Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the first [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Domestic exports performed badly during the first half of 1990 , but growth in the re-export trade partly compensated . |
| 2 | Researchers always warn ‘ beginner ’ researchers of the dangers of being tempted into data analysis prematurely , eg as the first flow of questionnaires returning slows . |
| 3 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 4 | On the other side of the energy account book is the surface energy , 2 G.l , which is needed to form the new surfaces and clearly this increases only as the first power of the depth of the crack . |
| 5 | Almost 2,000 knives and other blades have been handed in during the first fortnight of the month-long amnesty . |
| 6 | Although the authorities in the UK have sought to control interest rates by their operations in the discount market , this relates much more to Figure 18.4 than Figure 18.5 , especially during the first part of the 1980s . |
| 7 | One of the original group , Crest Homes , has now decided to go it alone for the first stage of the project . |
| 8 | The research by Yorkshire TV paid off last Sunday when 18 million tuned in for the first episode of A Touch of Frost . |
| 9 | Anna Freud ( 1943 , 1960 ) , who had been one of the first to call attention to the emotional difficulties of small children separated from their mothers , attacked from yet another angle , affirming the emotional need , not only in the baby but in his mother , to be together during the first weeks of the child 's life , and criticizing maternity hospital practice that separated the two . |
| 10 | The oral phase occurs in about the first year of a child 's life . |
| 11 | However , climbing sports differ from true climbers in that invariably they do not bloom until the second year wood , and then only on side shoots , and seldom repeat much after the first burst of bloom during June . |
| 12 | Either through this , or through their exercise of coercive powers , the great landed nobility were able to minimize damage to their incomes in the first twenty years or so after the first onset of the plague . |
| 13 | Gael , who is not religious , holds only with the first half of the double limerick according to which existence depends on being the object of another 's perception . |
| 14 | Bangor 's new coach Duncan Dysart was happy enough with the first sight of his charges last week and he will have a good opportunity to identify some grey areas when they make the trip to a high-scoring City of Derry tomorrow . |
| 15 | The period of time when acceptance becomes possible seems to link in with the first anniversary of events . |
| 16 | Later readers were often puzzled by the references to ‘ stations ’ at a time long before the first arrival of the railway in Cumbria . |
| 17 | In addition , the two-tier pricing system allowed US domestic industry to purchase oil well below world market prices ( some 40 per cent below in the first half of 1979 ) . |
| 18 | The coalmining industry has been a major symbol of the differences between the two main political parties of post-war Great Britain : the Labour party , with its firm commitment — especially in the first decades of the period — to public ownership of the ‘ commanding heights of the economy ’ , and the Conservative party and its much greater ( and increasing from the mid-1970s on ) commitment to free market operations with minimal state interference , let alone ownership . |
| 19 | Consequently decreased mortality among all ages ( but especially in the first year of life ) , together with a long-term reduction in fertility , have combined to produce an ageing population structure . |
| 20 | Bridget Hill has remarked that what constituted marriage among the eighteenth-century lower orders was " anything but clearly defined " , especially in the first half of the century before the passing of Hardwicke 's Marriage Act . |
| 21 | This met with some opposition , for there were those who regarded music with suspicion because of its ‘ human ’ origins and its consequent unworthiness for the offering of pure worship , Nevertheless , hymns grew in favour in succeeding years and especially in the first part of the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | But perhaps the most punishing — and undeserved — losses had been suffered by von Zwehl 's VII Reserve Corps , which had done so brilliantly in the first days of the battle . |
| 23 | Wednesday , 3–1 down from the first leg of this UEFA Cup tie , went about their work impressively . |
| 24 | His assertion that the problem remains and is handed down from the first generation of Homo sapiens to the present one in the institutions of religion and art seems to be , prima facie , very plausible . |
| 25 | Investment in mainland China continued to grow , with US$540,000,000 flowing to Fujian province alone in the first quarter of 1990 . |
| 26 | I thought I might go ; perhaps in the first week of the holiday . ’ |
| 27 | The level of British farming declined sharply and it was only in the first decade of the twentieth century that it began to get on its feet again by shifting its emphasis to specialities like beef-fattening and vegetable-growing . |
| 28 | Only in the first innings of the third Test in Bombay did England score more than 300 , while in the first two they were forced to follow on . |
| 29 | This example of evaluation is related to the parameters laid down in the first part of the chapter . |
| 30 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |