Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] [art] first [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients were interviewed monthly for the first five months and every three months thereafter . |
| 2 | BANKRUPTCIES have hit a record level with 45,000 firms going bust in the first nine months of this year . |
| 3 | Nothing had gone wrong with the first two pregnancies . |
| 4 | ‘ With Amber I felt sick for the first five months , ’ she says . |
| 5 | He had been boxing in South Africa for three years and , according to boxing historian Gilbert Odd , had remained unbeaten for the first two years ( 1978 , pp.18–19 ) . |
| 6 | What we tend to do we get bored after the first two thousand and we start writing people letters . |
| 7 | Tranmere made a lightning start with Aldridge firing wide in the first 60 seconds . |
| 8 | Two players tested positive in the first two months and since then speculation , rumours , rows and ructions have been the order of the day . |
| 9 | I watched him jog off , the head held high for the first twenty yards , to promote oxygenation , then tucked in low as he measured out the rhythm of his pace . |
| 10 | Re-exporting of tropical and semi-tropical products had boomed in the later seventeenth century and although expansion was less rapid thereafter , it held firm through the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | He had been held scoreless for the first twenty-five minutes of the game but certainly went to town afterwards ! |