Example sentences of "first few [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way home through Canada I wrote the first few chapters of a book about my views on the tour . |
| 2 | In 1915 he had written his book Imperialism and World Economy , and the first few chapters of The Economics is taken up with a summary restatement of that work , particularly in the light of German experience during the 1914–18 war . |
| 3 | In the first building campaign , Kryštof Dientzenhofer built the W façade and the first few bays of the nave in 1702–11 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the first few hours after the verdict , 60 people were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct . |
| 6 | Throughout the first few scenes of the play Antony is portrayed as being very subservient and devoted to Caesar . |
| 7 | This is how they were in the first few games of the season . |
| 8 | Let's briefly go through the first few generations of the main line of evolution in Figure 4 . |
| 9 | The first few stages of the multiplier process . |
| 10 | On the back were the first few lines of a sketch for another painting , then scrawled across the lower half of the untreated canvas were some illegible words with numbers beside them , added up at the bottom , by the stretcher . |
| 11 | The light was bad but Peter deciphered the first few lines of the left-hand page . |
| 12 | The first few lines of the instruction section are quoted below for illustration : |
| 13 | When the studio manager asked him to say something to check the microphone levels , he recited the first few lines of The Wreck of the Deutschland with appropriate gestures . |
| 14 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
| 15 | And into the silence , sinuous and pin-clear , the first few notes of a flute concerto . |
| 16 | On Monday the first few members of the trust met to get it underway . |
| 17 | It 's still interesting , but not like those first few times outside the States when I 'd go sightseeing — y'know , checking everything out . |
| 18 | ( ‘ 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 . ’ ) |
| 19 | The only aspect of the sound I 'd find fault with is a common concern with these pickups : the first few milliseconds of the note . |
| 20 | The ideal is to leave the ground balanced on the main wheel , and to hold a constant attitude for the first few feet of the launch while the aircraft gains height and speed . |
| 21 | Baillie Scott was the progenitor of the American open plan and the most innovative interior decorator the first few decades of the twentieth century ever saw . |
| 22 | The first few minutes of the film were somehow missing , but he watched it through to the end . |
| 23 | And Cambridge almost wrapped up the game in the first few minutes of the second half but were denied by Oldham goalkeeper John Keeley , who pulled off an excellent save to push away a curling , 20-yard Chris Leadbetter free-kick , then fingertipped a header from Mick Heathcote on to the crossbar . |
| 24 | As it was , the first few minutes of the talk was written by Intel 's legal department cautioning that patent applications covered the material about to be discussed . |
| 25 | Anyone selling aluminium step ladders outside the Belfry could have made a fortune because after the first few minutes of the match , newcomers realised they could n't see the action on a flat course , unsympathetic to any onlooker less than six feet in height . |
| 26 | She could only see the first few rows beyond the footlights , but knowing they were there was enough . |
| 27 | You probably want to use the first few rows of the spreadsheet for a general title plus notes to yourself about the date of creation and date of most recent revision so enter the headings you want in row 9 of the spreadsheet using short labels but ones that you will find meaningful in the reports you will want to create later on . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Fees for the session 1992/93 will be approximately £98 — payable during the first few weeks of the course . |