Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The energies released enable the young teacher to ‘ try again' on some of the preferred but unsuccessful teaching strategies of the first year . |
| 2 | The X Business Group rates DEC third in X-terminal shipments for the first quarter of 1992 , after Network Computing Devices Inc and HP . |
| 3 | One of the five woodcut maps from the first edition of the Geneva Bible in English , printed at Geneva by Rouland Hall in 1560 . |
| 4 | ‘ Heavens no , ’ agreed Julia , thinking about the Easter plans for the first time that evening . |
| 5 | Among the rugs is one of only four known Esari prayer rugs from the first half of the nineteenth century , which is expected to bring £6–8,000 ( $10–14,000 ) . |
| 6 | Boots The chemist are to open pharmacy concessions for the first time in seven JS branches in late July . |
| 7 | Hewitt expects to raise between 500,000 and 600,000 balls for the ITF 's overseas aid programmes in the first year . |
| 8 | Now they could see that Jimmy was tugging a large metal filing cabinet with him , dragged from one of the side offices on the first floor . |
| 9 | The interval must be long enough to avoid any carry-over practice effects between the first administration and the second , but sufficiently short so that it can be assumed that there will have been no change in the real underlying abilities of the children concerned . |
| 10 | The announcement came after weak commodity prices for almost all raw material exports had cost the country an estimated US$450 million in lost export revenues in the first quarter . |
| 11 | A series of many similar observations can be made for a number of different tribes and issues , and cumulatively these give us a very clear picture of the extensive series of Celtic silver coinages of the first century BC . |
| 12 | In 1979 I went to the English Schools Championships for the first time , to run in the 200 metres for London . |
| 13 | Sir : Eurotunnel 's latest revenue forecasts for the first year of the tunnel 's operation are virtually unchanged from the forecasts made a year ago , and the long-term forecasts are up . |
| 14 | HGCA figures for the first half of the 1992–93 season show Ipswich exporting ten per cent of all British wheat . |
| 15 | Support Advantage for Motif clients and Informix servers ships in the first quarter with prices starting at $15,000 for five users . |
| 16 | The King meets with opposition leaders for the first time . |
| 17 | Foreign investors were allowed direct access into domestic stock markets for the first time from June 5 . |
| 18 | ‘ Live ’ delivered a hit single in ‘ No Woman No Cry ’ and put Marley into the album charts for the first time . |
| 19 | The Faculty Office or the Schools Liaison Office will be pleased to advise on this and also upon an appropriate choice of sixth year subjects , particularly where students have marginally failed to meet the entry requirements at the first sitting of Highers . |
| 20 | Research students register as Probationer Research Students in the first instance , and , subject to a formal review of progress at the end of the first year , they may have their registration upgraded to that of D.Phil . |
| 21 | So far , the courts have approached rent review clauses from the first perspective only . |
| 22 | In a major government reorganization in Croatia on Aug. 1 Tudjman included opposition politicians for the first time in a new " government of democratic unity " which continued to be dominated by the Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) with 11 out of 27 posts . |
| 23 | And although attendance during the rainy season was poor , the company 's projection of 11m visitors for the first year has not proved far from the mark . |
| 24 | A PUBLIC inquiry today could make legal history as the Nature Conservancy Council attempts for the first time to purchase compulsorily a farmer 's land to protect a rich wildlife habitat . |
| 25 | Where the gallery projects from the first floor of the house , the wool room was in the house on the first floor . |
| 26 | Several drafts of a paper on ‘ Extensions of Validation Procedure ’ were debated amongst officers and in Council meetings in the first half of 1975 , and in July at Kerr 's suggestion its title was changed to ‘ Partnership in Validation ’ . |
| 27 | This decade also saw the start of organised inter-club sport activities with the first cricket matches between two deaf institutes taking place in 1882 . |
| 28 | This established licensing hours for the first time , and put brewers on the defensive . |
| 29 | September 1990 also saw the prescribed ATs and PS for the core subjects in the first year of key stage 2 and for English in the first year of key stage 3 brought into effect . |
| 30 | Well the difference between these two sides was a Newcastle born mid-fielder , by the name of Paul Gascoigne ; not only did he score two second half goals for the first division club , but he dominated proceedings in mid-field . |