Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intro locks with the kick , adding subtle fills in the first four bars . |
| 2 | In 1873 he returned to England to take up the post of electrician to the Highton Battery Company , and in 1877 set up the first experimental overhead telephone line in England , only two years after the invention of the telephone in the United States by Alexander Graham Bell [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | The Legendre functions of integer order are well known , but it may still be appropriate to note just the first few . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , evidence of either using tools or eating meat does not appear among the fossils until almost two million years later than that indicated when the first upright hominid skeleton was discovered in fossil form . |
| 5 | However , they went on to comment that the assumed riskless rate of 6 per cent in Part 1 of the results may have been an over estimate , as Part II shows only the first 2 factors to be significant while the fifth factor lost all explanatory power . |
| 6 | When Peter the Great gave up the first Russian fleet in southern waters after being disastrously defeated by the Turks in 1711 , he said that " The Lord God drove me out of this place , like Adam out of paradise " . |
| 7 | 6 Write out the first 5 elements in the set of prime numbers . |