Example sentences of "[prep] [num] for the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A novelty ladies ' night boosted the attendance mark past 8,000 for the first time this season , and Chief Executive Frank Corfe said : ‘ The evening was a success . |
| 2 | A novelty ladies ' night boosted the attendance mark past 8,000 for the first time this season , and Chief Executive Frank Corfe said : ‘ The evening was a success . |
| 3 | ANDY GOODWAY and David Hobbs , two former Oldham forwards , were yesterday rehabilitated at international level when Malcolm Reilly named a squad of 21 for the first Test against New Zealand on Saturday week . |
| 4 | Fowler and Broad then got off to a good start with 90 for the first wicket before things began to go wrong . |
| 5 | Tokyo rose above 21,000 for the first time since March last year , but it finished the week only 0.1% up . |
| 6 | On visiting Hawes Water in 1801 for the first time , Wm . |
| 7 | I vividly recall meeting the young man in 1979 for the first time . |
| 8 | Use of animals in experiments in the UK increased in 1991 for the first time in 15 years . |
| 9 | The new organisation is concerned by the increase in 1992 for the first time in six years of fur imports to £22 million , the equivalent of two million animals , and a renewed popularity in fur clothing or trimmings . |
| 10 | In 1749 for the first time a single system of tactics was laid down for the entire army , while in 1765 the Hofkriegsrath assumed the power to appoint to all ranks above that of captain and from 1776 an organized State military transport corps began to be built up . |
| 11 | Questions about shareholdings were put in 1987 for the first time , at the request of the Treasury , anxious to confirm and expand the conclusions of previous surveys by market research groups . |
| 12 | The one at Harewood ( Fig. 23c ) , erected by Carr in 1760 for the first earl , is designed to form an appropriate approach to the great gate ( Fig. 23b ) of the new Palladian house . |
| 13 | Britain 's engineering industry went into trade deficit in 1983 for the first time ( see chart ) . |
| 14 | The survey predicted that France would have lower inflation and higher growth than the OECD average in 1990 for the first time since 1970 , with retail price inflation expected to be 2.9 per cent and growth estimated at 3.1 per cent in 1990 . |
| 15 | The Commission published a report on competition policy on June 24 , 1991 , in which it said that the number of intra-EC mergers among larger companies had in 1990 for the first time exceeded that of purely national mergers . |
| 16 | With this in mind , Botham chose to field first , only for Greenidge and Haynes to put on 168 for the first wicket . |
| 17 | When Haynes and Best put on 113 for the first wicket it all became academic , the main interest being whether Best would get his hundred . |
| 18 | Adrian Griffith ( 34 ) and David Wright ( 26 ) put on 45 for the first wicket , before Barry Metcalf ( 23 not out ) and Steve Wundke ( 33 not out ) saw Chester home . |
| 19 | My advice would be not to follow the Gadarene rush if the prices are significantly higher than last year 's ( around £300 per dozen for the first growths ) . |
| 20 | McFarland and Adams got the visitors off to a good start putting on 35 for the first wicket . |
| 21 | He and Washbrook once put on 350 for the first wicket against Sussex . |
| 22 | There was no hint that Waringstown would be kept down to such a moderate total when Shane Harrison and Brian Sturgeon put on 46 for the first wicket . |
| 23 | John Clinch ( 83 ) and Paul Harris ( 82 ) put on 170 for the first wicket against Stowmarket , who were skittled out for only 85 thanks to a burst of 4–1–7–5 by Richard Pybus . |
| 24 | Gooch became the only player to score a fifty in the match and put on 95 for the first wicket with Boycott , but when the fifth wicket fell just before tea they were only 72 ahead and could still have lost . |
| 25 | When , in the first Test at Trent Bridge , Gooch and Broad put on 125 for the first wicket the smiles were widening all the time ; when the last wicket fell with just 245 on the board we knew where we really were . |
| 26 | After Greenidge and Haynes had put on 96 for the first wicket , Fraser had Greenidge lbw ; immediately after the interval Haynes hit Malcolm 's second ball for four , only for the next ball to leap up at him and give Lamb an easy catch . |
| 27 | Well no no but I mean , if we limit it to two for the first day , and a I mean I shall know by eleven o'clock |
| 28 | 474 set England a stiff target but the pitch was less malicious than the earlier ones and Gooch and Slack put on 127 for the first wicket . |
| 29 | When the county followed on 179 behind Surrey , he and T.C. O'Brien put on 228 for the first wicket to create a win by 79 runs . |
| 30 | Ladbrokes quote her at 40–1 for the first Classic of 1994 . |