Example sentences of "[det] [be] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was just in the first half kids . |
| 2 | that 's why , that 's why during the first World War , Germany made a categor categoric statement that Russia should start disarming , she was mobilising |
| 3 | But that 's only in the first year , in the second year erm the percentage will reduce quite rapidly and we 're only spending half the second and third years . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's enough for the first time . ’ |
| 5 | Shaun used to want to argue about essentially trivial things like whether we should appear on Top Of The Pops — and that was just after the first single . |
| 6 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 7 | That was midway through the first half and Town should have gone in two up . |