Example sentences of "the first few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will already be feeling fitter , healthier , and be starting to shed the first few pounds of excess weight . |
| 2 | Those whose entitlement is established , however , will find that not only the first few pounds of some other form of income they have may be disregarded , but the value of a house they own or occupy is not counted as part of their income . |
| 3 | In fact , after the first few minutes of wriggling and giggling , he began to enjoy it . |
| 4 | There are even techniques for mirroring the other person 's non-verbal behaviours for the first few minutes of meeting them , and then testing whether rapport has been established by changing your visual behaviours to see whether the other person will reciprocate by mirroring yours . |
| 5 | The first few minutes of the film were somehow missing , but he watched it through to the end . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the first few minutes of their greetings , the real purpose of Nora 's trip was forgotten by them both . |
| 8 | A feeling of warm-up is definitely in the air ; a flexing of muscles that have not been stretched in public for some time makes up the first few minutes of Faust 's extraordinary set … and then all hell breaks loose ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You can not imagine what the first few minutes of that bombardment were like . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ( If it 's too long to do this right through , view the first few minutes without sound . ) |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | On the way home through Canada I wrote the first few chapters of a book about my views on the tour . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Most gliding clubs have a system of re-checking pilots during the first few hours of solo flying , but then pilots are left very much to their own devices to improve their soaring techniques . |
| 17 | John 's lamp light lasted for the first few hours of his entombment and from then on he was in total darkness . |
| 18 | Our inability to standardise the timing of the initial packed cell volume is unfortunate as large changes in plasma volume occur in the first few hours of life . |
| 19 | In the first few hours after the verdict , 60 people were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct . |
| 20 | Throughout the first few scenes of the play Antony is portrayed as being very subservient and devoted to Caesar . |
| 21 | Robert Stevenson checks the first few metres of each weaving when it is removed from the loom . |
| 22 | As he watched , the first few flakes of snow came swirling down . |
| 23 | And into the silence , sinuous and pin-clear , the first few notes of a flute concerto . |
| 24 | The first few pairs of somites that form do not persist ; they disappear and are incorporated into the head . |
| 25 | Let's briefly go through the first few generations of the main line of evolution in Figure 4 . |
| 26 | In the first building campaign , Kryštof Dientzenhofer built the W façade and the first few bays of the nave in 1702–11 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She ran through the first few pages of each of the paperbacks , her mouth falling open as she read . |
| 29 | Indeed , it is rather illuminating to discover that within the first few pages of her book — and before she has even introduced her own work — she peremptorily dismisses the idea that genius is akin to madness . |
| 30 | One common source of distrust of hermeneutics in social science is that the idea of ‘ meaning ’ is so various and elusive , as the first few pages of this chapter make all too plain . |