Example sentences of "of [noun] [noun sg] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | They gave him a bit of consultancy work for the first year , but after that he did n't know what he would do . |
| 2 | In Thailand in 1991 the falling incidence of chancroid approached that of herpes genitalis for the first time , reaching 0.22/1000 compared with an incidence of herpes genitalis of 0.18/1000 . |
| 3 | A unit should be up and running in three to six months with sales of $1m forecast for the first year . |
| 4 | Mr Corlett , aged 49 , who heads a nine-strong staff , said his selling success was due to Balkan Holidays offering flights out of Teesside Airport for the first time . |
| 5 | There are also a lot of advantages in acquisition accountancy which can provide a sort of beer mat for the first years while you are trying to put the businesses together , and of course we did n't have these in the merger . |
| 6 | In 1889 the Prevention of Cruelty and Protection of Children Act for the first time outlawed proven cruelty to children and allowed children in certain circumstances to be removed from their families to a place of safety , usually a charitable institution such as Barnardo 's . |
| 7 | Jamie was looking a little fragile and they browsed through coffee and a restrained bottle of house red for the first hour . |
| 8 | Observed values of rotation rate for the first 15 days ; as in Fig. 1 c , all values are residuals after allowing for the normal slowdown rate , the persistent increase in slowdown rate , and the 265-day component . |