one of the original quartet and chaired the first meeting , he does not figure greatly in the Club 's affairs after the first few months . |
16 | Bombings in the first few months of last year — among them attacks at Lurgan and Fivemiletown — accounted for part of the £100m bill . |
17 | In the same year , Percy Shelley and Edward Williams drowned when the Don Juan sank in the Bay of Spezia , and Clairmont cared for the widows in the first few weeks . |
18 | In his Mercedes he was stopped four times in the first few days . |
19 | There seems to be a readiness in the baby to react keenly to visual stimuli during the first few months of life . |
20 | ‘ Oh yes , there have n't been the spectacular rises of the first few years , but we could guarantee a growth figure which more than copes with inflation . |
21 | The way that this has happened is repeated in different ways in the first few verses of our reading : |
22 | Many children develop allergies in the first few weeks or months of life , and often these improve as the years go by . |
23 | ADOLESCENT SUB-FERTILITY ( OR SUB-FECUNDITY ) — A physiological condition of teenage girls during the first few years following menarche , when their fecundity has not yet reached that of the level of adult women . |
24 | There are even techniques for mirroring the other person 's non-verbal behaviours for the first few minutes of meeting them , and then testing whether rapport has been established by changing your visual behaviours to see whether the other person will reciprocate by mirroring yours . |
25 | Most Bangladeshi mothers breastfed their babies for the first few weeks , switching to either combination or bottle feeding after this period . |
26 | I obviously made some fundamental mistakes within the first few days of my move . |
27 | All these viral infections have the same symptoms in the first few days — a patient might have ‘ flu , measles , hepatitis — ye canna tell during the porodomal period' — he used the technical term for the period of incubation . |
28 | Prince Charles argued that they should be brought up initially by Mabel Anderson , his childhood nanny , and then a governess employed to educate the boys for the first few years in the privacy of Kensington Palace . |
29 | Their hosts for the first few days , the Lord of the Isles , Sir Alexander Macdonald , and his wife Jane , a relative of Boswell 's , waited on the shore at Armadale , a small , dirty , sandy horseshoe of a bay , to greet them . |
30 | Dr Runcie repeated his offer of a limited primacy , involving the limited powers exercised by the popes in the first few centuries of the Christian Church . |