Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [prep] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of every cwt. of copper she was to receive 2s. or one-twentieth during the first five years thereafter to have 2s. 6d. , or one-fifteenth . |
| 2 | Usually we would be satisfied with the results of one or other of the first two techniques . |
| 3 | But there are at least four levels of understanding clearly discernible in a biblical view of faith and each of the first four categories of doubt runs parallel to one of these levels . |
| 4 | Sabrina opened the top file and leafed through the first few invoices . |
| 5 | Yet one study showed that about one in five of all premarital pregnancies occur in the first month of a sexual relationship , and half within the first six months . |
| 6 | RIVER WEAVER : Usually a good starter and busy for the first few days . |
| 7 | So we 'll go a hundred and eighty in the first three hours . |
| 8 | The term itself only began to be generally used in the early nineteenth century in Western Europe , and one of the first systematic discussions is to be found in the book by Lorenz von Stein , where the social movement is portrayed as a struggle for greater social independence culminating in the class struggle of the proletariat . |
| 9 | The island supports a lighthouse , unmanned since the 1930s , and one of the first automatic stations in the Trinity House Group . |
| 10 | Bernie Grant , representing Tottenham in the borough of Haringey and one of the first black MPs , was unequivocal and unambiguous in his opposition from the very start . |
| 11 | Meanwhile back at Brooklands , he test flew the new Parsons biplane , and one of the first flying test-beds — a Maurice Farman ‘ Pusher ’ aeroplane in which the new Sunbeam engine was installed . |
| 12 | The federal criminal office recorded 6,336 anti-foreigner offences ( many of them minor ) in 1992 and 1,339 in the first three months of 1993 . |
| 13 | However , very few of the teachers even recognized the issue as one of professional concern at the start of the project , and most of the first two years was spent in establishing the educational importance of the issue and working towards the development of feasible intervention strategies . |