Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , I remember a great many rehearsals , sixty or seventy each for the first performances of the Bach or the Beethoven . |
| 2 | During his four years in office the Association 'S branches numbered more than one hundred for the first time , and he was constantly visiting them and planning new ones . |
| 3 | By the end of her first term in office the Australian War Cry was reporting that all but one of the forty nine students at the training college had passed their final exam and that twenty eight of the first year students had become Salvationists and eight had applied to be officers . |
| 4 | They raised a total of 6.9 billion in 1991 and 4.5 billion in the first half of 1992 . |
| 5 | That brings it down to a hundred and ninety six for the first year . |
| 6 | For this care I award forty thousand pounds per year and take as a multiplier the figure three to give a sum of one hundred and twenty thousand for the first period . |