Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [prep] [art] first [num] " in BNC.

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1 Language work in the final year is more specialized than in the first two years and includes translation and précis writing in administrative , technical and commercial registers of the languages , as well as some interpreting .
2 ‘ The overall results are slightly worse than for the first three months of 1992 , with definite signs of the recessionary effect becoming widespread nationally , ’ said Manpower spokeswoman Lilian Bennett .
3 Grain prices in the last five years of Elizabeth 's reign were 75 per cent higher than in the first five years ; but wages and industrial prices had risen much less steeply .
4 So far this year the value of sales has been 5 per cent higher than in the first ten months of 1990 .
5 The Gongsters are complete for the 3 years 48–51 except for the first two issues .
6 The evidence for this stage , Morgan and Engels believed , was stronger than for the first two stages .
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