Example sentences of "[adv prt] for the first [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's a very good thing he 's been involved in the pre-tour training at Lilleshall and is going along for the first three weeks of the Indian tour to bowl in the nets . |
| 3 | That settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation . |
| 4 | That , that is , that is the way that they were chosen , and two years ago , I think , we put one point two million pounds in for the first seven schemes . |
| 5 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 6 | Now if you 've got somebody who you are protecting their family , and they 'll be paying that plan twenty five years or more , the fact that they pay commissions out for the first four years is immaterial , what they want is peace of mind and protection . |
| 7 | A dynamic study of the posterior lung fields was carried out for the first 15 minutes after injecting the radiolabelled leucocytes . |