Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [conj] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historically local government in England and Wales is a fascinating subject and from its study it will be found that local government whilst not quite as we know it today , existed for centuries before the first parliament was ever convened . |
| 2 | In fact , both were deposited many millions of years before the first pine tree grew on earth . |
| 3 | It has an impressive list of collaborators and the first year 's course has been fully subscribed . |
| 4 | Adoption of workplans and the first call for proposals should follow soon after , and first contracts could be signed by November 1991 . |
| 5 | He was the editor of the Review of Churches and the first tour which he organized was in 1893 when he took a party of 450 people to Rome for Easter . |
| 6 | The 1968 Act was to be a short , simple measure , a fresh start , free from technicalities and the first step towards codification of the criminal law . |