Example sentences of "[noun pl] a [noun sg] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power available from the hydroelectric station will be at least 800 MW , eight hours a day for the first 20 years , thereafter falling by about 30 per cent . |
| 2 | I think I could pay you two shillings a week for the first year and we 'd have to see how things went . |
| 3 | Louis Gerstner clearly decided that discretion was the better part of valour when it came to facing the blue rinse brigade at the annual meeting in Tampa , Florida yesterday , and just before the meeting , IBM Corp announced that its diminished dividend would be unchanged at 54 cents a share for the first quarter ; there had been fears that the company would cut it again . |
| 4 | Sun disappointed some people last Thursday by posting income of only five cents a share for the first quarter ended September 25 . |
| 5 | She did five episodes a week for the first two years but then began to ease up after her record career began to take off . |