Example sentences of "fell [prep] the first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Prices fell throughout the first half of 1990 due largely to the anticipated failure of the Association of Tin Producing Countries ( ATPC ) to attain by December 1990 its target of cutting by 6,000 tonnes its world stockpile , reported in February to have totalled 43,200 tonnes . |
| 2 | Net profits at Philips Electronics fell in the first quarter by 36% to 103m guilders ( $16m ) from 162m guilders in the same period of 1992 . |
| 3 | Haynes fell to the first ball of West Indies ' reply , but the local pair of Lara and Simmons added 78 before the former fell to Kuiper . |
| 4 | Lynch , who fell at the first fence on his only other Grand National ride in 1981 , had looked likely to miss the race after Auntie Dot , one of his regular mounts , had been promised to Mark Dwyer , who finished third on her in last year 's race . |
| 5 | In 1983 the jockey would found the Bob Champion Cancer Trust , and four years later Aldaniti himself ( who fell at the first fence in the 1982 National ) would play his part in the Trust 's fund-raising activities by undertaking a 250-mile charity walk from London to Liverpool , arriving at the course to massive acclaim on the day of the Grand National : among the riders who partnered the 1981 hero on his trek was the Princess Royal . |