Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [art] first few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 2 | The top lifts at Cairngorm were opened on Friday 23 November with 300–400 earlybirds turning up on each of the first few days . |
| 3 | More bird song : willow warbler , wren , robin — all in the first few minutes . |
| 4 | Newson and Newson ( 1.3 ) suggest that it is only in this century that questions about how to bring up children have been widely discussed ; hitherto the niceties of different child-rearing philosophies were set aside in the face of a more fundamental dilemma , whether children would survive at all beyond the first few years . |
| 5 | Patsy was a sickly child , growing very little in the first few years of his life . |