Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | When seen in hospital she was far less depressed than on the first occasion and did not feel she needed further help . |
| 2 | The entrance to the " opportunity garden " is less obvious than in the first drawing . |
| 3 | The vistas on this route are no less impressive than on the first one . |
| 4 | SSP is not payable if on the first day of the PIW your employee : |
| 5 | Eventually , during my evolutionary wanderings through Biomorph Land — the sense of triumph was scarcely less than on the first occasion — I finally cornered them again . |
| 6 | Language work in the final year is more specialized than in the first two years and includes translation and précis writing in administrative , technical and commercial registers of the languages , as well as some interpreting . |
| 7 | His voice had deepened , the words becoming more guttural as for the first time since she 'd met him he seemed to struggle with a language which was not his own . |
| 8 | Lucy listened to the repeated message with her heart in her mouth , and , hearing it again , the voice sounded even more arrogant than during the first recording . |
| 9 | The situation was slightly better than in the first half of the 1980s , when more power stations were cancelled than entered service , but those under construction all dated from orders placed at the beginning of the 1970s . |
| 10 | ‘ The overall results are slightly worse than for the first three months of 1992 , with definite signs of the recessionary effect becoming widespread nationally , ’ said Manpower spokeswoman Lilian Bennett . |
| 11 | Very large crowds attended on the Friday , although not as vast as on the first day . |
| 12 | In the second phase assets affected were worth 25,000 million forints ( as at March 23 , 1992 , US$1.00=89.5858 forints ; there had been 1.9 per cent devaluation on March 16 ) , three times as much as in the first phase . |
| 13 | Parrott is lively too , but the performances are gentler , and his often slower speeds-as in the first chorus of the Birthday Ode with its call to ‘ Celebrate this triumphant day'-bring out the dancing rhythms less infectiously . |
| 14 | I was n't sure until after the first preview . |