Example sentences of "three [noun pl] of [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They lost their scrum-half , Adam Brosnan , after three minutes of the first match and their captain , Jonathan Ions , with a broken jaw in the second match plus four more serious injuries and a host of minor injuries .
2 The news for United 's vast following is less euphoric ; a subdued crowd of 26,698 , the backlash to the Derby defeat , saw them fail to add to the three goals of the first leg .
3 Dental appointments were booked for seven ( 70 per cent ) of the children whose teeth had not recently been inspected , and at least four of these had been carried out within three months of the first assessment .
4 Within three weeks of the first announcement , there were over 300 applications .
5 It certainly is the case that the Reagan administration was never able to duplicate the domestic policy triumphs of 1981 in the remaining three years of the first term .
6 Three quarters of the first tranche has been set aside for cleaning up Phuket and Pattaya .
7 In hexagonal close packing , a second layer sits on top of the first layer so that each sphere in the second layer is in contact with three spheres of the first layer ( see figure 3.22 ) .
8 On two or three afternoons of the first week winds may be a little daunting ; do n't be put off .
9 So , when the 1971 British Lions stretched Fergie McCormick this way and that when winning the First Test on Mains ' home ground , the All Black selectors decided that McCormick had to go , and Mains went on to play the remaining three Tests of the first rubber that the Lions had won in New Zealand .
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