Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the first [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The risk of death is high for the first year of life , falls sharply to reach a minimum during the teens then climbs , especially from middle age onwards . |
| 2 | O tonnes per day on-line in the first half of this year . |
| 3 | Mortality is relatively high in the first year of life and then decreases during childhood ( see Table 3.1 ) . |
| 4 | Although what is and is not acceptable in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist changes from minute to minute . |
| 5 | The gloomsters have been proved wrong on the first part of the operation . |
| 6 | However , Ada had made it clear at the first round of talks that the commission had no power to negotiate changes , which had to be approved by referendum . |
| 7 | Alpine days stay reasonably warm for the first half of the month . |
| 8 | Housing benefit is not payable for the first £16.25 of rent outside London or £23.45 of rent within London for any student . |
| 9 | Humphrey Lyttelton recounts : ‘ We brought along with us a strong contingent from Camberwell Art School , and John Minton , now recognised as a distinguished painter , was among the most formidable and dangerous of the first school of dancers . ’ |
| 10 | Implicitly it is consistent with the first stage of a two-stage budgeting procedure , with investors initially deciding on the level of investment in a particular location and then determining the asset allocation of that investment . |
| 11 | That figural designs began to occur in the west in any numbers ( i.e. not counting the very early example from Exeter : Bidwell 1979 ) in approximately the same period as a further development of figural design is apparent in the southeast , is an interesting possibility : this may also have been contemporary with the first appearance of fully centralised designs . |
| 12 | And they , I do n't know what you 'll think , but they reckon they spend at least two to three days average in the first week of the new month purely doing new reports . |
| 13 | Powell , who is rated in the top fifteen in the country in his age group , used his size advantage to great effect in both matches , but it was particularly noticeable in the first set of the final , in which he powered his way into a 6–1 opening lead . |
| 14 | Firstly , H pylori with homogeneously distributed chromatinic and cytoplasmic content within the bacterial body ( Fig 1 ) , which was associated with all the patterns of epithelial state and was seen in all the examined ultrastructural sections ; this pattern , however , was prominent in the first pattern of contact with gastric epithelium presenting normal looking epithelial cells . |
| 15 | These fees which are PAYABLE at the FIRST MEETING of each year cover the Four meetings held during the year and MUST be paid whether attended or not . |
| 16 | The sense of failure that haloed his bowed head made Clare conscious for the first time of his identity as a person . |
| 17 | Fine for the first couple of weeks , but then there 's all that tedious paperwork . ’ |
| 18 | And as their noise surged , discordant as the first squall of wind on a calm day , Rain Morgan sensed a figure in the row behind her . |
| 19 | In Slatkin 's RCA recording , I was conscious in the first movement of Elgar 's poignant sense of an ideal world ( or relationship ) beyond his reach . |
| 20 | Girobank 's post-tax profit — calculated on a basis that does not take inflation into account — was £9million , unchanged on the first half of 1988 . |
| 21 | While one cuts with the peat iron [ Tarisker ] , the other stands catching the foot-square slabs of wet peat which are thrown flat for the first stage of drying . |
| 22 | Many of the people who were made redundant during the first wave of financial job losses in 1990 have found work in other fields . |
| 23 | This account , written by a foreigner in London during his travels through England , is a description of ‘ corpse dressing ’ current during the first quarter of the eighteenth century . |
| 24 | The omens for the new state were not encouraging in the first months of its existence . |
| 25 | Hence the long , much altered and much discussed passage beginning already mentioned on p. 85 ; and the ‘ spots of time ’ meditation to be discussed on pp. 134–9 — which is at the heart of Wordsworth 's concern with the use of the past , this too is already present in the first Part of the 1798–9 version , before being moved to its present position in the longer texts . |
| 26 | They can hardly be very late in the first half of the sixth century . |
| 27 | In this Update , we hear from some of those who have been involved in the first year of the general SVQ pilot : students , teachers , lecturers , and trainers , as well as senior staff in colleges , schools , and training centres . |
| 28 | ‘ Sam Velerisms ’ , as they were called , which became the basis for ‘ Sam Wellerisms ’ , were famous in the period 1831–6 , just prior to the first publication of The Pickwick Papers . |
| 29 | The machine , thirty feet long on the first floor of the new building had overheated . |
| 30 | In the country , it loads up and goes inert at the first sign of a corner . |