Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] for the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the cost of borrowing £5,000 over 180 months for the first year ; after that it was £100.77 a month . |
| 2 | TONIGHT David Hockney , as set designer , will be accompanied by some 30 friends for the first night of the Royal Opera House 's new production of Richard Strauss 's Die Frau ohne Schatten ( The Woman Without Shadow ) , directed by John Cox and conducted by Bernard Haitinck . |
| 3 | THE receiver handling the sale of Birmingham City has had 22 inquiries for the First Division club after it was formally put up for sale earlier this week . |
| 4 | Firstly , the proportion of teachers who , having successfully completed the first year , stay on into the second in order to obtain the Certificate in Education ( FE ) is proving to be extremely high : for example , of the 1,128 candidates for the first year courses being offered in 1979–80 , no fewer than 1,024 moved into their second year in 1980–1 . |
| 5 | Dromore jockey John Reid who is having his best ever season was in a suitably bullish mood when I spoke to him about the remainder of the 1993 Flat racing year which has seen him head inexorably towards 100 winners for the first time in his career . |
| 6 | It took six weeks for the first amount of money to arrive . |
| 7 | Monthly PC sales have topped six figures for the first time , with 100,165 computers worth £111.6 million shipped in the UK during November 1992 . |
| 8 | In.the general election Labour won 79 seats for the first time ; it carried 10 out of 13 seats in Birmingham , 9 out of 10 in Manchester and 48 out of 62 in London . |
| 9 | They arrange crews , sailing one per three beginners for the first week ; for the second week they coach on request . |
| 10 | I refer not only to the fact that the match started with two wides , courtesy of Chris Lewis ; not only to the strange sight of an opening bowler in odd socks ( Neil Mallender black left sock , white right sock ) ; not only to the fact that England had no player with three initials for the first time since the third Test against New Zealand in 1990 , the selectors having left out Salisbury and having sent get-well-soon messages to DeFreitas , Tufnell and Fraser ; not only to the fact that Mallender joined the huge list of Test opening bowlers with a double ‘ I ’ in their name ( a list that in recent years has included Dilley , Allott , Small , Williams and Ellison : expect Millns to add his name to the pile soon . |
| 11 | Captain Naas Botha said ‘ We want a repeat of our match against the Midlands in midweek when we played effective rugby for the full 80 minutes for the first time on tour . |
| 12 | Well I do think give fourteen days for the first payment sir . |
| 13 | give fourteen days for the first payment sir ? |
| 14 | You 'll have fourteen days for the first payment and twenty pounds a week thereafter . |
| 15 | Swindon Town expect to sell their entire allocation of thirty-six thousand tickets for the First Division play-off final . |
| 16 | In fact Hounslow could find only eight players for the first match of the tournament and conceded 12 goals against England before the hard-working Hacker opened their account . |
| 17 | We only had to wait for five minutes for the first boooooom … and a second … and a third . |
| 18 | It has an average of thirteen point five marks for the first X plus one tests . |
| 19 | He 's the first Gloucester player to score a hat trick this season and has now scored over 2,300 points for the first team . |
| 20 | Two guineas were paid for the use of the engine and hose , with payment of two shillings for the first hour and one shilling per hour afterwards for firemen , and one shilling for the first hour and six pence afterwards for pumpers . |
| 21 | These allowances were increased during the war , and by 1918 were worth four shillings for the first child , decreasing to one shilling each for fourth and subsequent children . |
| 22 | The main concrete results of the summit were ( i ) the signing of an agreement banning the production of chemical weapons ; ( ii ) a set of accords normalizing commercial relations between the two countries for the first time in 50 years ; and ( iii ) a provisional treaty on nuclear weapons . |
| 23 | It costs up to thirty pounds for the first series of jabs … ansd then between fifteen and twenty pounds for an annual booster . |
| 24 | Splitting into two teams for the first attempt , Fowler and Jones climbed the incomplete Japanese route up the south ridge but were driven back by poor weather , while Saunders and Sustad attempted the spur . |
| 25 | This is a small amount in relation to our subscriptions which reached one million pounds for the first time but it does pose problems . |
| 26 | The R Y A is financially strong , following from the good results of last year , the reserves passed one million pounds for the first time and those will enable us to continue with our work for yachting while we deal with the problems that I have touched upon . |
| 27 | They want money , they want two pounds for the first lot which they 've had that and two pounds for that |
| 28 | Abbotsfield and Carinish Court : Peter had heard the two names for the first time on the same evening in July 1964 . |
| 29 | She caught him up in a breathless embrace , then gave a little gasp of alarm as she seemed to notice the two policemen for the first time . |
| 30 | The sales were organized separately in the two republics for the first time . |