Example sentences of "[noun] a [noun sg] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Child benefit goes up to £10 a week for the first child and Pounds 8.10 for each subsequent child . |
| 2 | The power available from the hydroelectric station will be at least 800 MW , eight hours a day for the first 20 years , thereafter falling by about 30 per cent . |
| 3 | Also at the LSE , Hella was guaranteed £60 a year for the first two years of her course by Professor Harold Laski , the brother of Elaine Blond 's first husband . |
| 4 | I think I could pay you two shillings a week for the first year and we 'd have to see how things went . |
| 5 | Louis Gerstner clearly decided that discretion was the better part of valour when it came to facing the blue rinse brigade at the annual meeting in Tampa , Florida yesterday , and just before the meeting , IBM Corp announced that its diminished dividend would be unchanged at 54 cents a share for the first quarter ; there had been fears that the company would cut it again . |
| 6 | Sun disappointed some people last Thursday by posting income of only five cents a share for the first quarter ended September 25 . |
| 7 | When you are giving a dog a bath for the first time , it may be helpful to have someone else to help you . |
| 8 | She did five episodes a week for the first two years but then began to ease up after her record career began to take off . |
| 9 | Last August the insurers offered to pay them £500 a day for the first week they were detained , and then £300 a day for each subsequent week . |
| 10 | With funds to invest worth $1 billion and a reputation for picking winners , he can move markets : the gold price has since climbed rapidly by almost $15 , passing $150 an ounce for the first time since October . |