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Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the first [conj] " in BNC.

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1	The Blackpool Tramway is rightly claimed as the first and last street tramway and unique in many other ways .
2	Built in Hellenistic times this market place was greatly enlarged in the first and second centuries A.D. to become one of the largest in the Roman world .
3	When we are developing an artist on an international basis , success does n't necessarily happen in the first or second album .
4	That goal was a little rough on St Johnstone , who had chances during the second half , though the best came in the first when Harry Curran threaded a pass through to Vinny Arkins .
5	All three comital functions are documented in Charles the Bald 's reign , though royal instructions have a good deal more to say about the first and second than about the third .
6	The chapter/section idea(s) : these will be much more concrete , are usually expressed in the first and/or last paragraphs and should be seen as a part of the wider themes/theses of the book .
7	Having re-evaluated one statement we must re-evaluate some others , which may be statements logically connected with the first or may be the statements of logical connections themselves .
8	‘ Bath , ladies and gentlemen , is the site of a Roman spa , Aquae Sulis , probably built in the first and second centuries AD .
9	For covalent compounds , a prefix is often added to the first and-or second name to indicate the ratio of atoms in the compound .
10	Since , for the purpose of this exercise , we are supposing that the December 1983 and November 1985 rates are unknown , we simply copy on the first and last values , 40 and 55 , for January 1984 and October 1985 .
11	The second lecture , closely connected with the first and , like the first , closing with a portentous allusion to contemporary music drama , was given at the beginning of February , and dealt with the mysterious " death " of tragedy at the end of the fifth century .