Example sentences of "[num ord] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1915 he had written his book Imperialism and World Economy , and the first few chapters of The Economics is taken up with a summary restatement of that work , particularly in the light of German experience during the 1914–18 war . |
| 2 | On the way home through Canada I wrote the first few chapters of a book about my views on the tour . |
| 3 | This is not to say , however , that in certain applications , the use of ‘ normal ’ in-rack sprinkler systems is not perfectly satisfactory where the arrangement of sprinklers can be such that a number of them can be brought in early against the fire , or where the nature of the goods stored is such that flames are unlikely to damage them within the first few moments of fire development . |
| 4 | In the first building campaign , Kryštof Dientzenhofer built the W façade and the first few bays of the nave in 1702–11 . |
| 5 | A Thames barge has no keel and is afloat in the first few inches of shoal water . |
| 6 | There was a lot of movement under those first few inches of surface water . |
| 7 | She knew hat she would be flaunted before the whole of Northumberland if her mother had her way , so , although aware that good form dictated that she should dress down in the country , she took a deep breath and faced the fact that , for their first few outings at least , she would have to wear what Nora called her ‘ dressy ’ clothes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | John 's lamp light lasted for the first few hours of his entombment and from then on he was in total darkness . |
| 10 | Our inability to standardise the timing of the initial packed cell volume is unfortunate as large changes in plasma volume occur in the first few hours of life . |
| 11 | In our first few hours of membership we are highly attuned to some of the assumptions . |
| 12 | In your first few hours in a new place , while you 're still dazed , before you can even really believe you 've arrived , you see it more vividly and more clearly than you ever will again . |
| 13 | Your body is most amenable to replenishing muscle glycogen in those first few hours after exercising . |
| 14 | In the first few hours after the verdict , 60 people were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct . |
| 15 | Throughout the first few scenes of the play Antony is portrayed as being very subservient and devoted to Caesar . |
| 16 | This is how they were in the first few games of the season . |
| 17 | Rab , with his new moves , a much more attacking play — he shifted his chequers like a whirlwind — won the first few games in fine style . |
| 18 | Let's briefly go through the first few generations of the main line of evolution in Figure 4 . |
| 19 | The first few pairs of somites that form do not persist ; they disappear and are incorporated into the head . |
| 20 | The first few stages of this process are summarised in Table 2 , where C * ; represents consumption of home-produced goods and the subscripts refer to time periods . |
| 21 | The first few stages of the multiplier process . |
| 22 | Most certainly , the Conservatives relied upon a theme song which combined Al Jolson 's hit song ‘ Sonny Boy ’ with the dependability of Baldwin , the first few lines of which ran as follows : |
| 23 | The light was bad but Peter deciphered the first few lines of the left-hand page . |
| 24 | The first few lines of the instruction section are quoted below for illustration : |
| 25 | When the studio manager asked him to say something to check the microphone levels , he recited the first few lines of The Wreck of the Deutschland with appropriate gestures . |
| 26 | On the back were the first few lines of a sketch for another painting , then scrawled across the lower half of the untreated canvas were some illegible words with numbers beside them , added up at the bottom , by the stretcher . |
| 27 | THIS production is the British premiere of a 17th Century work by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega , but any assumptions we may have that it will be a genteel period piece are dispelled with the first few lines of dialogue . |
| 28 | We might be given the first few pages to be going on with , and as we went along more pages would arrive . |
| 29 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
| 30 | She ran through the first few pages of each of the paperbacks , her mouth falling open as she read . |