Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [prep] [art] first [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Société Générale , one of the country 's biggest banks , had to raise provisions against dud loans by more than half in the first six months of 1990 . |
| 2 | Silver production had been lower than average in the first seven months of 1989 . |
| 3 | Sotheby 's paid dearly for this error of judgment with no less than six of the first nine lots in its evening sale failing to find buyers . |
| 4 | If either of the first two did so , the defendant would not be liable . |
| 5 | If any of the first five are included in your list , take heart , because these can be dealt with and are avoidable . |
| 6 | The topology of the molecule , which comprises two immunoglobulin-like domains , is the same as that of the first two domains of CD4 but the relative domain orientation is altered by a fairly flexible linker region . |
| 7 | For an established and successful brand , the objectives might well be , to a large extent , ‘ maintenance ’ objectives : to keep a high level of awareness of the brand , ideally as one of the first two in its field spontaneously named by respondents to a regular survey ( something often described in the US as ‘ share of mind ’ ) ; to maintain a high level of belief in the brand 's superiority over its main competitor on certain key attributes of the product type ; to encourage people to offer the product to their visitors . |
| 8 | By 1568 they were incorporated as one of the first two English joint-stock companies , the Society of the Mines Royal , with some important royal servants and London merchants as members . |