Example sentences of "[adv] in the first [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coalmining industry has been a major symbol of the differences between the two main political parties of post-war Great Britain : the Labour party , with its firm commitment — especially in the first decades of the period — to public ownership of the ‘ commanding heights of the economy ’ , and the Conservative party and its much greater ( and increasing from the mid-1970s on ) commitment to free market operations with minimal state interference , let alone ownership . |
| 2 | But perhaps the most punishing — and undeserved — losses had been suffered by von Zwehl 's VII Reserve Corps , which had done so brilliantly in the first days of the battle . |
| 3 | Rather , it was his inability to end the war which , already in the first months of the Russian campaign and ever more strongly during 1942 , began inexorably to undermine the image of the far-sighted , infallible , and well-intentioned Führer . |
| 4 | Most of the growth was concentrated in the later decades of the nineteenth century and still more in the first years of the twentieth . |
| 5 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 6 | But the volume of ‘ railway milk ’ traffic grew only slowly in the first decades of railway transport . |
| 7 | The lira depreciated sharply in the first months of 1991 , however , falling 30 per cent against the US dollar between February and May . |
| 8 | Obviously , even in a statistically developed country it is an almost insurmountable task to achieve completeness in reporting spontaneous abortions , since an early miscarriage , particularly in the first weeks of pregnancy , can be easily mistaken as a late menses and some spontaneous abortions may not seem sufficient cause to some women for them to seek medical attention . |
| 9 | Some signs of their emergence can be seen even in the first days of the " new diplomacy " . |