Example sentences of "first few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owners have to be especially vigilant in the first few moments when the dogs are brought back together , and while they settle down to rest . |
| 2 | After the first few dates when he had kissed and cuddled her and only touched her breasts through her blouse , he had started slipping his hand inside . |
| 3 | In the first few hours following fertilisation , the embryo is not particularly tolerant of high temperatures but , by the next day , its tolerance appears somehow to have increased . |
| 4 | Most complications occurred with the first few procedures when the technique was being developed . |
| 5 | In the first few lines there pervades a sense of darkness as the train is on the brink of her voyage . |
| 6 | The tackle he made in the first few minutes when Giggs was straight through on Beeny must be enough to get him Young Player of the Year . |
| 7 | For the first few minutes outside , I used the torch , until the blackness behind the dunes turned to a deep red . |
| 8 | The first few weeks soon sorted that out . |
| 9 | The workplace , or place of study , exerts its own pressures on you and the fear of failure in those first few weeks just adds to your sense of isolation . |
| 10 | The first few weeks always included a number of experiences designed to undo at least some of the damage done to sensible language learning by our schools and universities . |
| 11 | If those on the Opposition Front Bench are right and there is an election on a certain day in April , the Government are right not to allow many hours of debate on the first few clauses so that subsequent clauses are rushed through without sufficient consideration . |
| 12 | Ten days were needed on the first few clauses alone . |
| 13 | In the first few months when I came out of the Navy I 'd tried my hand at a couple of things , and then my mother phoned me up one day and said there 's this job going at Drogo . |
| 14 | In the first few months more than 3,000 pounds was raised . |
| 15 | ADOLESCENT SUB-FERTILITY ( OR SUB-FECUNDITY ) — A physiological condition of teenage girls during the first few years following menarche , when their fecundity has not yet reached that of the level of adult women . |
| 16 | For the first few trips outside , you should plan only to go a short way , so that the patient can get used to the distracting sights and sounds . |
| 17 | What happens during the first few days when a resident comes to live in a Home ? |
| 18 | I 'm in the easy stage , the first few days when you just sleep and eat , but quite soon I 'll be in the hell of denial , Mr Breakspear . ’ |
| 19 | Almost without being aware of it I 'd progressed from the hesitancy of my first few days there to a strong positive desire to go down to the starting gate : any starting gate , anywhere . |
| 20 | What happened whilst you were on holiday after that first few days off , the guy rang me up and said , hey some of your staff have been down er say saying we 've got an urgent service that you can have in two hours . |
| 21 | ‘ No diet is easy and I found the first few days hard , but by the end of the first week my skin became clearer , my nails grew stronger and my hair was healthy and shining . |