Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking at the audience , you may find that only those in the first five rows are alert and interested — the next five rows are straining forward , probably frowning , while the people in the back of the hall have given up and are doing their best to hide the fact that they are nodding off . |
| 2 | Although not profitable in the first year of acquisition , BMK with its complementary customer base and very different range of production equipment , will greatly strengthen us in the longer term . |
| 3 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 4 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 5 | It is my opinion that the heavy grade mesh with the narrower width ( 6 inches ) between verticals is by far the best value in the long run although considerably dearer in the first instance . |
| 6 | Even if one may offer alternative solutions for some of the actual tempo relationships Devos establishes , he is surely on safer ground than is William Christie in his more recent recording ( Harmonia Mundi HMC 901298 ) , where not only are there no audible attempts to establish tempo relationships , except where the composer does not call for them ( as we shall see ) , but the tactus lurches from 72 to 85 to 66 and then 96 in the first four tempos employed , and the tempo within sections is seriously disturbed on several occasions by extravagant rallentandos . |
| 7 | In 1990 Tatra sold 10,000 trucks , but just 80 in the first half of 1992 . |