Example sentences of "[coord] [num] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if in if inflation went up say seven or eight percent in the first year , you 're looking at prices in double figures . |
| 2 | Tell you the truth , there was two or three others after the first one went overseas , before I knew about him being dead . |
| 3 | On two or three afternoons of the first week winds may be a little daunting ; do n't be put off . |
| 4 | Between 1893 and 1980 descendants of the first H.O . |
| 5 | The house was bounded on its Culver Street frontage by Invicta Terrace — a row of thirteen identical dwellings having two rooms and a scullery downstairs and three bedrooms on the first floor , though none of the rooms were of any size . |
| 6 | Net production averaged 422 mmcfd of gas and 15,900 boepd during the first half of 1992 . |
| 7 | Two guineas were paid for the use of the engine and hose , with payment of two shillings for the first hour and one shilling per hour afterwards for firemen , and one shilling for the first hour and six pence afterwards for pumpers . |
| 8 | There must be one year and one day between the first and last , under two different judges , which is no mean achievement . |
| 9 | His tenderness towards his many children ( perhaps fifteen in all , of whom a son and five daughters of the first marriage , and two sons and two daughters of the second marriage are certainly known ) was a notable characteristic . |
| 10 | The Russian conquest of northern Eurasia , which developed from the north-eastward territorial expansion of Novgorod and then Moscow , reached beyond the Urals into Asia only some sixty years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico , and twenty years before the first french and English colonies were founded in North America . |
| 11 | The main building has a dining-room , kitchen , TV-lounge and reading-room on the ground floor , and a lecture theatre , two seminar rooms , bursar 's flat and two toilets on the first floor . |
| 12 | One hit was scored against Scharnhorst , but both ships hit the old liner time and time again and 14 minutes after the first shot , it was all over . |
| 13 | CORONER 'S REPORT , SECTION 224 : Lepine was seen on the campus at least ten times before December 6 : in September at the student co-op , then three times the next month in the Polytechnic building , in November at the administrative building , and four times in the first week of December , and the last time in the cafeteria on the ground floor . |
| 14 | There were two daughters and four sons by the first marriage , and three sons by the second . |
| 15 | S 963 has eight bishops ( including Archbishop Æthelnoth ) , four earls , four abbots and eight ministri , and S 971 six bishops ( including Æthelnoth ) , three earls , three abbots and twelve ministri , while the four earls and four milites in the first column of the list in S 977 are matched by eight abbots in the second . |
| 16 | In sixty percent of spontaneous abortions the foetuses are normal and thirty percent in the first trimester show gross chromosomal abnormalities . |