Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] the first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is 2 years since the first edition of this booklet was printed and during this time there has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of LM potencies . |
| 2 | Instead an eclectic approach has been taken , highlighting some of the more significant work that has been done in the five years since the first edition of this book was published . |
| 3 | As we have attempted in our previous books on further education succinctly to summarize the chief characteristics of the polytechnics , we intend therefore to restrict ourselves to a discussion of the ways in which they have developed in the three years since the first edition of this book was written . |
| 4 | His gallantry in the ensuing conflict won him the MC , but he was killed while crossing the Sambre and Oise canal near Ors in the early morning of 4 November — one week before the armistice , and two years before the first volume of his work was published . |
| 5 | A RUINED castle is to be rebuilt , 750 years after the first brick of its historic predecessor was laid on the banks of the River Mersey . |
| 6 | Baggy welts , ugly v-necks , that grubby line caused by the carriage rubbing against the side of the front which was held on the needles while the first side of the front neck was being knitted … |
| 7 | Rugs , clothing , mielies , were tossed on top of the buses while the first load of passengers were still trying to reach their luggage . |
| 8 | Rangers have five wins and two draws from their games since the first round of the European Cup in September and respond to the fact that opposing teams are keener to attack them in that competition than they are in the Premier Division . |
| 9 | A total of 59 meetings had been held between Boutros-Ghali and the two leaders since the first round of talks began in July based on a " Set of Ideas " put forward by Boutros-Ghali [ see p. 39067 ] . |
| 10 | Over the next ten years , financed by such wealthy aristocrats as the first Duke of Westminster and the first Baron Mount-Temple [ qq.v . ] , |