Example sentences of "the first few [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rab , with his new moves , a much more attacking play — he shifted his chequers like a whirlwind — won the first few games in fine style . |
| 2 | I pulled out the compass , held it horizontally close to my eyes , let the needle settle onto north , looked that way and mapped the first few feet in my mind . |
| 3 | During the first few weeks in a Home everyone concerned with the resident , and of course the resident too , will be thinking about the best care for the person . |
| 4 | Tenderly , she laid the first few bundles in the pail and sat back on her heels , blackened fingers curled , like a housewife waiting for the stove to light . |
| 5 | If M and N are any two positions , then say fc(M)>fc(N) if either all entries in fc(M) are strictly positive , and fc(M) is shorter than fc(N) or fc(M) and fc(N) have the same length , and the first few entries in fc(M) and fc(N) are equal and the next entry of fc(M) is larger than that of fc(N) . |
| 6 | The first few days in Bavant were fairly quiet as far as the enemy activity was concerned , with a few mortar bombs coming over from time to time . |
| 7 | The first few days in a residential home can be very frightening for many elderly people . |
| 8 | The first few days in any organisation are all about issues like these . |
| 9 | However there is psycholinguistic evidence indicating that human listeners also have problems identifying the first few words in an utterance . |
| 10 | It is during the first few months in particular that these sorts of activities can affect the developing foetus , producing babies that may be premature , and with a low birth weight . |
| 11 | It is after the first few years in employment that the profiles diverge dramatically and again the male/female contrast is vivid . |
| 12 | Prince Charles argued that they should be brought up initially by Mabel Anderson , his childhood nanny , and then a governess employed to educate the boys for the first few years in the privacy of Kensington Palace . |
| 13 | In the first few years in a district the officer learns about his territory as thoroughly as possible . |