Example sentences of "[num] and [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most tangible signs of this tendency to borrow more are highlighted in the Central Statistical Office 's Social Trends 1989 , which showed that household expenditure exceeded income in 1986 and 1987 for the first time since compilation of the information began . |
| 2 | The most tangible signs of this tendency to borrow more are highlighted in the Central Statistical Office 's Social Trends 1989 , which showed that household expenditure exceeded income in 1986 and 1987 for the first time since compilation of the information began . |
| 3 | The federal criminal office recorded 6,336 anti-foreigner offences ( many of them minor ) in 1992 and 1,339 in the first three months of 1993 . |
| 4 | ICI will be able to stop manufacturing CFCs 11 and 12 in the first quarter of next year , having secured supplies for its remaining customers through a deal with Akzo . |
| 5 | Berry explained : ‘ We got into base camp with the group of trekkers on May 8 and one of the first people I ran into was Krishchaty , just by chance . |
| 6 | Beck , who had defeated Aki Ohmachi of Japan 8 and 6 in the first round , was heading for an even bigger defeat . |
| 7 | For Weir , who like Kerr had a modest tour , the biggest personal highlights came when he scored 37 and 40 in the first Test match . |
| 8 | Apologies for absence , minutes of the previous meeting , agenda , jokes and folksy parables bored one and all for the first half-hour . |
| 9 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
| 10 | Scores of one and 25 in the first Test at Calcutta were in line with his dismal average of 17 , but in the first innings of the second Test in Madras , he at last showed signs of mastering the Indian spinners . |
| 11 | The seating in these open vehicles was two and one in the first class and the third . |
| 12 | Defence Ministers of the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) states ( Bahrain , Kuwait , Oman , Qatar , Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates ) met in Kuwait on Nov. 14 and 15 in the first of four ministerial meetings ahead of the planned summit in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 21 . |
| 13 | Captain Kim Barnett and the Peter Bowler the batsman putting on a hundred and two for the first wicket . |
| 14 | So we 'll go a hundred and eighty in the first three hours . |