Example sentences of "[num] [noun] for the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the cost of borrowing £5,000 over 180 months for the first year ; after that it was £100.77 a month . |
| 2 | TONIGHT David Hockney , as set designer , will be accompanied by some 30 friends for the first night of the Royal Opera House 's new production of Richard Strauss 's Die Frau ohne Schatten ( The Woman Without Shadow ) , directed by John Cox and conducted by Bernard Haitinck . |
| 3 | THE receiver handling the sale of Birmingham City has had 22 inquiries for the First Division club after it was formally put up for sale earlier this week . |
| 4 | There had been four women members in the outgoing Majlis , and in the April 10 vote for the first time a women was elected to represent a constituency outside Tehran ( in the holy city of Mashad ) . |
| 5 | Firstly , the proportion of teachers who , having successfully completed the first year , stay on into the second in order to obtain the Certificate in Education ( FE ) is proving to be extremely high : for example , of the 1,128 candidates for the first year courses being offered in 1979–80 , no fewer than 1,024 moved into their second year in 1980–1 . |
| 6 | Dromore jockey John Reid who is having his best ever season was in a suitably bullish mood when I spoke to him about the remainder of the 1993 Flat racing year which has seen him head inexorably towards 100 winners for the first time in his career . |
| 7 | It took six weeks for the first amount of money to arrive . |
| 8 | Monthly PC sales have topped six figures for the first time , with 100,165 computers worth £111.6 million shipped in the UK during November 1992 . |
| 9 | In.the general election Labour won 79 seats for the first time ; it carried 10 out of 13 seats in Birmingham , 9 out of 10 in Manchester and 48 out of 62 in London . |
| 10 | They arrange crews , sailing one per three beginners for the first week ; for the second week they coach on request . |
| 11 | I refer not only to the fact that the match started with two wides , courtesy of Chris Lewis ; not only to the strange sight of an opening bowler in odd socks ( Neil Mallender black left sock , white right sock ) ; not only to the fact that England had no player with three initials for the first time since the third Test against New Zealand in 1990 , the selectors having left out Salisbury and having sent get-well-soon messages to DeFreitas , Tufnell and Fraser ; not only to the fact that Mallender joined the huge list of Test opening bowlers with a double ‘ I ’ in their name ( a list that in recent years has included Dilley , Allott , Small , Williams and Ellison : expect Millns to add his name to the pile soon . |
| 12 | Captain Naas Botha said ‘ We want a repeat of our match against the Midlands in midweek when we played effective rugby for the full 80 minutes for the first time on tour . |
| 13 | Well I do think give fourteen days for the first payment sir . |
| 14 | give fourteen days for the first payment sir ? |
| 15 | You 'll have fourteen days for the first payment and twenty pounds a week thereafter . |
| 16 | In the city the FT one hundred shares index broke through the three thousand barrier for the first time today after hopes of an early cut in interest rates . |
| 17 | The 15 most heavily indebted developing countries ( see p. 37017 ) in 1988 as a group increased the surplus of their merchandise exports over their imports to nearly dollars 28,000 million ; the dollar value of their exports rose above the 1981 peak for the first time since the onset of the Third-World debt service problem , although the GATT report pointed out that this trade performance needed to be seen against the background of rising interest charges and continued lack of fresh capital inflows . |
| 18 | Swindon Town expect to sell their entire allocation of thirty-six thousand tickets for the First Division play-off final . |
| 19 | In fact Hounslow could find only eight players for the first match of the tournament and conceded 12 goals against England before the hard-working Hacker opened their account . |
| 20 | We only had to wait for five minutes for the first boooooom … and a second … and a third . |
| 21 | Fourteen pound for the firs er twelve pound for the first half and fourteen for the second . |
| 22 | He added : ‘ Our new facilities , with all departments under one roof for the first time , provide us with a launch pad to put Baricol on the European map . ’ |
| 23 | The new accommodation means we are under one roof for the first time and this means communication between departments , a critical factor in my job , is improved tremendously . |
| 24 | If we wish , we can establish one melody for the first verse and merely repeat it in the others , possibly varying some factor such as accompaniment , volume , colour , etc . |
| 25 | This will liberate much needed space in one two one , and enable the Board to bring together its central administration in one place for the first time ever . |
| 26 | England will tour South Africa in the 1995-96 season for the first time in 30 years . |
| 27 | Alexei Mikhailichenko , the Ukrainian , will be number one choice for the first leg tie against Lyngby of Denmark at Ibrox on Wednesday . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He added : ‘ I made a tremendous start to the year and badly wanted that No 1 spot for the first time but it made me become negative . |
| 30 | He 's the first Gloucester player to score a hat trick this season and has now scored over 2,300 points for the first team . |