Example sentences of "the [noun pl] for the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Accountancy Television has announced the rates for the first annual subscriptions . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | : Table 3.8 shows the results for the first ten words selected from the relative frequency distribution list . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The icy missiles bombarded the runners for the first two miles , and when the aerial attack subsided Johnson pulled away at the head of the field , and only Steve Webb , of Blaydon Harriers , responded to the quickening pace . |
| 9 | It has two merits : it stops detergent from getting stuck in the dispenser and therefore wasted , and it allows a highly concentrated washing solution to engulf the clothes for the first ten minutes of a wash . |
| 10 | Prince Charles argued that they should be brought up initially by Mabel Anderson , his childhood nanny , and then a governess employed to educate the boys for the first few years in the privacy of Kensington Palace . |
| 11 | They had been underestimated , as the first Test proved , but the damage had been done and the attendances for the first two Tests were depressing . |