Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pam was there from the beginning , or at least from the first day of school . |
| 2 | So , art history only begins after the death of the work , but as long as the work lives , or at least in the first fifty years of its life , it communicates with people living in the same period who have accepted it or rejected it and who have talked about it . |
| 3 | If at all possible , answer these questions in the first sentence of the release or at least in the first paragraph . |
| 4 | Only a few , largely of the younger members , consider that at least for the first few years after an election , the House as a whole should keep a wary eye on the government and seek to support or influence its policy irrespective of the line taken by the official Opposition . |
| 5 | After wintering in London on they travelled in March 1572 up-country to Lancaster and from thence across the first part of the Morecambe Bay sands to their stop-over with the Prestons at Holker . |
| 6 | Between 1713 and 1763 they paid little attention to the colonies in America , and at least for the first half of the period it was hard to see what else could have been done . |