Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] the first three " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only once in the last ten years , in 1983 , have we been placed in the first three . |
| 2 | The charities to benefit have been nominated by the first three teams competing for the Clayton Trophy . |
| 3 | But , by transforming , progress has also been made towards the first three goals : the batches are more symmetrical and bell-shaped , and some of the outliers in the original batch were not really unusual values , but merely a product of the upward straggle of the raw numbers . |
| 4 | The data , the smoothed values and the residuals are shown in the first three columns of figure 9.7 . |
| 5 | Medals will be awarded to the first three home in each category . |
| 6 | The church councils which were called in the first three decades of the fifteenth century gave each side reason and opportunity to seek support for its own attitude to the war before the remainder of Christendom . |
| 7 | However , in April 1990 a government statement revealed that an intensified campaign against the guerrillas had led to 10 rocket attacks being foiled and five members of the Islamic Jihad organization being arrested in the first three months of the year . |
| 8 | Seventy thousand retail jobs were axed in the first three months of this year . |
| 9 | The moods and emotions of each were expressed in the first three movements . |
| 10 | This is shown in the first three columns of figure 8.6 . |
| 11 | This is shown in the first three columns of Figure 1.8 . |
| 12 | The start time is given in VMS absolute time format : dd-mmm-yyyy hh:mm:ss.cc where omitted fields default to system date and time ; month is abbreviated to the first three letters ( uppercase ) . |
| 13 | This is where the market research which is analysed in the first three parts of the planning cycle can help . |
| 14 | The carpenter , the " " riche gnof " " , is mentioned in the first three lines but the narration moves swiftly on to the portrait of Nicholas . |
| 15 | In addressing this issue , Bentham foreshadowed , inter alia , both the work on orthodox organisation and management theory which was developed in the first three decades of this century ( Hume , 1981 p 6 ) and that on space planning which has followed ( Lipman et al , 1978 ) . |
| 16 | When the National Insurance Act was introduced in 1911 it also provided sickness benefits of 10s. per week for men , 7s. 6d. for women ( because their loss of earnings during sickness was lower than that of men ) for the first thirteen weeks of sickness , although nothing was paid for the first three days , the aim being to help long-rather than trivial short-term sickness ; 5s. per week was paid to men and women for the following thirteen weeks . |