Example sentences of "[prep] the first three [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This procedure is depicted above for the first three values of the repeated median smooth , shown in full in figure 9.9 : Thus 47 is the value to be smoothed , the skip mean 43.5 is the mean of 40 and 47 and the smoothed value 45.2 is the rounded mean of 47 and 43.5 . |
| 2 | For the first three centuries of its existence , until 751 , it was ruled over by a single family , that of the Merovingians . |
| 3 | In his travels , Arkle will be staffing the Scripture Union stand for the first three weeks of Spring Harvest at Minehead , where he hopes to spend some time with Frank Shayi , SU South Africa 's Fieldwork Director . |
| 4 | An elderly lady admitted crying every night for the first three weeks of her marriage because she missed her sister and widowed mother so much . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Terry Baughan , the financial director for both the Virgin Group and the airline , revealed that the airline had incurred a trading loss of £514,000 for the first three weeks of operation . |
| 7 | More than 680 homes were sold in January , rising to 750 for the first three weeks of this month . |
| 8 | For the first three days of her monthly period she is segregated in a solitary place and is not allowed to touch anybody or anything lest she pollutes it . |
| 9 | The sample size for the first three years of the Social Attitudes Survey was between 1700 and 1800 . |
| 10 | Results for the first three years of the experiment show that serious injury accidents fell by two-thirds and light injury accidents by one third . |
| 11 | N. lapillus grows for the first three years of its life ( but see p. 307 ) , and then usually marks the onset of sexual maturity by thickening the shell lip and laying down a row of white dentiform tubercles-usually known as " teeth " " -along the inside edge ( Fig. 17 ) . |
| 12 | Special educational needs was always a much more prominent aspect of the work of Phase 1 coordinators than of those in Phases 2 or 3 , and for the first three years of PNP SEN was the dominant coordinator task in Phase 1 . |
| 13 | In Mexico , the private sector was able to take advantage of the new seeds , but the peasants on ejido land , often unable to get credit and farming for the first three years without fertilisers were not so productive . |
| 14 | A typical use of one field would be as follows : for the first three years after conversion the field would be pasture , then three years of arable crops would be grown on it , such as wheat , barley and spring beans , then complete the rotation by turning the land over to pasture again . |
| 15 | I had no idea of doing anything else but study there for the first three years after school , for which my hardworking and frugal parents had saved enough money . |
| 16 | Technology classes were ‘ acceptable ’ for the first three years in primary school . |
| 17 | Table 4 supports the primacy effect as recall is significantly greater for the first three words in the list . |
| 18 | The Central Statistical Office has beefed up output figures for the first three quarters of 1992 , as a result of revised figures showing farm production in the first three quarters averaged 5 per cent more than originally estimated . |
| 19 | ‘ The overall results are slightly worse than for the first three months of 1992 , with definite signs of the recessionary effect becoming widespread nationally , ’ said Manpower spokeswoman Lilian Bennett . |
| 20 | Although the first two rounds of this year 's Davis Cup , one week after the Australian Open and then a week after Lipton , made it possible for him to fit them into his tournament programme for the first three months of the year when his number one ranking was under such threat , he says , ‘ The Davis Cup is certainly one of my priorities now . ’ |
| 21 | Indeed , for the first three months of his premiership lie performed a feat which had seemed remarkable even when Gladstone had last done it forty years before and retained the Chancellorship as well as being First Lord of the Treasury . |
| 22 | A Balinese child does not touch the ground for the first three months of life . |
| 23 | Figures we 've obtained for the first three months of this year show astonishing variations in cautioning rates across Kent . |
| 24 | " Last year our friends and allies provided the bulk of the economic costs of Desert Shield , and having now received commitments of over $40,000 million for the first three months of 1991 , I am confident that they will do no less as we move through Desert Storm . |
| 25 | On Jan. 29 Kohl promised a further DM8,300 million towards the US military campaign for the first three months of 1991 plus further military assistance to Turkey ( air defence missiles and 600-strong crew ) and to Israel . |
| 26 | On Jan. 26 Saudi Arabia announced that it would commit $13,500 million to US costs for the first three months of the war . |
| 27 | Fuller information is being prepared by the Finance Council and this will be issued in May when figures for the first three months of 1993 have been prepared by our financial auditors . |
| 28 | Consequently , you seem to have experienced a testing period in close personal ties and in joint financial arrangements , and during the first three weeks of April you will come to realise that a day of reckoning or a major upheaval was unavoidable . |
| 29 | The suckling pup may also be infected by ingestion of L3 in the milk during the first three weeks of lactation . |
| 30 | we may safely say that nothing so remarkable as the scene of Westminster-Hall during the first three days of this week , had ever been known of by architects . |