Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ultimately , his change of pace and flight of the ball broke up the rhythm of Lee , who perhaps rather over pressed in the first set and found himself 0–5 down before he adjusted his momentum to claw four games back before Galasso 's touch and confidence returned , in what was for him a perfect final game and a match point won with a brilliant lob . |
| 2 | Postage and paperwork is a waster of the Association 's valuable resources which the membership does so much to create in the first place . |
| 3 | Why do they think trains are so hard to spot in the first place ? |
| 4 | If someone 's natural breathing is already shallow , that person is much more likely to panic in the first place . |
| 5 | Again , it is limited but it shows that an audit failure is three times as likely to occur in the first two years after a change in auditor as in subsequent years . |
| 6 | Egypt : Well Disuq-1 drilled in the first half of 1992 tested only sub-commercial quantities of gas . |
| 7 | ( If they sound a little harassed , please bear in mind that they are new to the system and so may take a little longer to respond in the first few weeks of live running . ) |
| 8 | It was relatively easy to do in the first years of the regime , with a war- and hunger-cowed populace , a subsistence-level economy , and a country cut off from the outside world . |