Example sentences of "[vb past] with the first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April Prime Minister Pavlov announced that compared with the first quarter of 1990 there had been in the first quarter of 1991 a 10 per cent fall in national income , a 5 per cent fall in industrial output and a 13 per cent fall in agricultural output . |
| 2 | The later theory of instincts , which included the death instincts , as well as the sexual instincts which were retained from the first formulation , seemed to solve the theoretical difficulties that arose with the first theory of instincts . |
| 3 | Significantly their arrival coincided with the first wave of summer visitors in more southerly parts of Britain , including wheatears reported as far north as Staffordshire . |
| 4 | I 'd not done an adaptation before and my fears grew with the first reading of the book , simply because of the enormity of the task . ’ |
| 5 | I dealt with the first part of the hon. Lady 's question in reply to the right hon. Member for Yeovil ( Mr. Ashdown ) . |