Example sentences of "[prep] the first [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French-language Film Festival taking place at Dublin 's Screen Cinema , College Street for the first two weeks in November has just announced details of a special screening of Louis Grospierre 's ‘ Fatal Lovers ’ , a film shot entirely in the beautiful surrounds of Connemara . |
| 2 | First and second gear are nearly impossible to shift up and down , or from third to second for the first two miles in winter . |
| 3 | THE COMBINED Birmingham Railway Museum and Birmingham Mail ‘ Santa Specials ’ were enjoying good publicity and seat booking for the first two Sundays in December . |
| 4 | For the first two years in government we will concentrate resources on the essential tasks of combating unemployment and poverty … |
| 5 | For the first four Mondays in the month a walk will set off at 10.30am from Plas y Brenin National Mountain Centre ( GR 1718579 ) . |
| 6 | The pension can be drawn in full for the first eight weeks in hospital , after which your parent will be notified that it will be reduced by a few pounds ( for the exact amount of the reduction see the current issue of leaflet NI9 ) . |
| 7 | Prince Charles argued that they should be brought up initially by Mabel Anderson , his childhood nanny , and then a governess employed to educate the boys for the first few years in the privacy of Kensington Palace . |
| 8 | Technology classes were ‘ acceptable ’ for the first three years in primary school . |
| 9 | Table 4 supports the primacy effect as recall is significantly greater for the first three words in the list . |
| 10 | For the first 30 days in Nepal bank exchange receipts for $20 a day are no longer required to obtain a trekking permit . |
| 11 | Quinton and Rutter ( 1983 ) quote a figure of fifty or more parent figures during the first five years in a residential nursery as being common . |
| 12 | TECHNIQUEST is a major tourist attraction — with over 150,000 visitors during the first 18 months in Cardiff Bay . |
| 13 | Sale starts during the first two weeks in January . |
| 14 | During the first few weeks in a Home everyone concerned with the resident , and of course the resident too , will be thinking about the best care for the person . |
| 15 | It is during the first few months in particular that these sorts of activities can affect the developing foetus , producing babies that may be premature , and with a low birth weight . |
| 16 | Planetary activity in Taurus during the first ten days in May will give your personal affairs or morale a marvellous boost , but after that complications will arise . |
| 17 | During the first 24 hours in hospital , he had three sustained episodes of ventricular tachycardia , at a rate of 200 per minute , associated with circulatory collapse and syncope . |
| 18 | The mean values were considerably increased above the corresponding reference intervals during the first three days in the intensive care unit . |
| 19 | ‘ My mum is a bit upset , ’ says Zara , ‘ but we had a lovely letter from Mr Evans saying that he would pay for me to return home at any time during the first three months in England , which we were very grateful for . ’ |
| 20 | It can be seen that there is an initial 20% mortality during the first three months in those randomised to surgery , with virtually no further deaths occurring during the next 24 months . |
| 21 | So I learnt about the Greeks and Romans , and about Christ , and about the first white men in America and the sad story of the Indians . |
| 22 | Crawford was seen in Play for Today after the first two episodes in the final series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em had already been shown . |
| 23 | It is after the first few years in employment that the profiles diverge dramatically and again the male/female contrast is vivid . |
| 24 | The island supports a lighthouse , unmanned since the 1930s , and one of the first automatic stations in the Trinity House Group . |
| 25 | Er , well , the extra costs was two million a year er , and at the end of the first six months in the first year we 'd , we 'd , we 'd achieved a million extra revenue , so it looks as if we 've paid for it . |
| 26 | With a dry wit and an infectious Brooklyn drawl , Karen , as part of the Flatbush-based Soulboys group of club-runners , was responsible for some of the first illegal parties in New York , as well as having the much-coveted job of doorperson at various Manhattan clubs . |
| 27 | unc It is readily checked , in view of ( 3 ) et seq. , that he product of the first two terms in ( 5 ) is R2 , of the first three is R3 , and so on . |
| 28 | From the time of the first Slav settlements in the seventh century until the Second World War Macedonia has always been a meeting place of contrasting cultures and a cockpit of rival political ambitions . |
| 29 | The Gulf crisis had an immediate negative effect on the economy , reversing the strong growth of the first eight months in all sectors , denting local business confidence , causing the cancellation of large-scale development projects and provoking the flight abroad of capital estimated at 20 per cent of all bank deposits . |
| 30 | Her parents have done well ; her father became one of the first Afro-Caribbean councillors in inner London . |