Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Queen Mary 's Hospital at Sidcup has cancelled all waiting-list surgery for ‘ at least ’ five weeks after more patients than planned were treated in the first five months , producing a £205,000 overspend on top of £200,000 it has to find for under-funded pay awards and other pressures . |
| 2 | All manner of Masters records were broken over the first 36 holes . |
| 3 | Scenes of disorder on a smaller scale were reported in the first two weeks of February in Laghout , Constantine , Tiaret , Medea ( where disturbances lasted six days ) , Bourj Menail , Mascara , various suburbs of Algiers and elsewhere . |
| 4 | Only two cases of gonorrhea were reported in the first 19 months , compared with four a week previously . |
| 5 | German and Swiss lead managers were dominant between 1975 – 79 , but US houses became increasingly important during the 1980s , and by 1984 – 85 three US houses and the US/Swiss CSFB were included in the first five . |
| 6 | ‘ I had no regrets about missing the tour , ’ Cranmer explains , ‘ as both the centres were injured in the first two matches . |
| 7 | The VAS were averaged over the first 3 days of admission ( any patient with data missing was omitted from the analysis ) and these means compared by Mann-Whitney U tests . |
| 8 | More than 2.7 million new houses were built in the first ten years of nationalisation , and 1954 , the peak year of Macmillan 's housing drive , saw 354000 completed . |
| 9 | In Mary 's reign , between 1542 and 1574 , when the civil war which followed her deposition was finally over , there were twenty-five large-scale bonds involving groups of people , five of which were made in the first six years of the minority , as well as the thirty-six individual bonds made mainly for political purposes by Arran and Mary of Guise , and the two by Beaton which , in view of the comment by John Knox about the extensive number of his bonds , can only be a small proportion of the total . |
| 10 | Isolated vesicles were used in the first direct demonstration of Na + /H + exchange , by Murer in rabbit jejunum . |
| 11 | Ten days were needed on the first few clauses alone . |
| 12 | Since in North Rhine-Westphalia the SPD won 38 constituency seats , it was entitled to 24 additional members and these were supplied by the first 24 available candidates on its list . |
| 13 | Serum calcium and albumin concentrations were measured for the first 7 days and at least weekly for 4 weeks after treatment . |
| 14 | In The Managerial Grid 111 ( over a million copies were sold of the first two editions alone ) Blake and Mouton accuse Fleishman of ‘ faulty formulation and lack of demonstrated validity . ’ |
| 15 | Just over two hundred thousand vehicles were sold in the first six months of this year , a rise of thirteen per cent on the year before . |
| 16 | Three hundred were sold in the first two days . |
| 17 | Not surprisingly , despite poor resistance to water penetration and poor durability , 30,000 pairs of the new boots were sold in the first 12 months . |
| 18 | The church councils which were called in the first three decades of the fifteenth century gave each side reason and opportunity to seek support for its own attitude to the war before the remainder of Christendom . |
| 19 | The ideas of Marx and Engels were introduced by the first International ( 1864–76 ) , which had sections in several Latin American countries . |
| 20 | However considerable problems were experienced in the first growth-room trial . |
| 21 | Seventy thousand retail jobs were axed in the first three months of this year . |
| 22 | 103 youths were arrested in the first four weeks , but there are porblems , sometimes in radio communications and it has been at a cost . |
| 23 | Over 500 meals were served in the first two weeks and new activities launched . |
| 24 | The tide would carry them inland at least two miles and possibly three before they were beached on the first low ridge that had been the coastline a million years before the birth of Christ . |
| 25 | The dangers of hepatitis B infection were discussed at the First International Congress on Occupational Health for Healthcare Workers , which was held in Freiburg , Germany in September.The Congress was organised by the International Commission on Occupational Health ( ICOH ) and the Freiburg Institute for Occupational and Social Medicine ( FFAS ) . |
| 26 | They were encouraged by the first major decentralization of employment . |
| 27 | Four separate military task forces were deployed in the first major military deployment of the Bush presidency , with the Pentagon keen to show that if the traditional threat in central Europe was declining , it was ready to project US power elsewhere in the globe . |
| 28 | With corporal punishment abolished as a judicially imposed sentence , and capital punishment diverted , at least for a time , to a committee room in Whitehall , the decks were cleared for the first real post-war scrutiny of penal policy and methods . |
| 29 | The Secretary of State must be aware that 125,000 jobs were lost in the first 10 weeks of 1992 . |
| 30 | The moods and emotions of each were expressed in the first three movements . |