Example sentences of "[vb past] [num] [noun] for the first " in BNC.

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1 Hezbollah announced 12 candidates for the first two rounds , eight of them in Baalbek , three elsewhere in the Bekaa , and one in Beirut .
2 Gorman is based in Letterkenny and played 20 times for the first team last season scoring three goals .
3 It took six weeks for the first amount of money to arrive .
4 In.the general election Labour won 79 seats for the first time ; it carried 10 out of 13 seats in Birmingham , 9 out of 10 in Manchester and 48 out of 62 in London .
5 He said 600,000 tickets for the first two rounds of the 24-nation tournament had already been sold .
6 I waited two years for the first substantive response to one article despite reminder letters to the editor .
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