Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] first [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should make sure that you are adequately covered from the start , because the likelihood of a dog running away from home is probably greatest during the first few months of ownership . |
| 2 | Sabrina opened the top file and leafed through the first few invoices . |
| 3 | A single budded standard , or a double where one has failed , can look distinctly lop-sided for the first few years until it has had time to develop — this is the sort of stuff you have to watch out for in the cheap ‘ end of season nursery clearance sales ’ and street markets . |
| 4 | My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success . |
| 5 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 6 | The ventral arm plates are axe shaped ; thin proximally but flaring out with a wide convex distal edge and only contiguous on the first few arm segments . |
| 7 | The top lifts at Cairngorm were opened on Friday 23 November with 300–400 earlybirds turning up on each of the first few days . |
| 8 | Fees for the session 1992/93 will be approximately £195 for the day classes and £171 for evening classes payable during the first few weeks of the course . |
| 9 | Fees for the session 1992/93 will be approximately £98 — payable during the first few weeks of the course . |
| 10 | ‘ The whole experience has been a lot of fun and the crew have been fantastic , especially in the very beginning because I was nervous for the first few days . |
| 11 | I was nervous for the first few missions — but once you 'd done it you could cope . |
| 12 | It was arranged that Hetty would stay on in the shop for a while , and Sarah would work from ten o'clock until three for the first few weeks . |
| 13 | I was fine for the first few pages . |
| 14 | I thing recently the bus service has got dreadful since they brought in er private buses to their local areas , it was good for the first few months , but when they find out that its not paying at all , they take them off , they do n't tell you , the bus just disappears so your left with the usual one that used to be on . |
| 15 | In the first division Oxford United were looking good in the first half thanks to a goal from defender Anton Rogan … |
| 16 | More bird song : willow warbler , wren , robin — all in the first few minutes . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Recovery after a stroke is greatest in the first few days and weeks — but it does n't stop there . |
| 19 | Patsy was a sickly child , growing very little in the first few years of his life . |
| 20 | It was a fact that quite easily became disheartening during the first few months of captivity . |
| 21 | You will probably find that you perform very badly and feel dreadful for the first few minutes . |
| 22 | RIVER WEAVER : Usually a good starter and busy for the first few days . |
| 23 | This is especially important during the first few weeks of pregnancy when you might not even know you are pregnant . |
| 24 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 25 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 26 | He attached exteme , extreme importance to their visiting in the first few years . |
| 27 | One of the first such histories was written by the French writer and philosopher Montesquieu in the middle of the eighteenth century under the title The Spirit of the Laws . |
| 28 | One of the first such dogs was Mrs Hall 's Stromhall Torrey CH CDex UDex TD . |
| 29 | The 90-second ad , which breaks on January 29 , is one of the first such reciprocal marketing exercises between a commercial organisation and a charity . |
| 30 | One lawyer cited one of the first such cases to be heard in Scotland : ‘ At one point the tribunal took the case by the scruff of the neck and told the claimants to put in their claim within 14 days and gave the other side the same amount of time for their defences . |