Sentence examples for first few sentences from inspiring English sources

I barely listened past the first few sentences.

I quickly learned to recognise the warning light, which flashed within the first few sentences.

(The novel's most enjoyable meta-­moment comes when Marlowe, for reasons that cannot be revealed here, quotes the first few sentences of "Lolita").

The best way to get on a buyer's radar, she says, is to grab their attention with the first few sentences.

They also tend to miss stories that cite a company but do not mention it in the headline or first few sentences.

But, on reading the first few sentences of Kathryn Schulz's article about them, understanding what I was in for and wishing to avoid it at all costs . . .

First, those few sentences visible in the card sure make it seem like the whole thing was Perry's fault — because, hey, she reached out to apologize first!

The public portion of this review of "Manhattan Madcaps of 1924" is forthcoming, but first a few sentences addressed to an audience of one: the librettist, Jerzy Turnpike.

Whenever you create a piece of content, show your value in the first few seconds or sentences.

The video above explains that new inmates generally are locked up for the first few months of their sentences before being allowed further freedoms.

I first assumed that the few sentences that follow this describe how to make the distinction but I am not sure of that.