Example sentences of "[num ord] few [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( ‘ lt is normal to feel self-conscious and conspicuous on your first few times in the field ; do not let this distract you from the Subject . ’ ) |
| 4 | I pulled out the compass , held it horizontally close to my eyes , let the needle settle onto north , looked that way and mapped the first few feet in my mind . |
| 5 | The media are by nature deferential to Prime Ministers , as the reception granted to John Major in his first few weeks in power showed . |
| 6 | During the first few weeks in a Home everyone concerned with the resident , and of course the resident too , will be thinking about the best care for the person . |
| 7 | It was a place that Jed had found by chance during his first few weeks in Adam 's Creek . |
| 8 | In the fourth quarter of 1992 , the economy grew at an annual rate of 4.7% , which gave a roseate glow to Bill Clinton 's first few weeks in office but always looked too good to last . |
| 9 | Even period furniture is available through this means — we furnished our first few places in ‘ early poverty ’ . |
| 10 | If M and N are any two positions , then say fc(M)>fc(N) if either all entries in fc(M) are strictly positive , and fc(M) is shorter than fc(N) or fc(M) and fc(N) have the same length , and the first few entries in fc(M) and fc(N) are equal and the next entry of fc(M) is larger than that of fc(N) . |
| 11 | However there is psycholinguistic evidence indicating that human listeners also have problems identifying the first few words in an utterance . |
| 12 | But it is feared mementoes from his first few months in Italy , together with treasured personal belongings may have been snatched . |
| 13 | It is during the first few months in particular that these sorts of activities can affect the developing foetus , producing babies that may be premature , and with a low birth weight . |
| 14 | They live their first few months in the river , then migrate downstream to the sea ; they spend two or three years in feeding and growing out at sea , during which they cover thousands of miles ; and when mature , they migrate back to exactly the same river , and same tributary , as they were born in . |
| 15 | Robert , at a loss , went on a drinking spree in which he spent most of the savings he had accumulated during his first few months in the new country . |
| 16 | Tenderly , she laid the first few bundles in the pail and sat back on her heels , blackened fingers curled , like a housewife waiting for the stove to light . |
| 17 | In my first few years in the London activist network I was several times courted ( it seems the only appropriate word ) to join currently all-male organizations as a token lesbian but none of them offered , alongside the assumption that this would be a privileged or welcome position , the incentive that Switchboard did : the callers . |
| 18 | On the whole , those first few years in North Cornwall were very happy times for me . |
| 19 | His party , though divided over Macedonia and the economy , is entitled to claim that its record includes nothing as bad as the Socialists ' foolish first few years in power in the 1980s . |
| 20 | It is after the first few years in employment that the profiles diverge dramatically and again the male/female contrast is vivid . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In the first few years in a district the officer learns about his territory as thoroughly as possible . |
| 23 | In my first few years in Parliament , the building industry experienced a tremendous downturn in its work load and was worried about its future . |
| 24 | The first few days in Bavant were fairly quiet as far as the enemy activity was concerned , with a few mortar bombs coming over from time to time . |
| 25 | Recently Mrs Thatcher , working on her memoirs , was trying to reconstruct her first few days in Downing Street in 1979 . |
| 26 | The first few days in a residential home can be very frightening for many elderly people . |
| 27 | She had refused to be parted from it , and leniency had been shown during her first few days in new surroundings . |
| 28 | The first few days in any organisation are all about issues like these . |
| 29 | During my first few days in the refuge , I feel myself descend into depression . |
| 30 | I must admit that my first few days in my new home were quite strange and a little frightening . |