1.   For the first few minutes the conversation drifts from favorite television shows to pets and on to new toys at home.

2.   And all through my first few girlfriends I would never let them see me naked.

3.   And even though their lives have hardly changed after Chavez first few years in power, many people still love him.

4.   Abruptly moving from Glasgow to Nicaragua, the movie plunges you into the state of dazed bewilderment that George experiences in his first few days abroad.

5.   After the first few lean months, their business has been prosperous, she said.

6.   --Emotions in the first few weeks or month are often due to hormonal surges, not necessarily part of the identity struggle.

7.   For reasons such as maturity, a new love or a decision that God is not calling them, seminarians might leave in the first few years of training.

8.   Fortunately, while playing the first few games most people will pick up all they need to know.

9.   For the first few years most of what they planted died and most of what they cleared grew back.

10.   How they scribbled their names and phone numbers on their forearms those first few days in case they were swallowed up in a hole and killed.