Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Between 30 October 1984 and 9 January 1985 each of the first four plaintiffs entered into a mortgage debenture charging its assets to secure repayment of moneys advanced to it by the first defendant , which was then known as Johnson Matthey Bankers Ltd . |
| 2 | Case D , although ranked 3 , earns 7000 more in the first 2 years than case C , which is ranked 1 . |
| 3 | Case D , although ranked 3 , earns 7000 more in the first 2 years than case C , which is ranked 1 . |
| 4 | In Britain the biggest box-office hit was Batman Returns with Pounds 2.77 million in the first three days . |
| 5 | The first letter of the word is stored simply as one of the rightmost 26 bits out of the 32 available in the first long integer . |
| 6 | BACK in 1987 one of the first tentative recognitions of AIDS in the arts world , a benefit concert called ‘ Music for Life ’ , was held at Carnegie Hall in New York . |
| 7 | I do n't think even in our wildest dreams we managed to spend an extra five million in the first few weeks of this council , I remember a couple of million going into schools and few hundred thousand for voluntary organizations , and er , and old people 's homes . |
| 8 | The lease was to run for 21 years yielding a Royalty of one ninth in the first three years ; an eighth during the next three , and a seventh part or dish for the remainder of the term . |
| 9 | The scheme has been welcomed by the National Farmers Union and countryside campaigners , both of whom , however , criticized as insufficient the £3.5 million available for the first three years . |
| 10 | The initial budget for the current year was £13 million , which was increased to £20 million to take account of the £7 million underspent in the first two years . |
| 11 | So the budget fixed for the current year was £20 million and the £7 million underspent in the first two years of the scheme did not go back to the Treasury — it was not lost to computerisation — but was committed to the further development of GP computerisation . |