Example sentences of "[prep] these [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 I intend to keep the fry in a number of these nets for the first few weeks of their lives and feed them on newly hatched brine shrimp .
2 Yes , this , this kind of thing happens to people who 've been in traumatic situations , like erm er prisoner of war camps , severe accidents and stuff like that , and Freud himself of course saw quite a lot of these cases after the First World War .
3 Anyone using the double-paddle of these canoes for the first time finds his ( or her ) chest expanded in a strain on shoulder muscles he never knew were there until he started canoeing .
4 What a pleasure it is to hear some of these pieces for the first time in clear digital sound !
5 How did you find out about these firms in the first place ?
6 The micro , which is itself able to display rich patterns of behaviour , perhaps presents us with these opportunities for the first time .
7 No doubt human settlers , moving into these forests for the first time , were delighted and surprised to find such fertile meadows in the heart of the dense forest and built their homes beside them .
8 In these texts for the first time we find ‘ precatory ’ being used to describe the essential nature of trusts , and as the key to discovering what legal institution is involved .
9 Wordsworth did not comment much on these matters in the first edition of his Guide but they are clearly set out in the second edition ( 1820 ) .
10 Shire Counties fared just as strangely , with both Cumbria and Northumberland being at the extreme low end of the ranking in change among these authorities for the first two years and yet requiring one of the largest increases in the third .
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