Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the first [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 3 | Gargy Patel looks back on the first twelve months of the motorway completed after two decades of delay . |
| 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 | A dynamic study of the posterior lung fields was carried out for the first 15 minutes after injecting the radiolabelled leucocytes . |
| 6 | It had been started with two friends by Adrian Cotterell , Polytechnic journalism drop-out , and although the two friends had themselves dropped out after the first twelve months Cotterell had managed to keep enough people together for the place to stay in business . |
| 7 | That 's it because what you well you either hold on to the first five or six and then you lose the rest or sometimes you remember the beginning and the end and you lose the bit in the middle , ah . |
| 8 | I got excuse me , put down in the first eleven for hockey . |
| 9 | ‘ Most of the children came in during the first two days and our helplines were flooded with calls , but they appear to have calmed down now . ’ |
| 10 | Everything came through in the first nine months of 1991 so the company was able to trade profitably . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He notes that any loss of earnings can usually be made up during the first ten years of work . |
| 13 | ( Currently students gaining a baccalauréat were guaranteed a university place ; however , 50 per cent of students dropped out in the first two years . ) |
| 14 | In Nottinghamshire no less than 164,508 ‘ presumed pickets ’ were turned back during the first 27 weeks of the strike ’ ( Wallington , 1985 : 154 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's a very good thing he 's been involved in the pre-tour training at Lilleshall and is going along for the first three weeks of the Indian tour to bowl in the nets . |
| 16 | Over 60 turned up at the first two sessions at the town 's Southlands Centre . |
| 17 | From there on , the cherry and whites took complete control and were 10 points up in the first 14 minutes . |
| 18 | Debussy takes over for the first two of five of the Eight Piano Pieces Op. 15 , of Dirk Schäfer ( 1873–1931 ) — surprisingly , in view of the derisory remarks Schäfer made about Debussy quoted in the notes . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | FREE toothbrushes are being given out to the first 400 visitors to an exhibition encouraging people to brush up on dental hygiene . |
| 22 | The delay necessitated going back to the trough for a third-round of venture capital after going through the $12m brought in by the first two rounds . |
| 23 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 24 | Do I come running out in the first ten seconds ? |
| 25 | And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship . |
| 26 | 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. |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | So I will take the blame for that one , but why did n't the machine tuck up on the first two garments of the same size ? |
| 29 | Er Nick carry on from the first six months after Oliver Twist you can read |
| 30 | To make the needle fit the groove , the disc contained abrasive material , so the tip would be ground down during the first two or three revolutions . |