Example sentences of "in [art] first few " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in the first few years groups did not appear to consider fundraising a priority . |
| 2 | It is funny , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , how reluctant I was to say anything like that here in the first few days , how instinctively I felt it might endanger the entire project , how everything might collapse around me the moment I said that . |
| 3 | A report has been published which looks at the operation of the new Mental Illness Specific Grant in the first few months after its introduction in April this year . |
| 4 | Dr Runcie repeated his offer of a limited primacy , involving the limited powers exercised by the popes in the first few centuries of the Christian Church . |
| 5 | In public perceptions the gap between Conservative unity and Labour unity narrowed sharply in the first few days of the campaign and again at the end , but actually increased very slightly in the third week . |
| 6 | The newly-flooded margins will be attractive to the fish in the first few days , until the sudden influx of size ten waders make them wary . |
| 7 | In the first few weeks they treated his wife nicely . |
| 8 | Since the bombing raids began over Iraq , Britons have flocked to join the army ( inquiries in London have quintupled ) ; to give blood ( in Plymouth alone , more than 1,600 people volunteered in the first few days , and 110,000 followed suit across the country ) ; and to say their prayers ( Winchester Cathedral reported that the congregation for Matins last Sunday was up by a half on the usual number ) . |
| 9 | In the first few days of the revolt the Kurds ' peshmerga guerrillas ousted the army , secret police and Baath Party — the three pillars of Mr Hussein 's regime — from most of Iraqi Kurdistan , including the oil city of Kirkuk . |
| 10 | ( In the first few , more romantic months after her return she had shared these with Nigel . ) |
| 11 | The organisation expects that , in the first few years , half the visitors will come from France . |
| 12 | In the first few years of the informal concordat under the RAC , there appears to have been a tacit agreement that in Cambridgeshire the WEA attempted to provide few courses , largely it is thought because of its financial problems . |
| 13 | the was posted to France and Belgium as part of the British Expedition Force , in the first few months of the outbreak of the war in 1939 , and he realised then that the British Army was not nearly professional enough , compared with the German Army , and he noticed that many of the British Commanding Officers continued to treat the waging of war as some kind of game . |
| 14 | Lead levels from a system with lead piping are much higher in the first few pints that come from a tap that has been left turned off than after the water has run for a few minutes , as this flushes out much of the dissolved lead . |
| 15 | In the more severe cases of mental handicap , there are various specific causes , such as the infection of the foetus in the womb , a disease in the parent , or a disease or infection in the first few days of life . |
| 16 | An infection in a baby in the first few weeks of life can cause mental handicap , especially if the baby is premature . |
| 17 | To condemn the child in the first few days of its life , and engineer its death can only be a gross misjustice . |
| 18 | The main aim is to catch the interest of the reader in the first few phrases . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Outside , the blackbirds scolded and the sound of children playing on the green , glorying in the first few outdoor games of spring , could be faintly heard . |
| 21 | State socialism has not been very successful in transferring technology between countries , and has brought its own kind of exploitation ( as the Yugoslavs discovered in the first few years after the war ) . |
| 22 | The current , although only slow , should be able to do this easily in the first few seconds before the crust becomes totally waterlogged and is still buoyant enough to counteract the weight of the bullet . |
| 23 | In many cases the annual crops planted in the first few years are rapidly being replaced by pasture which itself is frequently proving to be uneconomic and environmentally detrimental . |
| 24 | Knocked out of Europe in the first few rounds , most Scottish footballers are readily available for mid-week court cases , and can not draw on Jimmy Johnstone 's range of excuses . |
| 25 | In the first few years at Rangers , he was sent off for striking five different opponents . |
| 26 | The scholar , Hector Boece , first Principal of Aberdeen University , writing about Ayrshire in the first few years of the 16th century , observed that , , another indication of the age of the legend . |
| 27 | In the first few years of the 19th century , the manufacture of wooden snuff boxes — sneeshin' mulls , as they were known — began in Ayrshire in Auchinleck , Ochiltree and Cumnock . |
| 28 | So , although the Bolsheviks did not start the inflationary process , they were unable to stop it either , despite their wish to do so in the first few months of Soviet rule . |
| 29 | In his Mercedes he was stopped four times in the first few days . |
| 30 | In the first few months of independence the Poles came to realise that the lower reaches of the Vistula waterway — their economic lifeline to the coast — had in fact been badly neglected by the Germans . |