Example sentences of "[adj] in the first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | O tonnes per day on-line in the first half of this year . |
| 2 | CHRIS WILKINSON gave both himself and Jeremy Bates a massive pre-Wimbledon lift when he beat Argentinian left-hander Javier Frana 7–5 6–4 in the first round of the Direct Line Insurance Manchester Open at Didsbury . |
| 3 | Over the last five years , the number of centres entering candidates for National Certificate has grown steadily and , over the same period , the number of modules in the catalogue has risen from around 700 in the first year of operation to around 2500 this year . |
| 4 | Mortality is relatively high in the first year of life and then decreases during childhood ( see Table 3.1 ) . |
| 5 | ICI will be able to stop manufacturing CFCs 11 and 12 in the first quarter of next year , having secured supplies for its remaining customers through a deal with Akzo . |
| 6 | The predefinition is manifest in the first place in the planning literature produced by the Shetland Islands Council , specifically the Shetland Structure Plan published in 1976 . |
| 7 | A John Thomas hat-trick enabled Albion to take the aggregate score to six apiece with a 5-3 win at Bradford , while Palace won 3-2 having lost 2-1 in the first leg of their clash with second division basement dwellers , Leicester City . |
| 8 | Dragon Pallets ( Ian Fullerton , Dave Pearce ) won 2-1 in the first division against Light of India and Wing Half ( John Farrell , Ritchie Martin ) defeated MSC Eastham 2-0 . |
| 9 | GREAT BRITAIN 'S team of Mark Petchey and Chris Wilkinson yesterday beat Czechoslovakia 2-1 in the first round of the European men 's team tennis championships in Trieste , Italy . |
| 10 | Student numbers have grown from 50,000 in the first year of operation to nearly 190,000 in session 1988–89 . |
| 11 | Although what is and is not acceptable in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist changes from minute to minute . |
| 12 | And they , I do n't know what you 'll think , but they reckon they spend at least two to three days average in the first week of the new month purely doing new reports . |
| 13 | There is a minor triumph for British tennis when Jo Durie , Clare Wood and Anne Hobbs beat Indonesia 3-0 in the first round of the Federation Cup in Tokyo . |
| 14 | Drumaness Mills have not conceded a goal this season and they again recorded a blank sheet when beating Dunmurry Rec 3-0 in the first round of the Steel & Sons Cup at Ashley Park . |
| 15 | He defeated the emigré businessman Stanislaw Tyminski , who had surprisingly come second in the first round of the elections held on Nov. 25 [ see pp. 37840-41 ] , by 10,622,696 votes ( 74.3 per cent ) to 3,693,098 ( 25.7 per cent ) . |
| 16 | Powell , who is rated in the top fifteen in the country in his age group , used his size advantage to great effect in both matches , but it was particularly noticeable in the first set of the final , in which he powered his way into a 6–1 opening lead . |
| 17 | Firstly , H pylori with homogeneously distributed chromatinic and cytoplasmic content within the bacterial body ( Fig 1 ) , which was associated with all the patterns of epithelial state and was seen in all the examined ultrastructural sections ; this pattern , however , was prominent in the first pattern of contact with gastric epithelium presenting normal looking epithelial cells . |
| 18 | In Slatkin 's RCA recording , I was conscious in the first movement of Elgar 's poignant sense of an ideal world ( or relationship ) beyond his reach . |
| 19 | After losing a couple of games early in the season , Yeovil are now unbeaten in nine outings , moving up to sixth place in the Conference , and disposed of Torquay 5-2 in the first round with the aid of a hat-trick from striker Paul Batty . |
| 20 | Engineering and other standards are valuable in the first place as structured communication . |
| 21 | It was first published in 1650 in the first edition of dances collected by John Playford and would certainly have been danced at the court of King Charles II . |
| 22 | Harry Christophers directs The Sixteen in the first volume of a projected thematic grouping for Collins Classics of Tudor church pieces from the Eton Choir Book . |
| 23 | Of the eleven who won the Cup for Manchester United in 1948 , most of whom were internationals and all in the first rank of senior professionals , five went into football coaching and management , three ran newsagents ' shops ( customers presumably enjoyed discussing the sports headlines with men who had once made them ) , two worked in factories , and one became a night-telephonist . |
| 24 | In 1990 Tatra sold 10,000 trucks , but just 80 in the first half of 1992 . |
| 25 | Once the phase of immediate implementation was passed , this group came little by little to realign itself with many in the first group against whom they had in the conciliar years themselves taken quite a clear stand : a new status quo must be achieved if the Church was not to be upset by ceaseless change and debate . |
| 26 | The resistance continued to claim that Vietnamese troops and settlers were infiltrating Cambodia ( over 5,000 in the first half of the month alone ) , and in one report alleged Lao involvement . |
| 27 | Hence the long , much altered and much discussed passage beginning already mentioned on p. 85 ; and the ‘ spots of time ’ meditation to be discussed on pp. 134–9 — which is at the heart of Wordsworth 's concern with the use of the past , this too is already present in the first Part of the 1798–9 version , before being moved to its present position in the longer texts . |
| 28 | They can hardly be very late in the first half of the sixth century . |
| 29 | First decide on just two matches that appear to have outstanding draw chances and mark them X in the first column of the Treble Chance ( to the right of the fixtures ) . |
| 30 | AN experienced England side overcame a determined home team 39-24 in the first round of the World Rugby Classic tournament in Hamilton , Bermuda . |