Example sentences of "the [noun] for the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We played them off the park for the first 25 minutes of the second half . ’ |
| 2 | Together this mixture of lumpen proletarian resentment and art-school manipulation lit the fuse for the first major explosion in pop music — and pop culture — for ten years . |
| 3 | Britain 's fight for better budgeting terms dominated much of the debate within the EEC for the first ten years of British membership , masking the more important questions of sovereignty and Federalism . |
| 4 | We rode in the field for the first two weeks , and then I had to face the roads and the tractors . |
| 5 | The optimist would point out that the aggregate attendance for the two Tests so far — 31,310 — compares very favourably with the aggregates for the first two Tests of 1980 ( 17,977 ) , and 1985 ( 28,097 ) . |
| 6 | Trading profits in the communications division were more than double the figure for the first half year thanks to the cost control programme . |
| 7 | The quotas cover 39 species ; the National Marine Fisheries Service can halt fishing if it finds the catch has reached the quota for the first six months of the year . |
| 8 | The summit was originally called by Charles Haughey , the Irish Prime Minister and President of the Council for the first six months of 1990 , to discuss the Communities ' response to the prospect of German unification and to the rapid changes in the rest of Eastern Europe . |
| 9 | She stayed with the Cohens for the first seven or eight years of Leonard 's life . ) |
| 10 | At present , patients are prevented from receiving the benefit for the first six months of a terminal illness . |
| 11 | The National Health Service Training Centre at Harrogate was recently the venue for the first Northern Pest Control Servisales Course . |
| 12 | These two dimensions provided the basis for the first coherent theories about the connections between the peoples of the world . |
| 13 | This work resulted in a list of buildings which formed the basis for the first systematic protection established by the 1944 Town and Country Planning Act . |
| 14 | With only two men outside the circle for the first 15 overs , he could run riot in the way that Greatbatch has done recently for New Zealand . |
| 15 | St Albans wait to hear the draw for the first official European Club Indoor Championship at Amiens in March , when their rivals will include Amsterdam , Holywood ‘ 87 ( Ireland ) , MIM ( Scotland ) , Swansea and Rot-Weiss Cologne . |
| 16 | The figures for the first two years are easy as these decisions have already been taken , years four and five are merely projections on current assumptions while the hard decisions have at this stage to be taken for year three . |
| 17 | The CNAA could not establish boards for every subject component of degrees in education , and in the event for the first few years the Committee for Education , using a range of specialist panels in support , itself carried out the validation work . |
| 18 | The company were more than twenty five million pounds in the red for the first six months of nineteen ninety three . |
| 19 | Accountancy Television has announced the rates for the first annual subscriptions . |
| 20 | A Balinese child does not touch the ground for the first three months of life . |
| 21 | Then , using our equations , we predicted the prices for the first four sales of the year 1991 : Sotheby 's 8 January and 18 February 1991 , Christie 's 9 January and 16 April 1991 . |
| 22 | Having calculated the profit for the first six months discuss whether the profit figure is a useful benchmark for measuring the performance of the business , and also whether it is useful as a guide to future profitability . |
| 23 | The encouraging February figure took the total for the first two months of 1993 to 291,923 — nearly 11pc up on the January-February , 1992 , figure of 263,096 . |
| 24 | The chair was occupied by the Geikies for the first 43 years of its existence . |
| 25 | The electricity cable laying to give 'em a job so you could play for the Ipswich Electric Supply Team and we had a jolly good team , we won the cup for the first three years that it was in being but the finals used to be on Portman Road and course that was in those days a thing to be looked forward to . |
| 26 | The bad news is revealed partly by the results for the first half year and partly by the company 's prediction that its borrowings will only be down to half shareholders ' funds even at the end-of-year low point after the Christmas rush . |
| 27 | : Table 3.8 shows the results for the first ten words selected from the relative frequency distribution list . |
| 28 | This tuck stitch is easy to work on the Singer Big Nine and you can see from this sample that by working with a lighter shade for the background for the first four pattern repeats followed by a darker one for the background , similar amounts of yarn have been used over the same number of rows . |
| 29 | I worked in the garden for the first two days . |
| 30 | Their hard-nosed ‘ method ’ rugby and its ultimate reward when they blitzed the Springboks for the first two-thirds of the test at Ellis Park to build an unassailable 20–3 lead . |