Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the first and " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Bath , ladies and gentlemen , is the site of a Roman spa , Aquae Sulis , probably built in the first and second centuries AD . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |