Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Larger , ‘ executive ’ cars are poorer value to buy new , because their value drops so sharply in the first few years . |
| 2 | So even in the first exploratory or formative phase , when human values were largely suppressed , the Cubism of Picasso and Braque was in some ways an expression of the private life and experience of the painter . |
| 3 | Having played so well for the first two rounds and then the first three holes of the third , by which time he was tieing for the lead with Parry at 10 under par , Woosnam came to grief immediately after the Saturday storm . |
| 4 | Just two miles from the German forward positions , the Mort Homme seemed hardly beyond the scope of a determined thrust — especially when it was recalled that the Fifth Army had advanced three times as far during the first four days alone on the Right Bank . |
| 5 | She come downstairs well not for the first half hour . |
| 6 | We find that : ( i ) there is disutility from being unemployed , with individuals disliking unemployment even more after the first three months ; ( ii ) unemployment benefits have no effect on the behaviour of the unemployed individuals after the first three months ; ( iii ) income receipts other than unemployment benefits and earnings have only a very small effect ; ( iv ) the conditional probability of leaving the unemployment spell shows no sign of decreasing with duration for most of the members of our sample , while 50% of the teenage men have an increasing hazard ; ( v ) the effects of unemployment benefits on the expected duration varies with age ; the average elasticity of 0.12 is much smaller than those estimated by NNS and NN , who used the same data set but different models . |
| 7 | Paper and packaging group Bunzl added a penny to 145p after the group pushed profits strongly ahead in the first six months of the year . |
| 8 | Paper and packaging group Bunzl added a penny to 144p after the group pushed profits strongly ahead in the first six months of the year . |
| 9 | And the Northern Ireland International surprisingly finding himself in the clear twice already in the first five minutes , although that was er obviously not a chance . |
| 10 | For example , outbreeding is much more likely to occur than brother-sister incest because of the apparently innate rule that individuals raised closely together during the first six years of life are inhibited from full sexual intercourse at maturity . |
| 11 | The boys and their uneasy pastor were moving tidily enough into the first green enclosure which must be the frigidarium of the baths , emerging in little , bulbous groups from between the broken walls of the entrance . |
| 12 | He will learn very quickly after the first stressful period when he leaves his litter-mates . |
| 13 | ‘ He just could be Ángel 's father , ’ he added , gathering up his things and starting back down the slope , scree-walking very fast over the first long patch of loose grey stones , swinging his pack , and the empty sleeve flapping against his hip . |
| 14 | We have met that very well in the first nine months of the system . |
| 15 | Once I know how fast my ‘ feeder is emptying , or have made it empty at the pace I require , I cast very frequently for the first twenty minutes or so — as fast as the emptying of the ‘ feeder will allow — and then slow down only just enough to keep a steady trickle of feed through the swim . |