Example sentences of "[prep] the first [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | for the first nineteen and a half minutes . |
| 2 | For the first two and a half years of his life he was in and out of hospital until they found the right medication . |
| 3 | When they first interviewed Sykes , on Monday this is , he told them he was staying at a cottage in the Lake District entirely on his own for the first two and a half weeks in September . |
| 4 | The Conservatives were to rule for thirteen years , with Churchill as Prime Minister for the first three and a half . |
| 5 | ‘ He says I had the tools , the knowledge , the opportunity and the location , and he looked up those races I rode at Ascot and worked out that I could have had time between the first two and the last to drive to Maidenhead and remove Harry 's car . |
| 6 | It was the same story with the first three but the fourth told me that I would be certain to get a coffin from a firm of suppliers in Birkenhead and was kind enough to give me their telephone number . |
| 7 | Ellen was adamantly opposed to the first two and a noisy supporter of the last two , while my position was more or less the opposite . |