Example sentences of "few [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British commander , Brigadier Andrew Cumming , 45 , said : ‘ This is a great boost for morale as we enter the last few furlongs of the first Operation Grapple tour . ’ |
| 2 | The McCaw wit is as sharp as his memory and , to nobody 's surprise , George was asked to say a few words at the first of many parties to mark Lurgan 's Centenary . |
| 3 | There are few survivors of the first Holocaust because the Turks tried to kill them all and because age has now claimed most of the rest . |
| 4 | A second example involves an argument by means of which the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahé claimed to have refuted the Copernican theory a few decades after the first publication of that theory . |
| 5 | Few countries outside the First World have transferable currencies . |
| 6 | Few stations of the first generation survived the vast increase of railway traffic , but some did and they are well worth seeing Railways added a vast amount of detail to the English landscape , besides manipulating it at times on a large scale . |
| 7 | Michael Cohen also plans a major exhibition — 15 or 20 Nanking pieces , silver bars from the Dutch bullion ship Bredenhof , auctioned in 1986 , anything he can get from Vung Tau and , he hopes , a few pieces from the first Hatcher junk , which are the earliest of them all . |
| 8 | A trip to the blood donors may seem like a strange topic to write about in a staff magazine but it is one that took my mind back a few years to the first time my mum persuaded me to go . |
| 9 | On the second visit , a few days after the first , the Japanese used natives in their ravages of the town , much to the disgust of local tribes . |
| 10 | He was less prominent in the action than William Craig and he felt sufficiently distanced from it to be able to absent himself for a few days in the first week of the strike when he went to Canada to attend a funeral . |
| 11 | United have shown signs of nerves in the last few weeks as the First Division title race approaches its climax . |
| 12 | A few suggestions for the first line : |
| 13 | It was but a few yards across the first field that he was attacked by three footpads . |
| 14 | ‘ We posed them quite a few threats in the first half , ’ said Graham Taylor , while conceding the second belonged to Liverpool . |
| 15 | If you change the colours every few rows on the first part of the ‘ turn ’ and reverse the colours on the second part , you get a circular change of colour which is quite marvellous — worth the effort of sewing in the ends ! |
| 16 | Give yourself a few lessons at the first opportunity . |