Example sentences of "[prep] [art] first [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind a grid , there is strong turbulent energy production for the first ten or so grid mesh-lengths along the tunnel ; the turbulence then becomes substantially isotropic and decays with distance down the tunnel . |
| 2 | Actually there are many stars with proper names , but in general these are used only for the first 30 or so , plus a few fainter stars of special interest — such as Polaris , Mizar in the Great Bear , and the variable star Mira , in Cetus , the Whale . |
| 3 | The Fabians were particularly influential during the first forty or so years of their history , a period in which the leading lights were the Webbs , G. B. Shaw , Graham Wallas , and H. G. Wells and , less consistently , Bertrand Russell , G. D. H. Cole , Harold Laski , and R. H. Tawney . |
| 4 | Moreover , quite often the third phrase repeats the melodic shape of the first two and frequently there are rifts — often of traditional or clichéd types — in the instrumental accompaniment . |
| 5 | We found in the first covert and then twice more , I ca n't remember so many good runs in a day before , not all at once . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps 80% of subject search sessions are short and successful , the searcher being satisfied by one or two apparently relevant items in the first dozen or so . |
| 7 | We know the answers to the first two and possibly the third as well . |
| 8 | The indications are , therefore , that Offa was engaged fairly intensively against the Welsh across the first twenty-five or so years of his reign and this may have prevented him from pursuing Mercian interests in eastern and south-eastern England too vigorously before the mid-780s . |