Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [prep] the first and " in BNC.
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| 1 | An anonymous reviewer of the book in the Times Literary Supplement declared : ‘ If a student of British politics were to demand some precepts to guide his researches , the compiler would have little difficulty about the first and most significant maxim in the creed . |
| 2 | The two tasks are interrelated but in this book we separate them and look in this chapter at the first and most difficult task . |
| 3 | Erm and we have in fact , done some tests on the first and second floor since we did this eye test and er , humidity is in fact , within the the er the Health and Safety legislation , it 's within tolerance . |
| 4 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 5 | Many courses in the first and second year of degrees seem to try to strike their own balance between breadth and depth , in terms of the amount they cover , and the detail they go into ; third-year courses typically cover less ground and go into more depth . |
| 6 | If another image occurs during this time , we can not perceive any interval between the first and second images and they appear continuous . |
| 7 | Can you notice any differences between the first and second ways of performing this action ? |