Example sentences of "[prep] the first [noun pl] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 2 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 3 | Most Germans were in expectant but uneasy mood during the first months of 1940 . |
| 4 | It saw a slight recovery of demand for its products by the end of 1992 and during the first months of 1993 . |
| 5 | According to Western reports , during the first months of 1990 the Khmers Rouges increased their infiltration of fighters and supplies from their border camps into Cambodia proper . |
| 6 | Between the first halves of 1972 and 1973 output rose by 7 per cent and industrial production by 10 per cent . |
| 7 | Seventeen years later , then Flight Lieutenant Reif , he flew as one of the first navigators in 2 Squadron Canberras when that unit deployed to South Vietnam in April 1967 . |
| 8 | In 1984 , the first SCE Standard grade courses started to replace O grades in Scotland , with the first examinations in 1986 . |
| 9 | They suggested that the unified courses could be offered from 1983 , with the first exams in 1985 . |
| 10 | By the early 1640s she had moved to London and begun a religious quest in pursuit of whose ends she became involved with the first Quakers in 1654 . |
| 11 | However , their history , from the first appointments in 1839 , has been one of constant change and adaptation . |
| 12 | The metropolitan areas in England were contested on party lines from the first elections in 1973 . |
| 13 | This did not get under way until 1943 , took in the first students in 1944 and produced its first teachers in 1946 . |
| 14 | In the early hours , in the first hours of 1980 , gossip spread . |
| 15 | In the first months of 1858 conservatives at the centre proposed the reinstatement of Nicholas I 's " personal " principle . |
| 16 | In the first months of 1950 both the British service chiefs and many influential figures in Washington complained that too little was being done to combat the communist threat in the Cold War . |
| 17 | The lira depreciated sharply in the first months of 1991 , however , falling 30 per cent against the US dollar between February and May . |
| 18 | The only practical problem at the time was that I would have to take the orchestra on its American tour in the first months of 1955 at a time when I was contracted to conduct a new Ring cycle at La Scala , Milan . |
| 19 | In the first months of 1945 , the German people regarded itself as Hitler 's gain victim . |
| 20 | For 133 days in 1988 Lyle had led the US Money List , he had won the Phoenix , Greensboro and Masters titles and in the first months of 1989 he twice came second . |
| 21 | In the first months of 1993 the firm announced a string of other contracts in Siberia and the Urals . |
| 22 | In short , progress in the first years after 1957 was sufficiently gratifying to all who had backed the formation of the EEC , and sufficient to oblige other states to take more account of it . |
| 23 | By the first months of nineteen forty one , there were ten thousand women in the armed services . |
| 24 | The event was marked by the first issues of two new newspapers , the MDP 's Democracy and the Mirror of the umbrella organization Mongolian Democratic Union ( MDU ) . |