Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people running the country were the great landowners and bureaucrats of the old empire , who were themselves a class mainly created by the large-scale bankruptcies of the lesser gentry in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | On taking out an annual subscription ( for which the usual fee is £22 , plus an additional £5 for the first year enrolment ) , Ideal Home Subscribers will receive a copy of the Royal Horticultural Society Address Book , worth £8.99 , absolutely free . |
| 3 | The 1961 Census presented small-area statistics for the first time , repeated at a 10 per cent sample for 1966 . |
| 4 | The study ‘ predicted ’ 1.09 deaths ( meaning about one ) among Tory MPs in the first year of the parliament , and 1.54 in the second year . |
| 5 | Nor is it their job , 'cause they do n't really give a fuck about black people in the first place , you know ? ’ |
| 6 | On the negative side press reports indicated that the cost of the programme during the first half of 1990 had been a massive rise in unemployment ( from an official 6,000 at the end of 1989 to 568,000 ) ; a 30 per cent fall in output ; a 25 per cent drop in industrial sales in the first quarter ( in comparison with the same period in 1989 ) ; and an estimated 30 per cent drop in living standards , as real incomes slumped by around 35 per cent and 90 per cent of prices were freed ( following the abolition of subsidies ) to find their market level . |
| 7 | His truly phenomenal and technique and poetic incandescence prompt even the most blasé listener to feel that they are hearing familiar works for the first time . |
| 8 | Their contact will probably have been very superficial , and immediate reactions , especially on meeting severely handicapped people for the first time , ones of alarm . |
| 9 | Coming onto a new series for the first time could be a daunting prospect even to the acting profession 's hardy perennials . |
| 10 | We have a new series for the first time breeder by Jane van Lennep taken from her superb new book First Foal . |