Example sentences of "from the [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dominant factor , in relation to poor housing conditions , lack of proper sanitation , food shortages and growing unemployment , was the fact that the country had just emerged from the horrors of the First Great War . |
| 2 | This kind of ‘ motivational congruence between practitioners and clients ’ was generally missing from the studies in the first wave of effectiveness research , they suggest ( p. 338 ) . |
| 3 | A large brood is spawned , and it is recommended some of the developing fry be removed from the parents within the first two weeks of them becoming free-swimming , so as to achieve a high survival rate . |
| 4 | Even the city of Athens , not yet recovered from the devastations of the first century BC , had begun to flourish . |
| 5 | The society has five steam locomotives , one from a Welsh slate quarry , one from a Spanish coal mine , one from the trenches of the first world war . |
| 6 | Some sufferers , notably juveniles addicted to many drugs , commonly take six to eight weeks because their minds are still fogged from the drugs during the first week or two and because they have not been accustomed in their earlier lives to dealing with emotional pain except by recourse to mood-altering chemicals . |
| 7 | The EC seemed to have moved further away from the aims of the first stage of the Werner recommendations now that most exchange rates in the Community were floating against each other . |
| 8 | But as the field swung away from the stands for the first time it became clear that the grey would not have matters entirely to his liking , for first Kildimo and then Ten Of Spades kept him close company and would not allow him to dominate affairs . |
| 9 | From the margins of the First Dominion to Patashoqua and its satellite cities in the Fourth , voices were raised to stir rebellion . |