Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in the first [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This small but experienced professional force , the BEF , was , however , largely destroyed in the first four months of the war . |
| 2 | The earliest record for spring arrival is of one at Chidham on 23 March 1971 , but arrival always starts in the first 10 days of April , and some movement continues to mid-June . |
| 3 | The general education element is usually concentrated in the first two years ( 'lower division' ) of the four-year course , and takes the form either of distribution requirements which ensure that students cover a certain range of subjects , or else a common course organized around certain themes or topics , such as the ‘ Great Books ’ course or Boyer 's ( 1987 ) suggested ‘ integrated core ’ ( language , art , heritage , institutions , nature , work , identity ) . |
| 4 | The distinctive nature of nature research is also captured in the first three papers of 10C , examining issues of theory and methods , including a very readable paper on ‘ getting started ’ . |
| 5 | And perhaps this is just as well , for were it not so , and were we to believe that personality became irreversibly set in the first two ( or three , or five ) years of life we should have to believe , first , that any child harmed then was beyond help and thus clinically not worth bothering about ; and , second , that children in later years were not vulnerable and that experience then was of no consequence . |
| 6 | This was the activity with which they came to be most closely identified in the first fifty years of their existence . |