Example sentences of "[noun] [num] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | About half their original sample had been given a second interview four years after the first . |
| 2 | INSURANCE giant General Accident has few grumbles over its £21 million loss in the first six months of the year . |
| 3 | At the end of each season , the bottom three clubs in the First Division are relegated to the Second Division for the next season . |
| 4 | In bar 3 the G begins a ‘ transposed ’ group of fourths , while the second half of bar 4 returns to the first grouping , which then continues to the end of the example : |
| 5 | Er he will be quite will willing and happy to do that on behalf of the three organizations erm here in County Hall one day in the first week in October well any day barring Thursday of that week . |
| 6 | The wall of molten lava has come to a virtual halt 150 yards from the first home in the town , but officials said yesterday that its flow appeared to have picked up speed further up the slope . |
| 7 | Digital Equipment Corp has confirmed that its November 10 announcement of the first Alpha-based machines will include five systems ranging in power from a desktop workstation to a mainframe-class machine . |
| 8 | ‘ Operation Desert Shield ’ , said Brooklyn Congressman Major Owens , speaking at an anti-war press conference one week before the first US bombs rained on Baghdad , ‘ is Bush 's way of shielding public attention from the monstrous thefts in the S&Ls ( Savings & Loan Assocs. ) ; from crumbling bridges , roads and subways ; from deteriorating education and healthcare systems ; and from the growing number of people forced to live and beg on city streets . ’ |
| 9 | It has an average of thirteen point five marks for the first X plus one tests . |
| 10 | Another student has his average as thirteen point five marks for the first blah blah blah , right . |
| 11 | The AirBreak group , which also includes Next Holidays , Peter Pan Ltd and Suntan Tours , revealed a £2.9 million loss for the first six months of this year . |
| 12 | Plain sailing YACHTING : New Zealand beat Japan 's Nippon by one minute 43 seconds in the first of the America 's Cup challengers ' semi-finals off San Diego , California . |
| 13 | Lennox Lewis , the British heavyweight , stormed to another thrilling victory when he knocked out Bradford 's Steve Garber in one minute 30 seconds of the first round in Hull last night to record his fourth successive victory . |
| 14 | It had over 20 performances in Vienna alone , and brought Mozart 1,200 florins in the first two days . |
| 15 | That you were saying your lecturer explained about one- one session in the first half an hour ? |
| 16 | The Whitbread brewing and leisure company will provide 100 jobs as part of its £2 million investment in the first Scottish outlet for its American-style Thank God It 's Friday bistro chain . |
| 17 | A warning was telephoned to the Samaritans and the BBC seven minutes after the first explosion . |
| 18 | The serum aspartate aminotransferase was 30 U/l , alkaline phosphatase 200 U/l , total bilirubin 29 µmol/l , albumin 36 g/l , international normalised ratio 1.14 , PTT 33.1 s , and erythrocyte sedimentation rate 2 mm in the first hour . |
| 19 | Yet the World Bank has conducted and published project audits on average seven years after the first disbursement of funds , and three years after the final year of disbursement . |
| 20 | The Independent can offer ten pairs of free tickets for Mon 9 Oct to the first ten readers who phone 01-436 0605 today ( between 10am and 10.30am only ) with the answer to the following question : which film is A Little Night Music based on ? |
| 21 | He was to fly a Vickers Viking I amphibian to the first post-war Aeronautical Show in Paris . |
| 22 | Draw a second parallel line 13 mm from the first , then a third one 5 mm from the second ( illustration 3 ) . |
| 23 | The context included the selector' five changes between the first and second Tests against England , the bog losses of that tour , and the subsequent glorious run in the World Cup . |
| 24 | Alexei Mikhailichenko , the Ukrainian , will be number one choice for the first leg tie against Lyngby of Denmark at Ibrox on Wednesday . |
| 25 | The patient complained of spontaneous pain diffusely in the right knee two months after the first bowel symptoms , 28 days after the start of prednisolone treatment , and after a cumulative dose of 2.3 g . |
| 26 | When it was privatised , the prospectus projected a £10.2 million loss for the first year ( which in fact was 16 months long to take its accounts to the calendar year-end ) . |
| 27 | There had been four women members in the outgoing Majlis , and in the April 10 vote for the first time a women was elected to represent a constituency outside Tehran ( in the holy city of Mashad ) . |
| 28 | Currently working with the Sybase database on Sun and HP hardware , AFIC is promising an RS/6000 port by the fourth quarter , and Oracle 7 versions by the first quarter of next year . |
| 29 | Erm , in addition to that there 's the erm there 's the U A three stuff in the first half of this year which is fourteen people for four months , eight people for two months effectively . |
| 30 | Because , for reasons mentioned earlier , the itching may persist for some time , an just in case the first application was not exhaustive , it is quite common to advise a second treatment one week after the first . |