Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in the first [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Divinity degrees require some study in each of the departments listed below in the first two years of the course . |
| 2 | Seymour committed suicide on 20 Apr. 1836 ; his illustrations appear only in the first two parts of PP ( Apr. , May 1836 ) . |
| 3 | The bill , the most draconian to have been passed by any state , prohibited abortion in cases other than to save a woman 's life or in cases of rape ( if reported within five days ) or incest , where abortion would be permitted only in the first 13 weeks . |
| 4 | It 's the type of client , life assurance clients are the type of client where the commission 's all come out in the first four years . |
| 5 | I got excuse me , put down in the first eleven for hockey . |
| 6 | Everything came through in the first nine months of 1991 so the company was able to trade profitably . |
| 7 | But after the relativists ' case is built up in the first two articles , no one has much to say for it , at least not the strong version that splits systems of thought into watertight compartments . |
| 8 | ( Currently students gaining a baccalauréat were guaranteed a university place ; however , 50 per cent of students dropped out in the first two years . ) |
| 9 | The suggestions put forward in the first three leaflets of the three-year campaign range from turning down the thermostat and turning off unnecessary lights to installing double glazing . |
| 10 | ‘ There is a big opportunity for our young players to play regularly in the first eleven . |
| 11 | But there was a limit beyond which the furtherance of working-class interests conflicted with the national interest ; few were prepared to advance there in the first two years of the war . |
| 12 | From there on , the cherry and whites took complete control and were 10 points up in the first 14 minutes . |
| 13 | He was the seventh seed in the men 's championship to go out in the first two rounds , a record for early exits at the tournament . |
| 14 | He was the seventh seed in the men 's championship to go out in the first two rounds , a record for early exits at the tournament . |
| 15 | Do I come running out in the first ten seconds ? |
| 16 | UK Life operations continued to perform well in the first three months of the year . |
| 17 | By stocking slowly in the first six months you could increase this slightly , to 25″ . |
| 18 | The importance of the parallel market is touched on in the first two sources above , and also in Podolski ( 1986 , Chs 5.2 and 6.2 ) , Llewellyn et al. |
| 19 | As with any new aquarium or pond the water quality must be monitored especially in the first 6–8 weeks . |
| 20 | The FA will also investigate Dunstable 's bizarre exit from the FA Cup on Saturday when the entire team walked off in their second-round qualifying tie at Staines after having three players sent off in the first 38 minutes . |
| 21 | Ards fell behind in the first five minutes when uncertain defence allowed left wing Bell in for a try which was converted from the touchline by Barnes . |
| 22 | CAPTAIN Will Carling last night told England to sing up and play up in the first 20 minutes or risk Naas Botha wrecking their hopes of winning today 's historic international at Twickenham . |
| 23 | Oxford Union treasurer Toby Lewis said : ‘ Mr Clinton has got very fond memories of Oxford and we are very optimistic he will come here in the first two years of office . |
| 24 | None of the studies presents an operative model ( Rosener , in our opinion , comes closest , but her model , as she shows herself , is more heuristic than empirical ) , and so in the next section a model will be set out and explained in the light of the evaluation criteria for participation and effectiveness put forward in the first two sections of this paper . |
| 25 | ‘ I often feel that forwards waste too much time in scrummaging especially in the first six scrums of a game ’ , says Derek Bevan . |
| 26 | He had already blown out in the first two matches yet still went for a practice to give me information on a different stretch for which I was grateful . |
| 27 | Launched on a miniscule budget and a surge of dubious optimism , held together in the first eighteen months by a poultice of desperation and blind faith ( not to mention liberal applications of cow gum and sellotape ) , still independent after a decade of brinkmanship publishing this is a tremendous achievement . |
| 28 | They have contributed only 39% of what the central government requires them to hand over in the first three months of the year . |
| 29 | The era ended abruptly in the first two years of the 1980s , when almost every astronomical satellite reached the end of its life . |