Example sentences of "the first five " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first five entries drawn after September 7 1991 to identify these two plants correctly will win £50 of National Garden Gift Tokens . |
| 2 | Certainly during the first five hundred feet or so the pilot should be aware of possible fields ahead . |
| 3 | Between April 1953 and March 1954 they produced the first five issues , meeting in Layton 's home , occasionally at Rosengarten 's , to discuss The Things That Matter — their latest poetry and material offered by others , not infrequently being led in song by Leonard on his ever-present guitar . |
| 4 | Billie Jean King played in the first five Federation Cup finals . |
| 5 | In other commercial sectors , rents are being slashed to find leaseholders , with the first five years of many office leases offered rent free . |
| 6 | ‘ It would be a 10-year lease , index-linked to inflation for the first five years and I would have to do all the repairs the brewery had n't done . ’ |
| 7 | A third of a million Frenchmen died in the first five months … |
| 8 | In King 's Lynn , Norfolk , 12 orthopaedic beds plus a small ward have closed and operating sessions are being reduced after a £238,000 overspend in the first five months of the financial year . |
| 9 | The proposal also included an offer to reduce the price of supplies in real terms over the first five years and a pledge that during the contract period prices would remain ‘ within the general movement of prices in the economy ’ . |
| 10 | Queen Mary 's Hospital at Sidcup has cancelled all waiting-list surgery for ‘ at least ’ five weeks after more patients than planned were treated in the first five months , producing a £205,000 overspend on top of £200,000 it has to find for under-funded pay awards and other pressures . |
| 11 | Tickets for the whole event are on sale , price £10.00 , from the box-office of the Empire Leicester Square , and we have pairs of free tickets for the first five readers to arrive at the cinema on Sunday morning bearing a copy of The Independent . |
| 12 | The Independent has five pairs of free tickets to offer for this stimulating event , available to the first five readers to present this page at the Watershed Box Office from 10am this morning . |
| 13 | The USSR won decisively against all their serious rivals , Yugoslavia , the US and England , in the first five rounds and only slackened at the end when the gold medals were assured . |
| 14 | For the first five months of his life , Christopher was happy , well-adjusted and a trifle fat . |
| 15 | Recruit Cosmos , once the centre of a political scandal , has through its finance affiliate been lending money to would-be buyers of its flats at only 0.6% annual interest for the first five years . |
| 16 | When the Israelites go out to gather it , each of them gathers exactly the right amount for himself and his family ; on the sixth day of the week a double portion is given and collected so that the sabbath rest can be properly kept ; on the sabbath , appropriately , no manna appears at all ; while any kept at the end of any of the first five days goes bad overnight , the half of the sixth day 's gathering put aside for the sabbath keeps perfectly fresh . |
| 17 | All the Jewish laws are derived from the first five books of the Old Testament , or what Jewish people refer to as the Torah , or the five books of Moses ; we believe that these laws were given by God to the Jewish people . |
| 18 | Dr John Bowlby was the author of a bestseller , Child Care And The Growth Of Love ( 1953 ) , which popularized the theory of Maternal Deprivation , the gist of which was — and is — that the first five years of a child 's life are crucial . |
| 19 | But nobody then dared question the magical properties of the first five years when Oedipal fantasies were supposed to be raging in the unconscious . |
| 20 | The first five correct entries each month will win £50 of HTA National Garden Gift Tokens . |
| 21 | The first five listed are sold by most seed companies . |
| 22 | Goals in the first five minutes by Dennis Greene and Keith Scott set the Buckinghamshire side on the path to victory , but they had to wait until the 68th minute before Simon Stapleton settled the issue . |
| 23 | SACHIN Tendulkar , Yorkshire 's first overseas signing , is likely to miss the first five matches of the season because he is contracted to play in Bombay . |
| 24 | On the way in we look at the first five tables — if we do n't spot anyone , if we do n't get told about anything happening , we politely disappear after 20 minutes or so . ’ |
| 25 | Company liquidation figures have been more than double the level of a year before , with about half the companies dying within the first five years . |
| 26 | The tittering started during the first five minutes of the piece , and grew . |
| 27 | The People 's Palace opened its doors and its Winter Gardens to a stupendous half a million visitors within the first five months . |
| 28 | The first five are in Latin , but Miller , realising his limitations , wrote in August 1763 , ‘ I have taken the liberty of writing to you in English , being informed that you can either read it yourself , or have some persons who can translate it for you ’ . |
| 29 | The reporter puts that little exchange into the first five paragraphs of his story . |
| 30 | They will be self-financing , since we aim to raise 20 billion by way of pollution taxes over the first five year of Government . |