Example sentences of "my [num ord] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 During my first few days in the refuge , I feel myself descend into depression .
2 I must admit that my first few days in my new home were quite strange and a little frightening .
3 When we signed the Report , on 29 January 1970 , I was in my first few weeks of a sabbatical term at Merton College , Oxford , and in need of a short rest from the work and vocabulary of education .
4 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 .
5 In my first few years in Parliament , the building industry experienced a tremendous downturn in its work load and was worried about its future .
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