Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact Hounslow could find only eight players for the first match of the tournament and conceded 12 goals against England before the hard-working Hacker opened their account . |
| 2 | Smith , opening the innings , made 74 from only 53 deliveries in the first hour of the day , striking two sixes and 13 fours , before retiring to give someone else some practice . |
| 3 | In spite of only thirteen miles on the first day , nine on the second , a day 's rest at Adrar , and another here at Reggane , the average was still eighteen . |
| 4 | Yusupov had prepared an unusual opening variation : taking only six minutes over the first 14 moves , while Karpov used almost an hour . |
| 5 | Despite the fact that he was unable to begin the part of Sifare until 1 December when the singer arrived in Milan — only 25 days before the first scheduled performance — the première nevertheless took place , as planned , on 26 December , and the opera received another 21 performances that season . |
| 6 | Half the fleet had arrived by last night , including the joint services yacht Satquote British Defender , which was beaten for eighth place by only 37 minutes by the first of the three Finnish challengers , Martela OF . |
| 7 | There was to be only one preview before the first night . |
| 8 | In December 1981 the Secretary of State for the Environment threatened to activate these default powers in Norwich , where the Labour-controlled city council had sold only 250 properties in the first year of the Act . |
| 9 | Only four minutes into the first match against the New Zealand XV at Rugby Park in Hamilton the England ‘ B ’ side put together a scoring movement which had the New Zealand purists purring and suggested that England ‘ B ’ had gained much from their tour . |
| 10 | The UK had only four representatives in the first , prosperous , half of the list : Norwich ( 23 ) , Brighton ( 28 ) , London ( 34 ) and Leicester ( 35 ) . |
| 11 | John , enjoying only his second year in the sport , had some troubles in the 250cc class with his BSA in the wet conditions on Saturday and retired it after only two laps in the first race . |
| 12 | He took only two wickets in the first Test after leapfrogging Essex man Mark Ilott when Alan Igglesden pulled out injured , but had two catches dropped by Graeme Hick , including Mark Taylor early in his match-winning innings . |
| 13 | So far , Scotland have taken only two points from the first three games in Group I. |
| 14 | Scotland , therefore , are not without hope in spite of a disappointing start that brought only two points from the first three games . |
| 15 | He performed only 24 hours within the first 12 months of the order , and was brought before the Crown Court where he was found to be in breach of the order , which was revoked . |
| 16 | A comparison is therefore made in Table 4.8 between action and control groups at the time of the second assessment ( approximately six months after the first assessment ) on receipt of some of the main forms of statutory help to those living at home : home help , meals-on-wheels , social worker , community psychiatric nurse , district nurse or bathing assistant , and day care ( day centre or day hospital ) . |
| 17 | Just 45 minutes after the first emergency call , replacement product is with the customer . |
| 18 | And , more importantly were to reveal a grossly unbalanced population , both in sex and age distribution , presaging problems which are with us still And yet , just six years after the first of the emigrant liners sailed from Stornoway , the social value of the croft was demonstrated in the most dramatic way possible . |
| 19 | It is being built to a ‘ fast track ’ programme with just 18 months between the first excavations and the first shop openings . |
| 20 | ft was already 0900 hours on the first day of the Nijmegen Marches when B Squadron crawled out of their sacks and drifted towards the ablutions . |
| 21 | The operations take place on June the 21st , exactly 4 days after the first transplant . |
| 22 | The recall part of the experiment started approximately 50 minutes after the first and 10 minutes after the last of the junctions had been driven through ( the exact times varied considerably depending on driving style and traffic conditions ) . |
| 23 | Although it did so just 150 yards from the first inhabited house of the 7,000-population Sicilian town , the steaming wall of lava — here 20 feet high , and in other places towering more than 50 feet — managed first to swallow up a summer cottage and a vineyard dotted with fruit trees . |
| 24 | You will understand then something of the climate prevailing around Darlington Hall by the time of my father 's fall in front of the summerhouse — this occurring as it did just two weeks before the first of the conference guests were likely to arrive — and what I mean when I say there was little room for any ‘ beating about the bush ’ . |
| 25 | Republican Local soviets Supreme Soviet Armenia ( to be decided ) due on May 20 Azerbaijan ( to be decided ) ( to be decided ) Byelorussia March 4 March 4 Estonia Dec. 10 , 1989 March 18 Georgia due on June 17 ( to be decided ) Kazakhstan Dec. 24 , 1989 March 25 Kirghizia Feb. 25 Feb. 25 Latvia Dec. 10 , 1989 March 18 Lithuania ( to be decided ) Feb. 24 Moldavia Feb. 25 Feb. 25 Russian Federation March 4 March 4 Tadjikistan Dec. 24 , 1989 Feb. 25 Turkmenia Jan. 7 Jan. 7 Ukraine March 4 March 4 Uzbekistan Feb. 18 Feb. 18 *Second round run-off elections were held generally two weeks after the first round in constituencies where contests between more than two candidates had failed to produce a winner with over 50 per cent of the vote . |
| 26 | Finally , though the rest of the curriculum was allocated well under 100 teacher-days during the first three years , there was a substantial rise during the fourth year . |
| 27 | All this — and a great deal more — has been put under one roof at the first Daily Telegraph Individual Homes Show , to be held at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham over Easter . |
| 28 | He added : ‘ Our new facilities , with all departments under one roof for the first time , provide us with a launch pad to put Baricol on the European map . ’ |
| 29 | The new accommodation means we are under one roof for the first time and this means communication between departments , a critical factor in my job , is improved tremendously . |
| 30 | When human society became more developed , achieving an efficient order under one ruler during the First and Second Dynasties , divine power was anthropomorphised and deities began to take human form . |