Example sentences of "[noun] of [verb] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have given up hope of racing in the first round at Snetterton , later this month , ’ he admitted . |
| 2 | The likelihood of dying in the first year is increased by no more than twofold . |
| 3 | The way it just sort of ends in the first sentence . ’ |
| 4 | If you only want the bloody music , whe I , what 's the point of taping in the first place ! |
| 5 | ‘ But I wo n't know how bad the damage is until I see the physio tomorrow , and then I may have an idea if I have a chance of playing in the first league game . ’ |
| 6 | Because the pattern of trading in the first year of the market was so confined by technical and political constraints it would be unsafe to generalise from it . |
| 7 | The report starts by reviewing the pattern of spending in the first two years of the fund . |
| 8 | When elected in 1981 , the Mitterrand government harked back to the legacy of planning in the first postwar decades ( chapter 18 ) . |