Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] [noun] in the first " in BNC.
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1 | My figures show that although there were 34,000 business failures in the first nine months of this year , every week 1,000 new businesses have come into existence under the enterprise allowance scheme alone . |
2 | Amnesty had recorded 45 death-squad murders in the first eight months of 1990 , compared with 40 for the whole of 1989 , and said that killings , torture and disappearances were continuing despite the human rights agreement signed by the government and the FMLN on July 26 [ see p. 37707 ] . |
3 | Second-placed Durham never recovered from a three goal blast in the first 20 minutes at Ryhope , going down 4–2 . |
4 | The ILEA had made a commitment to schools/industry curriculum development and had been one of the five pilot authorities in the first phase of the Schools Council Industry Project , now the Schools Curriculum Industry Partnership ( SCIP ) . |
5 | He found the two armoured personnel carriers that had made the four-track trails , four Jeeps , five cross-country motor bikes and two army trucks in the first hangar . |
6 | Confidence in this traditional system of government was enhanced by its absorption of democratic reform in the nineteenth century and by its survival through two world wars in the first half of the twentieth . |
7 | The Bureau was established at the University of Warwick on 1 September 1983 with a contract for a four year period in the first instance . |
8 | Yes in the F A Cup fourth round third replay between Leeds United and Arsenal at Elland Road , it was the visitors who took a two goal lead in the first half . |
9 | I was given two year option in the first place , so so |
10 | Full back Andy Craggs scored 15 points , starting with two wellstruck penalties in the first eight minutes . |