Example sentences of "[prep] the first [num] [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 Technology classes were ‘ acceptable ’ for the first three years in primary school .
8 Table 4 supports the primacy effect as recall is significantly greater for the first three words in the list .
9 For the first 30 days in Nepal bank exchange receipts for $20 a day are no longer required to obtain a trekking permit .
10 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 .
11 TECHNIQUEST is a major tourist attraction — with over 150,000 visitors during the first 18 months in Cardiff Bay .
12 Sale starts during the first two weeks in January .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 The mean values were considerably increased above the corresponding reference intervals during the first three days in the intensive care unit .
16 ‘ 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 . ’
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 The Whitemoor pit was one of the first three mines in Britain to reach a production figure of one million tonnes per year .
23 It is the dorsal ganglionic centre of the head ; its nerve-cells are almost entirely association neurons and it is formed by the coalescence of the first three neuromeres in the embryo .
24 11.1 Addition of the first three terms in the Fourier harmonic series representation of a square wave .
25 Bishop Auckland General Hospital was one of the first three units in the district to achieve its target and Erika Wallis , chairman of South West Durham Health Authority , paid tribute to consultants , nurses and staff for their ‘ commitment and hard work ’ .
26 On 26 March the junta decided that the invasion would take place on one of the first three days in April .
27 He lost five of the first seven holes in the afternoon and was in danger of going into the record books as Wentworth 's bloodiest casualty .
28 Lotus Esprit Turbos won four of the first seven races in the SCCA Escort series this season .
29 With that remark I took my leave and made my way through the orchard and onto the road leading to Brigade H.Q That evening as I lay in my trench I thought about the events of the first seven days in Normandy .
30 Nine of the first ten qualifiers in this year 's race were born outside the United States .
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