Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's current-account deficit shrank to £192m ( $377m ) in February ; the 12-month visible-trade deficit fell below $30 billion for the first time since mid-1988 . |
| 2 | And so this will be bringing it together world wide for the first time . |
| 3 | After shrinking slightly over the past few years , the gap grew to nearly $10 billion during the first four months of this year , up from a little over $6 billion for the same period in 1990 . |
| 4 | That is about £2 billion for the first five years . |
| 5 | In 1986 , the Secretary of State for the Environment , Nicholas Ridley , announced the creation of four more UDCs ( see Figure 2 , p. xii ) , each expected to spend about £150 million in the first five years of their existence . |
| 6 | " Last year our friends and allies provided the bulk of the economic costs of Desert Shield , and having now received commitments of over $40,000 million for the first three months of 1991 , I am confident that they will do no less as we move through Desert Storm . |
| 7 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |