Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun pl] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dromore jockey John Reid who is having his best ever season was in a suitably bullish mood when I spoke to him about the remainder of the 1993 Flat racing year which has seen him head inexorably towards 100 winners for the first time in his career . |
| 2 | Two guineas were paid for the use of the engine and hose , with payment of two shillings for the first hour and one shilling per hour afterwards for firemen , and one shilling for the first hour and six pence afterwards for pumpers . |
| 3 | I refer not only to the fact that the match started with two wides , courtesy of Chris Lewis ; not only to the strange sight of an opening bowler in odd socks ( Neil Mallender black left sock , white right sock ) ; not only to the fact that England had no player with three initials for the first time since the third Test against New Zealand in 1990 , the selectors having left out Salisbury and having sent get-well-soon messages to DeFreitas , Tufnell and Fraser ; not only to the fact that Mallender joined the huge list of Test opening bowlers with a double ‘ I ’ in their name ( a list that in recent years has included Dilley , Allott , Small , Williams and Ellison : expect Millns to add his name to the pile soon . |
| 4 | Splitting into two teams for the first attempt , Fowler and Jones climbed the incomplete Japanese route up the south ridge but were driven back by poor weather , while Saunders and Sustad attempted the spur . |
| 5 | We only had to wait for five minutes for the first boooooom … and a second … and a third . |
| 6 | They arrange crews , sailing one per three beginners for the first week ; for the second week they coach on request . |
| 7 | It costs up to thirty pounds for the first series of jabs … ansd then between fifteen and twenty pounds for an annual booster . |
| 8 | These allowances were increased during the war , and by 1918 were worth four shillings for the first child , decreasing to one shilling each for fourth and subsequent children . |