Example sentences of "[pron] for the first [num] " in BNC.

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1 The tigress suckles them for the first six months , by which time they will weigh 100 lb ( 45 kg ) .
2 The debate will centre on alternative clauses : one outlawing all experiments on embryos from the moment of conception , the other ( the Warnock majority 's view ) allowing them for the first 14 days .
3 The Cuban Communists , who for the first six months of 1959 had made policy proclamations which were cautiously but unequivocally more radical than Castro 's , subsequently found that they were fast being outstripped by him in the proposal of anti-capitalist measures .
4 Naomi Sargant , who for the first eight years of Channel 4 as the Senior Commissioning Editor for Educational Programming , talked to Women about her experience of the television industry .
5 Where were you for the first eight ?
6 Well erm I 've just come off holiday and so I wo n't be entitled to none for the first four days .
7 And that 's it for the first six thirty show of this week .
8 If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters .
9 My mother had four children she had bring up , without anything for the first two years , how the hell she managed it , I do n't know !
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