Example sentences of "from the first [noun] in the " in BNC.

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1 The wall of molten lava has come to a virtual halt 150 yards from the first home in the town , but officials said yesterday that its flow appeared to have picked up speed further up the slope .
2 The University is in the process of implementing a new payroll system , which is planned to become live with effect from the first payment in the forthcoming tax year — i.e. from April 1992 .
3 Air refuelling has come a long way from the first attempts in the thirties where the co-pilot literally popped out and grabbed the hose .
4 A notice in the porch stated that the church-keys were available from the first house in the village .
5 For most of the period , from the first conquests in the fourteenth century until the rise of the South Slav nationalist movements in the nineteenth century , the empire was either preparing for a war against its Christian neighbours , fighting a war or recovering from a war .
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