Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] of the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , I have been at a venue like the Marquee club to check out a band for a record company and have also watched 30 minutes of the first act . |
| 2 | A random sample of 100 was taken from the 308 patients who had been referred to the local Detoxification Unit during the same 12 months of the first prevalence study period . |
| 3 | Frame Technology Inc , San Jose , is right in there with FrameMaker 3.0 for Windows NT , needless to say claiming it to be the industry 's first document publishing application for Windows NT : it will be available customers within 30 days of the first customer ship of Windows NT at $800 . |
| 4 | Lennox Lewis , the British heavyweight , stormed to another thrilling victory when he knocked out Bradford 's Steve Garber in one minute 30 seconds of the first round in Hull last night to record his fourth successive victory . |
| 5 | Trinity held an early 6-4 lead , but were hit with two tries in the final six minutes of the first half as Saints finally clicked into gear . |
| 6 | FIFTY PERCENT OF THIS PAYMENT WILL BE MADE WITHIN 30 DAYS OF RECEIPT IN TURKEY OF THE LABELS AND INSERT CARDS FOR A SPECIFIED VIDEO , AND THE REMAINING FIFTY PER CENT WILL BE MADE WITHIN SIX MONTHS OF THE FIRST PAYMENT . |
| 7 | They lost their scrum-half , Adam Brosnan , after three minutes of the first match and their captain , Jonathan Ions , with a broken jaw in the second match plus four more serious injuries and a host of minor injuries . |
| 8 | The news for United 's vast following is less euphoric ; a subdued crowd of 26,698 , the backlash to the Derby defeat , saw them fail to add to the three goals of the first leg . |
| 9 | Dental appointments were booked for seven ( 70 per cent ) of the children whose teeth had not recently been inspected , and at least four of these had been carried out within three months of the first assessment . |
| 10 | Within three weeks of the first announcement , there were over 300 applications . |
| 11 | It certainly is the case that the Reagan administration was never able to duplicate the domestic policy triumphs of 1981 in the remaining three years of the first term . |
| 12 | Three quarters of the first tranche has been set aside for cleaning up Phuket and Pattaya . |
| 13 | In hexagonal close packing , a second layer sits on top of the first layer so that each sphere in the second layer is in contact with three spheres of the first layer ( see figure 3.22 ) . |
| 14 | On two or three afternoons of the first week winds may be a little daunting ; do n't be put off . |
| 15 | So , when the 1971 British Lions stretched Fergie McCormick this way and that when winning the First Test on Mains ' home ground , the All Black selectors decided that McCormick had to go , and Mains went on to play the remaining three Tests of the first rubber that the Lions had won in New Zealand . |
| 16 | For those who did n't hear Leeds beat Oldham 1–0 last night with Strachan scoring after 11 mins of the first half . |
| 17 | The panels were decorated with the portraits of the twelve Marshals of the First Empire , in their splendid uniforms ; the tall windows were hung with red velvet draperies with golden fringes and they seemed but tiny openings in the enormous room . |
| 18 | His tenderness towards his many children ( perhaps fifteen in all , of whom a son and five daughters of the first marriage , and two sons and two daughters of the second marriage are certainly known ) was a notable characteristic . |
| 19 | Well folks this was not a classic in fact the first 40 minutes of the first half was utterly crap . |
| 20 | No Sharmans subscribed to Leapor 's poems , although a Margaret Sherman subscribed for two copies of the first volume . |
| 21 | The brilliant and tuneful overture is full of the joy of life — but within two months of the first performance , Weber died in London at the age of 39 . |
| 22 | Er , I think the main ones really , are on page one o six the final two lines of the first paragraph which says the two vacant blocks now really , there 's four it should just read , and does now read the demolition of the vacant blocks . |
| 23 | The first two lines of the first stanza are symbolic of the suns ability to give life as they refer to a man 's physical awakening , but here the tone changes . |
| 24 | Oesophageal manometry and ambulatory gastric and oesophageal pH monitoring were performed within seven to 14 days of the first endoscopy . |
| 25 | Forged notes ( done within 14 days of the first issue of paper money ) were shown complete with various graphic devices to avoid , technically at least , the charge of forgery . |
| 26 | The changes provided for a second poll to be held within 14 days of the first round of voting in the Federal Assembly if no candidate won at least 60 per cent of the vote . |
| 27 | For the first two years of the First World War there was no conscription in Britain , but there was machinery to recruit volunteers . |
| 28 | There are two levels of the first factor ( high and low ) and three of the second factor ( high , medium and low ) . |
| 29 | , Charles Thomas ( 1860–1931 ) , cricketer and missionary , was born in Spratton , Northamptonshire , 2 December 1860 , the third of the six sons ( with one daughter ) of Edward Studd , indigo planter in India , later of Tedworth House , Wiltshire , and his second wife Dorothy ( ‘ Dora ’ ) Sophia , daughter of John Thomas , Calcutta merchant , of Bledsoe , Bedfordshire ; there were four children of the first marriage . |
| 30 | We then have two issues of the first edition . |