Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [subord] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they 're usually made between six and eight months before the first person would move in |
| 2 | not generally towards the end of the sale period because you would be looking at er the brochure or the costs been put together eight months before the first flat was sold , erm a new brochure following a new estimate probably would have been prepared after about twenty months , that is to say er that would have been prepared before the last people entered the er flats |
| 3 | It is 2 years since the first edition of this booklet was printed and during this time there has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of LM potencies . |
| 4 | The building was eventually completed in 1880 , over 300 years after the first stone had been laid . |
| 5 | It is nearly a year since the meeting which led to the setting-up of the Network and six months since the first registration forms went out . |
| 6 | There are several ways to save for school fees but whichever method you choose it is best to start eight to 10 years before the first child enters school . |
| 7 | A RUINED castle is to be rebuilt , 750 years after the first brick of its historic predecessor was laid on the banks of the River Mersey . |
| 8 | The time was 1.30 p.m. , three hours after the first count began . |
| 9 | If one adds that delay to the average of about three months before the first visit is made , one is talking about a possible delay of one year and three months before the application starts to receive the attention that is required before it can proceed . |
| 10 | For example , if 100 or more jobs are to go , consultation must begin at least 90 days before the first dismissal takes effect . |
| 11 | The CAB did not grant the necessary exemption until 19 June — three days before the first plane was due to land at Newark . |
| 12 | As we have attempted in our previous books on further education succinctly to summarize the chief characteristics of the polytechnics , we intend therefore to restrict ourselves to a discussion of the ways in which they have developed in the three years since the first edition of this book was written . |
| 13 | And that euphoria lasted quite 4 minutes until the first siren wailed and a bile settled in my gut that lasted until my Commander-in-Chief sent me a signal : " Personal for Station Commander from C-in-C — Hostilities cease at midnight tonight . |
| 14 | It was another 25 minutes before the first red went in . |
| 15 | The BB , a church-based , inter-denominational youth movement , was started twenty-five years before the first Boy Scouts appeared on the scene . |
| 16 | It found that in the 3 years since the first survey , crime had moved from third place to the top of people ‘ s list of problems affecting their neighbourhood . |
| 17 | ‘ No doubt he will shuffle in five minutes after the first parent comes , and shuffle out half an hour before the last one goes . |
| 18 | Instead an eclectic approach has been taken , highlighting some of the more significant work that has been done in the five years since the first edition of this book was published . |
| 19 | The lieutenant had n't gone fifteen yards before the first bullet hit him , but somehow he still managed to carry on until he reached the wire . |
| 20 | It 's nearly 1000 hours before the first mexeflote raft brings ashore an assortment of Land-Rovers , trailers and four-tonners . |
| 21 | It is exactly 40 years since the first record sales charts were compiled to determine who was top of the pops . |
| 22 | They had been living at Riverstown for two months before the first invitation came . |
| 23 | If you do n't have at least two acres for the first horse and at least one per subsequent animal sharing the land , you have n't got enough for satisfactory winter keep and should be looking for an alternative . |
| 24 | Jewellery markets for platinum also displayed great resilience and , once again led by the Japanese , offtake of platinum reached 1.5 million ounces for the first time . |
| 25 | After the death and resurrection of Jesus , the stories about his life were passed on by word of mouth for some thirty years before the first Gospel was written . |
| 26 | His gallantry in the ensuing conflict won him the MC , but he was killed while crossing the Sambre and Oise canal near Ors in the early morning of 4 November — one week before the armistice , and two years before the first volume of his work was published . |
| 27 | Last year it introduced its second-generation Legend saloon just four years after the first model was launched . |
| 28 | The simplest reason for the disappointing subscription is that the novelty of a kitchen maid poet had dissipated in the four years since the first subscription , especially among the gentry around Brackley who might now observe Philip Leapor enjoying the fruits of the first volume . |
| 29 | ‘ Dalian is excellent in one-on-one situations as the first goal showed , ’ said Atkinson . |
| 30 | A total of 59 meetings had been held between Boutros-Ghali and the two leaders since the first round of talks began in July based on a " Set of Ideas " put forward by Boutros-Ghali [ see p. 39067 ] . |