Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] the first [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Design right lasts for 15 years from the end of the calendar year in which it was first recorded in a design document ( which includes storage in a computer ) or an article was made to the design , unless articles have been made available for sale or hire within the first five years in which case the right lasts only a further 10 years . |
| 2 | … ’ Schedule 3 specifies all documents , correspondence and memoranda relating to any accounts or assets , owned or controlled by the first 16 defendants , and to their dealings with the assets of the defendants or the sums described in Schedule 1 . |
| 3 | The change in gastric acid secretion , between basal acid secretion and stimulated acid secretion , that occurred during the first 30 minutes after sham feeding was compared with the change in urine acid output ( DUAO ) over the same period . |
| 4 | Such expansion in a small business is particularly dangerous at this stage of its development in terms of potential survival given the number of small firms that fail in the first two years . |
| 5 | They were aged 75 years and were seen and treated within the first 4 hours of the onset of symptoms . |
| 6 | Grades 2 and 3 indicate patency of the infarct related vessel and were found mostly in these 50 patients seen and treated within the first 4 hours after the onset of symptoms who received the 100 mg rt-PA . |
| 7 | Using a rate of discount of 10% per annum ( 0.027% per day ) implies that the expected duration of a job is about 1.3 years if accepted in the first three months of the unemployment spell and three years if accepted later ( see footnote 3 ) . |
| 8 | Andrew Gallagher on the right wing , beat two tackles and scored in the first five minutes of the game , following a neat Jeremy Hastings pick-up . |
| 9 | If anything it is the managers in family health services authorities and the NHS who have failed to anticipate and plan for the first three of these contingencies that has caused the current workload crisis . |
| 10 | THE TREATMENT OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE , LEARNING AND TEACHING DURING THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF A NEW BACHELOR OF EDUCATION DEGREE . |
| 11 | But the development of a child 's body and mind in the first three years of life is absolutely vital — any stunting of growth in these years can not be made up for in later life . |
| 12 | Rubella is the most serious maternal infection and can cause severe mental and physical damage if contracted during the first 16 weeks of pregnancy . |
| 13 | Grazing groups receive aid based on the number of livestock managed in common and paid over the first 3 years after being set up ; amounts range from 144FF to 370FF per livestock unit ( c. £12.50-£32. 17 ) , the higher rates payable to the groups with least livestock units . |
| 14 | Debt-laden disco operator European Leisure is suspending dividend payments as it struggles to service bank loans in the face of heavy debts and the recession.The group is still in the black but trading in the first two months of the year has been ‘ difficult and stable ’ . |
| 15 | I recalled that in the New Testament , in the life of Jesus as written in the first four books , there were many psychic happenings . |
| 16 | To do this , the cases are reordered so that the X values are in order , as shown in the first two columns of figure 10.6 . |
| 17 | Adverse currency movements in Brazil and a worse result in Puerto Rico also contributed to the increased deficit , although the latter showed some improvement in the second quarter when compared to the first three months of the year . |
| 18 | Their only rule of religious , moral and social life was the Law of Moses as found in the first five books of the Old Testament ( called the Pentateuch or the Torah ) . |