Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [art] first few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Bombings in the first few months of last year — among them attacks at Lurgan and Fivemiletown — accounted for part of the £100m bill . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In his Mercedes he was stopped four times in the first few days . |
| 8 | The way that this has happened is repeated in different ways in the first few verses of our reading : |
| 9 | Many children develop allergies in the first few weeks or months of life , and often these improve as the years go by . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ’ Here this approach will be explored by investigating one particularly appropriate episode in the social history of the Second World War — the evacuation of schoolchildren in the first few months after September 1939 . |