Example sentences of "[adj] in the first [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newcastle are 12 points clear in the First Division and Keegan added : ‘ There have been massive changes here and we 're beginning to reap the rewards already . |
| 2 | Only these two , both mares , from a field of 34 , went clear in the first round and then Raymakers , who had scored earlier in the day on Rinnetou , had to go first against the clock . |
| 3 | If we take the ‘ developing countries ’ as a group , compared with the ‘ more developed countries ’ , infant mortality ( in the first year ) is more than five times as high in the first group as it is in the second ; but during the years from one to four — that is , after weaning — the mortality rate in the developing countries is forty times as high as elsewhere : forty deaths for every thousand children surviving their first year , compared with one per thousand in the more developed areas ( Pate , 1965 ) . |
| 4 | So I could always go up there and I used there little drill for one thing and another in the first place and er built that premise for me there did and I did er |
| 5 | They did n't do much in the first game and we 're unbeaten away . ’ |
| 6 | The seniors , managed jointly by County President Peter Woodward and Richard Morris and coached by Chelmsford 's Paul Morris , beat Lincolnshire 3–0 in the first round and Cambridgeshire 5–0 in the semi-finals . |
| 7 | Longman had a very , very er , very good increase in profits and the Addison Wesley loss , which is bigger in the first half than usual er , is n't something that bothers me particularly , I 'm really quite relaxed about full year performance , but just to make sure they 're er , attacking erm , expenses , travel , administration , that kind but nothing in the erm , book investment programme . |
| 8 | They are similar , but the initial mouth opening is larger in the first group than in the second . |
| 9 | If you prefer to enter the finished garment measurements only , ( taken from a diagram in a magazine for instance ) you can put these in the first column and just enter zero each time in the ease column . |
| 10 | Yes it was at two down and the every time Palace went forward in the early stages you thought to yourself , here comes another goal because they looked like scoring , they were so dangerous , of course he 's a real threat and he got the better of for that first goal , er he was er danger all the time and er it was a little bit from er County 's performance in reverse to that of the previous week at Forest , where erm Palace were so good in the first half and er you would n't have been surprised if they 'd gone in two nil or even three nil ahead , the penalty brought Notts back into the game . |
| 11 | The 13 headfuls of ideas they 've got show occasional but disturbing signs of driving them aimlessly away from what makes them so good in the first place and into acid rock tedium city . |
| 12 | That five thousand per annum figure is a guaranteed figure , we could in fact print seven thousand in the first year if they wanted . |
| 13 | A hundred thousand in the first year and three hundred thousand in the second and subsequent years . |
| 14 | But Scotland looked better in the first half when only penalties were scored . |
| 15 | ‘ In the first two years of a Liberal Democrat government we would produce 600,000 jobs , 400,000 in the first year and 200,000 in the second . |
| 16 | Kilmarnock were unlucky in the first half when Gus McPherson hit the crossbar , but goals from Paul Harvey and Craig Flannigan after the break gave Clydebank the points . |
| 17 | We were poor in the first half and slightly better in the second . |
| 18 | We were very poor in the first half and paid the price . ’ |
| 19 | In fact , the estimated weights which the individual attaches to these extra income receipts is negative in the first period and positive in the second period ( except in Model 3 , but insignificantly ) . |
| 20 | Come the tournament he certainly putted well enough , and we were there after a 70 in the first round and a shot behind Jack Nicklaus after the second round . |
| 21 | So reported earnings would be lower in the first year and higher in the remaining four years with the declining balance method compared with the straight-line method . |
| 22 | I think we 'd be er prepared to accept this at , what 's asked for is a feasibility study , no more than that in the first instance and I think we 'd be prepared to accept . |
| 23 | We also expect marketing margins to be weaker in the first quarter because of the effect on demand of the generally mild weather . |
| 24 | His one-man show yesterday failed to prevent the Hammers moving to fourth in the First Division but it saved Pompey from embarrassment . |
| 25 | They never wavered in describing the issue as extremely important for their voting decision : 64 per cent called it extremely important in the first week and 63 per cent in the last . |
| 26 | Manor 's defence was kept busy in the first half and the Alton side held a slender 1–0 lead at the interval . |
| 27 | They , the birds , are mentioned first in the first verse when Mac Caig is talking about Saint Francis as a ‘ talker with birds ’ . |
| 28 | The seating in these open vehicles was two and one in the first class and the third . |
| 29 | Gazza headed home Signori 's free kick to tie the scores at 1-1 in the first half but took a knock on the ankle just before halftime and was less influential in the second half . |
| 30 | During the next ten days negotiations and discussions went on , in some of which I was the messenger for Sir Hubert , particularly in the efforts to get U Saw and U Ba Maw into the Council , successful in the first case but not in the second . |