Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | TONIGHT David Hockney , as set designer , will be accompanied by some 30 friends for the first night of the Royal Opera House 's new production of Richard Strauss 's Die Frau ohne Schatten ( The Woman Without Shadow ) , directed by John Cox and conducted by Bernard Haitinck . |
| 2 | Some three weeks after the first anniversary of her husband 's death , she telephoned saying , ‘ Thank you for your letter ’ ( this being the one I had written a year earlier ) . |
| 3 | THE TOP three finishers in the First Division took a firm step towards the Carlsberg play-offs at Wembley Arena in May with comfortable away wins in the first round of the best-of-three quarter-final series . |
| 4 | Subtracting these 200 msec from the 550 msec by which the RP preceded the movement , Libet concluded that the neural activity associated with an apparently voluntary act began some 350 msec before the first moment at which the subject was aware of his intention to act . |
| 5 | Swindon Town expect to sell their entire allocation of thirty-six thousand tickets for the First Division play-off final . |
| 6 | The first quarter was in 58.6sec , and this 17 years before the first four-minute mile . |
| 7 | However , it was to be another fourteen years before the first permanent regional transmitter was opened in Mbeya in 1972 . |
| 8 | With the closure of a further five mills in the first half of the current year major cost savings will be realised . |
| 9 | In it she explained that she had experienced a second climax during lovemaking which took place some five minutes after the first . |
| 10 | Property repossessions in the Nord Northern region up by forty seven percent in the first first six months . |
| 11 | The high costs were one of the justifications for the creation of a Government Working Party on Woonerven in 1984 , with a brief to assess the operation of Woonerven some seven years after the first legislation . |
| 12 | An excellent recreation of the funfair type shooting range with an extra six levels after the first screen . |
| 13 | It certainly is the case that the Reagan administration was never able to duplicate the domestic policy triumphs of 1981 in the remaining three years of the first term . |
| 14 | So , when the 1971 British Lions stretched Fergie McCormick this way and that when winning the First Test on Mains ' home ground , the All Black selectors decided that McCormick had to go , and Mains went on to play the remaining three Tests of the first rubber that the Lions had won in New Zealand . |
| 15 | So what you 've got there is a mass of you 've got six twelve words on the first circle and then you 've got twenty four words on the outer circle are you gon na dump all that information on to the audience to try and persuade them of your objective ? |
| 16 | Dickson duly complied with their wishes with an appalling 1–4 record on the first day . |
| 17 | In the city the FT one hundred shares index broke through the three thousand barrier for the first time today after hopes of an early cut in interest rates . |
| 18 | It had been feared it would break through the three million barrier for the first time in six years . |
| 19 | Having distributed his favours fairly equally between these two groups in the first half of 1959 Castro then abruptly and decisively abandoned his on-the-fence posture in favour of the ‘ radical ’ position . |
| 20 | He three-putted four times in the first six holes and on the inward run twice fluffed chips to take a third 6 at the thirteenth . |
| 21 | Seventy three percent in the first trimester , in other words the first three months are male . |
| 22 | Erm and banks incidentally , your protection is seventy five percent of the first twenty thousand , er which is where that B C C I figure came from , do you remember all that thing about fifteen thousand is your return ? |
| 23 | Bankruptcies , including voluntary and er company liquidations , up by seventy five percent in the first six months of this year . |
| 24 | Captain Naas Botha said ‘ We want a repeat of our match against the Midlands in midweek when we played effective rugby for the full 80 minutes for the first time on tour . |
| 25 | But his official estimates of the effects of a 2,500-megaton attack were 36 million deaths on the first day and 72 million by the 60th day , without reckoning on the effects of a breakdown of organized services . |
| 26 | The £156-a-year cap on losses is expected to help 6 million people in the first year of the poll tax . |
| 27 | The cellar I have at least seen , and been in occasionally ; I know all the rooms on the ground floor and the second ; the loft is my domain entirely and home of the Wasp Factory , no less ; but that one room on the first floor I do n't know , I have never even seen inside . |
| 28 | Er , well , the extra costs was two million a year er , and at the end of the first six months in the first year we 'd , we 'd , we 'd achieved a million extra revenue , so it looks as if we 've paid for it . |
| 29 | Well folks this was not a classic in fact the first 40 minutes of the first half was utterly crap . |
| 30 | But after losing fifteen million pounds in the first half of the year , Tarmac has put its property division up for sale , including the Churchward development . |