Example sentences of "for the first three [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We bought it , along with 60 acres , and opened a farm shop for the first three or four years , to sell our surplus . |
| 2 | Unlike baby goslings which lock on to the first moving object in sight , the newborn baby will be relatively undiscriminating about who tends his needs for the first three or four months of life . |
| 3 | For the first three or four days after the Residency had been abandoned a number of the ladies had been employed in making cartridges ; now , because of the shortage of lead for the moulds , the job had been left to Lucy , who had become extraordinarily skilful . |
| 4 | It might go well for the first three or four months , and then all of a sudden we might have a lapse in a few months , |
| 5 | Yeah well , you see , we found that for the first three or four years now they 've gradually dropped off a bit , but they did used to , I mean they still come , but it |
| 6 | The Conservatives were to rule for thirteen years , with Churchill as Prime Minister for the first three and a half . |