Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | That apart , we should bear in mind that roses vary greatly in their ability to bloom more or less continuously after the first flush . |
| 2 | Transnational capitalist classes do not identify with any foreign country in particular , or even necessarily with the First World , or the white world , or the Western world . |
| 3 | This has not in itself created a culture and ideology of consumerism ; for these have been in place for at least the last century and perhaps longer in the First World and among comprador classes elsewhere . |
| 4 | He was deathly pale and obviously still in the first shock of grief but it had taken him differently . |
| 5 | Most of the growth was concentrated in the later decades of the nineteenth century and still more in the first years of the twentieth . |
| 6 | With my own two children , I felt cheerful and reasonably well during the first pregnancy ; the bonding process with the baby was immediate and passionate , but nine months later I was seeking medical help for exhaustion . |
| 7 | I might even get to the office and be measured and out again before the first of the boys arrived . |
| 8 | The action is slow to build up , but once midway through the first act the melodrama is unleashed layer upon layer , with liberal use of corpses and skeletons — the worms of decomposition having done an admirably speedy job in some cases . |