Example sentences of "[noun prp] in the first [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Dundee in the first year more than 2,000 students applied to the access fund and more than £300,000 was allocated to them . |
| 2 | Much of the learning and practice of the Egyptians was absorbed by Greek physicians , one of the best known of whom is Dioscorides , an army doctor who lived during the time of Nero in the first century AD . |
| 3 | The construction of the temple of-Aphrodite in the first century BC must have required abundant material , and although it is plaus ible to assume that local stone-cutters did exist , more ambitious projects clearly demanded more sophisticated and skilled sculptors and architects . |
| 4 | Just out of Bainbridge by the road that snakes up by Brough Hill are the remains of a Roman camp built by Agricola in the first century AD to police the area . |
| 5 | The only text of the whole legend which exists is that written by the Greek author Plutarch in the first century AD , De Iside et Osiride . |
| 6 | The Roman system of dating ab urbe condita ( i.e. from the foundation of Rome ) was introduced by Varro in the first century BC and was based on the date assigned to the fabled founding of the city . |
| 7 | An instance is provided by the civil war between Pompey and Caesar in the first century BC , when hoarding was so prevalent that it caused a crisis of liquidity . |