Example sentences of "at [adv] the first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably a majority would recommend treatment of the female sexual partner(s) with at least the first attack of NSU , but , as with gonorrhoea where up to one third of female gonorrhoea contacts can be shown not to have the disease , such a policy of treatment without diagnosis is bound to lead to a certain amount of overtreatment . |
| 2 | In my own survey of visitors to the British Museum in which teams of five interviewers worked for four separate weeks interviewing at the museum entrances I made sure that I was present for at least the first day of each survey and was available by phone during the rest of the time . |
| 3 | Those currencies which currently belong to the exchange rate mechanism and are not perceived by the markets as likely to join at least the first echelon of a single currency may come under pressure in the market . |
| 4 | Through at least the first half of Gravity 's Rainbow , Pynchon follows a method of pursuing multiple plot-lines around and across Slothrop 's search . |
| 5 | Indeed , it is the implications of the changing age structure of the population of pensionable age and the likelihood of a continuation of that trend into at least the first decade of the twenty-first century which have been the chief concern of social planners and welfare economists , rather than the proportion of the total population entitled to draw retirement pensions . |
| 6 | Biological anthropology in the present context considers infants and their care within an evolutionary perspective , arguing that over the millions of years it has taken for humans to evolve , infant-parent contact was likely to have been virtually constant for at least the first year of life . |
| 7 | Therefore for at least the first year of Council Tax I have included a separate section to deal exclusively with Poll Tax residue issues , although in practice many of these posts will need to be filled by temporary secondments back from Council Tax structures , staff unsuccessful in obtaining permanent positions initially within the Council Tax structure and temporary staff . |
| 8 | Sumitomo Metal Industries , Japan 's third-largest steel company , has abandoned at least the first phase of a big refinancing scheme . |