Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] 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 | He also allowed his mount to drift out by six horse widths during the first 200 metres , which is forbidden on the straight Vaal course . |
| 3 | 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 ] . |
| 4 | With fourteen family visitors on the first day , the hospital rebelled . |
| 5 | One of the five woodcut maps from the first edition of the Geneva Bible in English , printed at Geneva by Rouland Hall in 1560 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | The tentacle scale is pointed and spine-like ; l on a few specimens there are two tentacle scales on the first arm segment . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was fitting , in an ironic sort of way , that the 100th final , in 1991 , was contested by two League sides for the first time but neither Southend nor Leyton Orient fielded their best team . |
| 11 | Full back Andy Craggs scored 15 points , starting with two wellstruck penalties in the first eight minutes . |