Example sentences of "in the first and [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Tucson , Arizona-based Artisoft Inc warns that it expects its results for the third quarter to March 31 to be at break-even or slightly below — it expects to increase reserves and allowances , take one-time charges , and accelerate accruals by a pre-tax total of $1.5m to $2m , and it expects third quarter revenues to be below year-ago revenues of $20.3m ; it blames a shift in the sales mix for the revenue shortfall — ‘ Given the current trend toward the LANtastic software only option , the company is cautious in its expectations over the next several quarters for recovery in revenues and earnings to the levels achieved in the first and second quarter of the fiscal year , ’ the company said — it also offers it with adaptors .
2 Windows and Windows NT versions of PowerTools will follow in DDE- and ToolTalk-enabled formats , available in the first and second quarter of next year .
3 Many courses in the first and second year of degrees seem to try to strike their own balance between breadth and depth , in terms of the amount they cover , and the detail they go into ; third-year courses typically cover less ground and go into more depth .
4 I find them all delightful in the first and second year , something happens between the second year and the fourth year , and in the fourth year they seem to have lost interest in academic things .
5 In the first and second year , mainstream Physics students are free to choose an outside course from other faculties but the student of Mathematical Physics must undertake further study in mathematics and theoretical physics ; Computational Physics students take a first-level course in Computer Science .
6 thought that , … in preference to the suggestion that there might be more frequent recommendations for the exercise of the Royal Prerogative , it might be possible to introduce a system similar to that adopted in some parts of the United States under which a distinction was made between murder in the first and second degree , the death penalty being reserved for cases of the former kind .
7 Whether they watched BBC-TV news regularly ( asked in the pre-Campaign Wave ) , and whether they had watched BBC-TV news on the day or day before the interview ( in the first and second fortnight of the campaign ) .
8 They are placed in public spaces often in the centre of villages , to commemorate the brave local people who fought and died in the First and Second World Wars .
9 A Liverpool City Council spokesman said : ‘ It is our understanding that the cenotaph is a remembrance of people who died in the first and second world wars . ’
10 The ruling National Democratic Party ( NDP ) of President Hosni Mubarak was the clear winner in the first and second round of elections for the new People 's National Assembly , held respectively on Nov. 29 and Dec. 6 .
11 In the first and third corridor coaches , the lighting arrangements were as in standard coaches , but with the added feature that in each compartment bell pushes were provided .
12 A parallel development occurred in the ricercari , or fantasie as they are often called , for lute : a development from those of the Capirola lute-manuscript of c. 1517 , which have been compared with Marco Antonio Cavazzoni 's , to the fully imitative fantasie in the first and third Intabolature ( Venice , 1546 and 1547 ) of Francesco da Milano ( 1497–1543 ) , or to the ricercari which Simon Gintzler , lutenist to the Cardinal of Trent , published with transcriptions of vocal works by Josquin , Willaert , Senfl , Verdelot , Arcadelt , and others , also at Venice in 1547 .
13 In the first and last resort , the law , and therefore all courts and judges , are committed to upholding the prevailing social , economic and political order and they will not countenance activities that threaten that order .
14 In the first and longest phase , those who directed the process had no sense of the final outcome .
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