Example sentences of "from first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The festive period this year is a good time for seeking out the various shapes or figures in the Moon , for its phase grows ( waxes ) from first quarter on 23 December to full on 30 December . |
| 2 | Paul Davies-Hale and Dave Long are giving it a miss , but Brace forecasts a good run from first reserve Paul Evans . |
| 3 | This allowed us to explore the process of secondment more generally , from first approach to application up to the point of departure some six to 23 months later . |
| 4 | Instruction is provided in research methods and analysis from first year ; and training is provided in the use of computers . |
| 5 | From first year , pupils are encouraged to use the microcomputer to locate fiction books and this is reinforced in the Modern Studies syllabus , later English work , and by the Art department . |
| 6 | This extract is taken from First Foal by Jane van Lennep published by J.A . |
| 7 | As the years progressed and the girls grew from babyhood to childhood and on into girlhood and womanhood , Bertha Cohen could not prevent her early hopes from first wilting and then withering : what she had got were two daughters who were replicas , not of herself , but of her husband . |
| 8 | Though the proportion of low birth weight infants decreases from very young maternal ages and from first birth order towards the prime childbearing ages and higher order births , it increases again considerably at later ages and from third and fourth birth orders ( Hungary , 1970 ; Selvin and Garfinkel , 1972 ; Chakraborty et al , 1975 ) . |
| 9 | Both are now recovering from first degree burns . |
| 10 | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton 's father was Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton , first Baron Lytton as distinct from first Earl , and wrote some massive novels including Eugene Aram ( 3 vols. 1832 ) , The Last Days of Pompeii ( 3 vols. 1834 ) , The Caxtons ( 3 vols. 1849 ) and The Last of the Barons ( 1843 ) . |
| 11 | Alcoholism may progress quickly over a few years but commonly progresses over twenty years or even more from first intoxication until terminal chronic disease . |
| 12 | Valtr Komarek and Jan Carnogursky were demoted from First Deputy Premier to Deputy Premier ( because there was no point in differentiating between the two levels of post , according to Marian Calfa , the Federal Premier ) . |
| 13 | Although data integrity will no doubt be safe for many years , there is no substitute for the real thing if you have to produce the document in a court of law 15 years from first filing it . |
| 14 | McCarthy is a 21-year-old central defender from Sherbourne , while Barry Ryan and Michael Curley are both from first division champions Limerick . |
| 15 | The Administration of Justice Act 1969 introduced the leap-frog appeal so that cases could go straight from first instance to the House of Lords when the Court of Appeal would be bound by precedent , thereby saving considerable costs . |
| 16 | These are dusk to around 1.30 a.m. , and from first glimmer of light to an hour or so after sun-up . |
| 17 | I can tell you , well not always but sometimes people from first sight I can tell . |
| 18 | According to Dromey and Taylor , it was clear from first day that the police : |
| 19 | This means cases ( which are generally adjourned four times from first hearing to sentence ) are taking 20 weeks to complete instead of eight . |
| 20 | I hobbled my shameful way from First Buttress North on Lundy as the sun 's last rays winked over the darkening sea ( and last orders for food were being called at the island 's only pub ) after tumbling from the very last move of the 90ft first pitch of Road Runner . |
| 21 | It is , however , an uncommonly fresh Rite from first note to last ; athletic , sharply emphatic , and light and airy of texture . |
| 22 | That could change on a technicality if , as seems likely , Aliysa is disqualified from first place in the Oaks for having traces of camphor in her system . |
| 23 | This is a process which , of course , begins from first term in Nursery when the young children are befriended by Senior Pupils who each year elect to assist the Staff and children at Nursery level and indeed throughout the Junior School . |
| 24 | What it came down to was that Erlich had one last evening as an independent , and that from first light , from waffles and coffee time , he 'd be part of their team and doing their bidding . |
| 25 | Normally this water fishes well from first light for a couple of hours or so . |
| 26 | From first thing in the morning , when you turn off the clock-radio , throw back the fibre-filled duvet and activate the toaster , to the end of the day when you switch the TV off and the kettle on , plastic items have become an indispensable part of our lives . |
| 27 | From first thing in the morning until we closed at night , there were people drifting in and out all the time . |
| 28 | There was no sort of law against erm employing people without a certain amount of rest and erm that was employed , er that was occupied that office from first thing in the morning when the bus went out from five o'clock and erm he would , the depot clerk would go off round about dinner time , there 'd be his relief who came on at nine o'clock and worked with him until dinner time and he 'd carry on till five and then we had , what was called , the cashiers come on duty then , there was a cashier and erm a hand . |
| 29 | one thing 's for sure the appointment of John Gorman is a popular one on the terraces … he 's given the fans what they crave for … and that 's loyalty … from first thing this morning supporters were rolling up at the County Ground to have their say |
| 30 | More typically , as a senior official writing from first hand knowledge observed : |