Example sentences of "and [prep] the first [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I learnt about the Greeks and Romans , and about Christ , and about the first white men in America and the sad story of the Indians . |
| 2 | If a girl is lucky and her parents are alive , she goes to her mother 's house for the last few months of her pregnancy and about the first three months of the baby 's life . |
| 3 | Most lived alone in isolated outposts with the nearest countryman a day or two of travel away , and for the first hundred years there was no telegraph or railroad . |
| 4 | And for the first five years of my life , I just led a very lonely life with only the my grandmother and my parents and the farm men . |
| 5 | In the immediate neighbourhood of The Milebrook were few families except for the local farmers , and for the first four years there we had no transport other than bicycles and a pony cart . |
| 6 | Moreover , foreign policy dictated caution ; with France and Scotland in alliance , she could not immediately break with Spain , and for the first four months of her reign the watching world was asked to believe in her willingness to contemplate marriage with her late sister 's husband , Philip II . |
| 7 | Lipson and colleagues subsequently report ( May 22 , p 1352 ) from Australia a girl born with multiple congenital defects to a mother , who before conception and for the first 5 weeks of gestation , had used a topical liquid preparation of 0.05% tretinoin in 45% alcohol . |
| 8 | In fact , Los Angeles scared him a little and for the first six months he barely ventured out of the house alone . |
| 9 | Special educational needs was always a much more prominent aspect of the work of Phase 1 coordinators than of those in Phases 2 or 3 , and for the first three years of PNP SEN was the dominant coordinator task in Phase 1 . |
| 10 | He had his eyes closed , and for the first few moments Belinda kept hers open , so she could see in extreme close-up the blurred crescents of his dark lashes resting on the smoothly tanned skin of his cheeks . |
| 11 | The teachers were very helpful and caring , and for the first few days I thought I was getting on quite well with my new classmates . |
| 12 | Throughout the field investigation there will obviously be exchanges of information between the engineering , operational , flight recorder and pathological investigators , and for the first few days at least there will be regular meetings for mutual consultation at the end of each day 's work . |
| 13 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 14 | So he decides to be cautious and for the first few laps , he just sits and waits . |
| 15 | With Lindsey 's Corsair being the only one of its type in Europe , airshow organisers had to approach him if they wanted a Corsair in their flying display , and for the first few years John Allison and Lindsey flew all over Europe with the aircraft . |
| 16 | For many years , both in the days of glassfibre and for the first few years of plastic , there was little variety in the shape of boats in general recreational use . |
| 17 | There was a rapid improvement in pH and PaCO 2 for the NIPPV group , and for the first 3 days they were less short of breath than the control group . |
| 18 | Behind it lay the Anglo-American fusion that had powered the paper in 1966 and through the first eighteen months . |
| 19 | There , she had been happy in Pakistan ; she had been happy in the Peckham house at least for the first year ; she had been happy working for Graham ; she 'd been enthusiastically interested at college and during the first two years after she had qualified ; she had been completely delighted when she had got the job she now had : a tenants ' association garden in a dreadful estate in Hackney , but where she , with a community group , had planned the garden from scratch and had made a small desert blossom like a rose . |
| 20 | The oligosaccharides have been found to be particularly concentrated in colostrum — the thick , creamy pre-milk that is produced by the breasts in late pregnancy and during the first few days after birth before the breastmilk proper comes in . |
| 21 | During 1989 a total of 21,882 people , nearly twice as many as in 1988 and most of them from Eastern Europe , sought asylum in Austria , and during the first three months of 1990 the numbers reached 5,000 , most of them being Romanians who were arriving at a rate of 200 per day in late February . |
| 22 | " The neighbourhood was not very populous and during the first three days our visitors were few , some children from the village below , a gypsy woman or two with dark eyes , who carried of a few halfpence , and perhaps a chance passer by . |
| 23 | Consequently , you seem to have experienced a testing period in close personal ties and in joint financial arrangements , and during the first three weeks of April you will come to realise that a day of reckoning or a major upheaval was unavoidable . |
| 24 | And during the first three centuries A.D. , there were certain Mandaean or Johannite sects , especially in the region of the Tigris-Euphrates basin , who honoured John , not Jesus , as their prophet . |
| 25 | ‘ And after the first few years , when you get over all that being in love , then it 's : ‘ Oh , this is the person I am living with . ’ |
| 26 | And , in one sense , the history of the formation of the BDDA and of the first hundred years is the history of a struggle to remedy the mistake of Milan . |
| 27 | The history of its formation and of the first hundred years fills the following pages . |
| 28 | Last year it was £9.5 billion , and in the first nine months of this year it is £2 billion . |
| 29 | According to Japan 's Ministry of Finance , direct investment in the Philippines by Japanese companies in 1987 was $72,000,000 , while in 1988 the figure rose to $134,000,000 , and in the first six months of 1989 the amount was already $101,000,000 . |
| 30 | After its vast spending spree on new factories at the tail end of the 1970s and in the first five years of the 1980s , IBM scared the pants off its competitors by stressing that it was by far the lowest-cost manufacturer in the industry . |