Example sentences of "for [art] first [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The teachers were very helpful and caring , and for the first few days I thought I was getting on quite well with my new classmates . |
| 32 | For the first few days , Dawn would pull at the jesses with her beak every ten minutes or so . |
| 33 | Throughout the field investigation there will obviously be exchanges of information between the engineering , operational , flight recorder and pathological investigators , and for the first few days at least there will be regular meetings for mutual consultation at the end of each day 's work . |
| 34 | ‘ Your main priority is to get to know the city as quickly as possible , so we 'll be acting mainly as back-up for the first few days . |
| 35 | Parents , on duty in turn , kept the egg warm and brooded the tiny chick for the first few days after hatching . |
| 36 | Despite the dubious seaworthiness of our ship , for the first few days of the storm my sense of danger was eclipsed by the exhilaration of at last thundering in the right direction . |
| 37 | For the first few days , they had been calm and relaxed . |
| 38 | Their hosts for the first few days , the Lord of the Isles , Sir Alexander Macdonald , and his wife Jane , a relative of Boswell 's , waited on the shore at Armadale , a small , dirty , sandy horseshoe of a bay , to greet them . |
| 39 | We acclimatise with shorter trips for the first few days , then split for free sailing , meeting up for a couple of days to brief for another long session of free sailing . |
| 40 | Ideally , you should use factors 12 to 15 for the first few days , while your skin 's natural defences are being activated ( the body produces more pigment cells , or melanin , and skin begins to thicken , which can take up to 48 hours to start becoming effective ) . |
| 41 | For the first few days the hands and feet become too sore to practise with , but in time they become sufficiently conditioned to withstand the constant impact and calluses begin to develop in the key areas . |
| 42 | My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success . |
| 43 | Try and keep them dry , and take the painkillers we 'll give you for the first few days . |
| 44 | Obviously for the first few days after I could n't sleep . |
| 45 | RIVER RIBBLE : High levels may cause a problem for the first few days . |
| 46 | RIVER WEAVER : Usually a good starter and busy for the first few days . |
| 47 | ‘ For the first few days they were all a bit subdued , ’ Bob said . |
| 48 | Widespread ‘ light nights ’ were observed over Eurasia for the first few nights after the Tunguska event . |
| 49 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 50 | For the first few weeks the cast used the bedrooms as dressing rooms . |
| 51 | Although the night-time itching has been put down to the nocturnal habits of the mite , it is interesting that for the first few weeks of infestation , when the mites are presumably just as active , there are often no symptoms at all . |
| 52 | Although weak , the baby was basically healthy , but she had to be kept in intensive care for the first few weeks . |
| 53 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |
| 54 | Some find their feet quickly ; but I find that some assistants need support for the first few weeks , and it 's up to me and Joan and Wendy to give it . ’ |
| 55 | At least , this is how Mary , Freda and I felt for the first few weeks . |
| 56 | A sympathetic doctor may help and so will friends and family ready to give support and put up with unreasonable behaviour for the first few weeks or more . |
| 57 | For the first few weeks their existence was bedraggled and formless . |
| 58 | I would n't go shopping for the first few weeks . |
| 59 | Most Bangladeshi mothers breastfed their babies for the first few weeks , switching to either combination or bottle feeding after this period . |
| 60 | For the first few weeks of term this was a problem . |