Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] for [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 22nd the market reacted by falling a further 3.1% , which took the Nikkei index below 30,000 for the first time since December 1988 to close at 29,843 . |
| 2 | As investors and the better-paid alike give thanks for their deliverance , that most essential and intangible ingredient for economic recovery — confidence — is suddenly present for the first time in three years . |
| 3 | A one-point rise in Japan 's discount rate pushed Tokyo below 31,000 for the first time since January 1989 ; during the week it lost 5.6% . |
| 4 | There are also a few records for January , but only two for the first half of February . |
| 5 | Housing benefit is not payable for the first £16.25 of rent outside London or £23.45 of rent within London for any student . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm expecting him to report and , with five matches in the next four weeks , any player who is not fit for the first game will not necessarily miss the rest of them , ’ said Taylor . |
| 7 | It is generally longer for a first baby and may take around 1620 hours . |
| 8 | She 's not young for a first baby , of course , but she 's getting plenty of good food , so should soon get built up . ’ |
| 9 | Not bad for the first day , she thought with a sense of satisfaction as she washed her hands and tucked in a few strands of escaping hair . |
| 10 | Alpine days stay reasonably warm for the first half of the month . |
| 11 | Being in practice is also important for a first flight in a new and unfamiliar type of aircraft . |
| 12 | It 's also important for the first time buyer . |
| 13 | He was collecting for over forty years and , as Miller was a regular recipient of Bartram 's shipments , it can be assumed that ‘ a large proportion of plants credited to Miller as introducer consisted of collections by Bartram and if this is true he was probably responsible for the first appearance in the gardens of England of between one hundred and fifty and two hundred plants ’ ( John Hendley Barnhart , ‘ Significance of John Bartram 's Work to Botanical and Horticultural Knowledge ’ , Bartonia Special Issue , 1931 ) . |
| 14 | Although the excavators have warned that these dates are only a broad indication of that of the complex and segmented line which is this phase of the Danevirke as a whole , they nevertheless believe that in a period of danger from Germany Harald rebuilt the central section , and was also responsible for the first phases of the flanking lines to east and west . |
| 15 | It is curious that it should have happened , that Michel came upon the scene the very instant she was really free for the first time in her life . |
| 16 | To his pleasant surprise he discovered that he was now able to think with an objective clarity which stemmed from the knowledge that he was now free for the first time in his life to speak his mind without fear or favour . |
| 17 | For Swindon it was shooting practice young Marcus Phillips on as sub for the first time nearly got a goal but it was Torquay who tookover towards the end … |
| 18 | In addition its PC-NFS Advanced Telnet software for terminal emulation is now available for the first time in 10- , 25- , 100- and 500-user packs with prices ranging from $1,600 to $49,500 . |
| 19 | Such essential measures as library expenditure per student , per capita computing costs , and many other management data , are now available for the first time in published form , so that universities can see at a glance how they measure up to similar institutions . |
| 20 | RIVER CROSSENS : Good fishery but often slow for the first week or so until fish located . |
| 21 | A new room for the study of the 7,000-or-so drawings and 27,000 prints which make up the Courtauld collection will make these works widely available for the first time . |
| 22 | She felt triumphantly free for the first time in her life . |
| 23 | A sense of self-preservation cautioned her not to stick around , and before he could react she sprinted up to the house , feeling strangely exhilarated for the first time since she had left England . |
| 24 | This is quite normal for a first treatment , Eileen reassured me , as toxins such as caffeine and E-numbers are eliminated . |
| 25 | Prost had come cheap — virtually free for the first year — and Niki had re-signed for a very large sum indeed . |
| 26 | On Oct. 15 the Mar Mikha'il-Galerie Sim'an and the Dar al-Wahsh-Alayh crossing points were re-opened , making the Beirut-Damascus highway fully passable for the first time since 1985 . |
| 27 | First , get a copy of your local quarter mill map ( preferably laminated ) and find a suitable road-route running for about 25 to 40 miles ( quite sufficient for a first attempt ) from somewhere close to your base airfield . |
| 28 | What the Saxon invasion did primarily was to reorganise most of Sussex as a distinct political unit , firmly independent for the first time since the Regni . |
| 29 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |
| 30 | And I was very upset for the first day , then I started settling down . |