Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] in the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In public perceptions the gap between Conservative unity and Labour unity narrowed sharply in the first few days of the campaign and again at the end , but actually increased very slightly in the third week . |
| 2 | Everything came through in the first nine months of 1991 so the company was able to trade profitably . |
| 3 | ( Currently students gaining a baccalauréat were guaranteed a university place ; however , 50 per cent of students dropped out in the first two years . ) |
| 4 | The FA will also investigate Dunstable 's bizarre exit from the FA Cup on Saturday when the entire team walked off in their second-round qualifying tie at Staines after having three players sent off in the first 38 minutes . |
| 5 | Ards fell behind in the first five minutes when uncertain defence allowed left wing Bell in for a try which was converted from the touchline by Barnes . |
| 6 | None of the studies presents an operative model ( Rosener , in our opinion , comes closest , but her model , as she shows herself , is more heuristic than empirical ) , and so in the next section a model will be set out and explained in the light of the evaluation criteria for participation and effectiveness put forward in the first two sections of this paper . |
| 7 | Launched on a miniscule budget and a surge of dubious optimism , held together in the first eighteen months by a poultice of desperation and blind faith ( not to mention liberal applications of cow gum and sellotape ) , still independent after a decade of brinkmanship publishing this is a tremendous achievement . |
| 8 | The era ended abruptly in the first two years of the 1980s , when almost every astronomical satellite reached the end of its life . |