Example sentences of "for [art] [adj] few [noun pl] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For the first few weeks I was seldom off the toilet bowl myself . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For the first few years I rested my chin on the concrete wall separating the spectators from the players and saw many wondrous things . |
| 6 | For the first few years I romped to cover up the new loneliness . |
| 7 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 8 | For the first few months I was just having it now and again and then I was having a bit more . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ For the last few months I 've really been feeling together , an integrated personality for the first time since my breakdown . |
| 12 | For the last few years I have sat on the sidelines watching bolt-protected climbing mushrooming throughout the USA , Europe and , not least , Britain : in quarries , but also , let's be completely truthful , on natural crags . |
| 13 | But it turned out to be an endless task and , as a result , for the last few years I 've been learning phrasings from all kinds of foreign instruments . |
| 14 | Every August or early September for the last few years I have been lucky enough to receive a present of ripe mulberries from a magnificent old tree in the garden of Rainham Hall in Essex . |
| 15 | For the next few minutes I had to put up with Sid 's reminiscences about how much worse it had been during the campaign in North Africa . |
| 16 | For the next few days I was horribly inactive , gripped by a lethargy that I could not for the life of me understand . |
| 17 | For the next few months I shall be writing about the various accessories that are available for Silver punchcard machines . |
| 18 | For the next few weeks I reported my unimportant news to the office . |
| 19 | For the next few weeks I thought of little else , and planned to read music there . |
| 20 | For the next few years I threw myself into a whirlwind of activities — involving myself in a Women 's Aid refuge , women 's centres , campaigns , demonstrations and conferences . |