Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] first few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 2 | only for the first few days |
| 3 | Obviously for the first few days after I could n't sleep . |
| 4 | Some of our final year students who were soon to be ordained , feeling the need for some kind of support system , especially during the first few years of ministry , decided to create their own cells . |
| 5 | It is most frequently found in sexually active women from their late teens to early thirties and is particularly common in pregnancy , especially during the first few months . |
| 6 | According to s.6 , as amended by the FSA 1986 , the practice of price stabilisation ( ie. trading activities geared towards stabilising share prices , especially in the first few months of an issue ) , if done in conformity with the rules made under s.48 of the FSA 1986 , can take place despite the fact that such activities would ordinarily be in breach of the insider dealing prohibitions . |
| 7 | So , although the Bolsheviks did not start the inflationary process , they were unable to stop it either , despite their wish to do so in the first few months of Soviet rule . |
| 8 | Just for the first few seconds she was back in the days after Hugh 's desertion . |
| 9 | The current , although only slow , should be able to do this easily in the first few seconds before the crust becomes totally waterlogged and is still buoyant enough to counteract the weight of the bullet . |
| 10 | I wanted to just pop away over the first few for him to get his confidence . |
| 11 | Choose a sun protection factor of 15 or more for the first few days . |
| 12 | The clinical signs in very young animals , usually within the first few weeks of life , together with the finding of large numbers of the characteristic eggs or larvae in the faeces are suggestive of strongyloidiasis . |
| 13 | Transient UOS relaxations were clustered predominantly into the first few seconds of oesophageal distention consistent with the triggering of transient UOS relaxations reported by Kahrilas et al in adults . |
| 14 | Kirov listened attentively to the first few bars . |
| 15 | Toys mean little in the first few weeks — you are all your baby needs . |
| 16 | If the guitar does not play , or buzzes severely along the first few frets from the nut , slacken the rod slightly to remove the crown . |
| 17 | However , this pain commonly resolves spontaneously within the first few months of recovery . |
| 18 | In public perceptions the gap between Conservative unity and Labour unity narrowed sharply in the first few days of the campaign and again at the end , but actually increased very slightly in the third week . |
| 19 | Larger , ‘ executive ’ cars are poorer value to buy new , because their value drops so sharply in the first few years . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is funny , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , how reluctant I was to say anything like that here in the first few days , how instinctively I felt it might endanger the entire project , how everything might collapse around me the moment I said that . |
| 22 | Fortunately during the first few months of our marriage Bernard , how shall I put it , practised asceticism — I had no chance of getting pregnant , or very little , and after that he was converted to Marxism , and though we were at it all the time for years , he stood over me daily to make sure I ingested a contraceptive chemical . |
| 23 | Only a few , largely of the younger members , consider that at least for the first few years after an election , the House as a whole should keep a wary eye on the government and seek to support or influence its policy irrespective of the line taken by the official Opposition . |
| 24 | when you start learning a language you are constantly collecting new words , so even if you have a computer and intend to use it for producing a dictionary you may still wish to have your vocabulary in a more accessible form than on a computer disk , at least for the first few months . |
| 25 | And indeed for the first few weeks there is a manic response of getting up at the usual time and finding things to do , but which gradually subsides into grief and depression . |
| 26 | And there certainly had been a great deal of stress and tension — almost from the first few weeks following their wedding : Lady Nancy Wyndham 's total opposition to their marriage ; her own mother 's sudden untimely death , followed by her father 's long-drawn-out and eventually terminal illness ; the total immersion of Ross in his business affairs , and — the final catalyst — the affair between Ross and his personal assistant , Marissa Kenton . |
| 27 | I shall want a good start and be up there over the first few fences . |
| 28 | Only good thing was Dorigo ( apart from the first few minutes ) who played brill . |
| 29 | This is not to denigrate what the Six did achieve economically and politically during the first few years of the organisation . |