Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [vb pp] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why was this baby kidnapped in the first place ? ’ |
| 2 | Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) . |
| 3 | It is important to realise that it is these eggs deposited in the first half of the grazing season from April to June , which give rise to the potentially dangerous populations of L3 from July to October . |
| 4 | For these reasons , there is a massive drop-out rate , with only some one quarter of all pupils registered in the first year finishing their primary education . " |
| 5 | Can my right hon. Friend comment on the recent improvements unveiled in the Guy 's hospital patients charter , with 3 , 500 more patients treated in the first six months , with better staff conditions and with lower waiting lists ? |
| 6 | Revised GDP figures show that growth slowed in the first quarter of 1993 to an annual rate of only 0.9% , down from 4.7% in the previous quarter . |
| 7 | Any reason given in the first couple of stanzas . |