Example sentences of "of [num] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teale damaged knee ligaments against Spurs on Saturday which will bring an end to an unbroken run of 70 matches in the first team . |
| 2 | There had been a total of eight candidates in the first round of voting on March 4 , after an agreement in December 1989 between the various political groupings to end the previous one-party system . |
| 3 | He was started on intravenous amiodarone at a rate of 300 mg over the first hour followed by 900 mg over the next 24 hours . |
| 4 | Miroslav Sladek , the leader of the Republicans and the only candidate , won a total of 58 out of 300 votes in the first poll and 60 in the second poll . |
| 5 | Miroslav Sladek , the leader of the Republicans and the only candidate , won a total of 58 out of 300 votes in the first poll and 60 in the second poll . |
| 6 | Laboratory results showed an increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate of 44 mm in the first hour , a raised C reactive protein value of 49 mg/l . |
| 7 | York 's fly half Andy Brown provided a cracking start , succeeding with two out of three penalties in the first eight minutes , Novos ' Richard Calman reducing the arrears with a hotly disputed penalty which passed nearly a yard wide of the target . |
| 8 | Latest UK government figures for bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE or " mad cow disease " ) report an incidence of 10,729 cases in the first four months of 1992 . |
| 9 | The appointments are for a fixed term of 12–18 months on the first instance . |
| 10 | A home win is a treat yet to be enjoyed by manager Don Howe and is endangering the club 's proud record of 25 years in the First Division , a tenure bettered only by Arsenal , Everton and Liverpool . |
| 11 | Iraq had accused the UAE , along with Kuwait , of undermining international oil prices by exceeding its agreed OPEC quota of 1,100,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , producing an average of 1,800,000 bpd in the first eight months of the year [ see p. 37631 ] . |
| 12 | Those in the lower group of six would play a total of 36 matches with the first two teams keeping their place in the Premier Division while the rest would be relegated in 1994 . |
| 13 | They correctly point out ‘ that the half-life of sumatriptan is 2 hours ’ and ‘ the intervals between drug administration and cerebral infarction of 1 week in the first case and 12 hours in the second , exonerate sumatriptan ’ , but they then go on to state ‘ no other risk factor for vascular disease was identified in our patients ’ . |
| 14 | The ANC said in a statement after a stormy two-day leadership meeting in Johannesburg that it would accept multi-party government for a maximum of five years from the first one-person , one-vote election . |
| 15 | A meeting of a licensing board can not be adjourned beyond the period of one month from the first day of the meeting . |
| 16 | The output probe order of the annealing is then broken into a set of probe contigs , with either no or very few clones connecting the last probe of one contig to the first probe of the next . |
| 17 | And on the next day the Zuwaya did indeed muster a majority of 117 votes in the first count . |
| 18 | Five clubs would go down from a reformed league of 14 clubs in the First Division , with the Second Division champions being promoted . |
| 19 | When servicemen were demobilised in 1918 they were given a free unemployment insurance policy which entitled them to an ‘ out-of-work-donation ’ for a maximum of twenty-six weeks during the first twelve months following their demobilisation . |
| 20 | Two guineas were paid for the use of the engine and hose , with payment of two shillings for the first hour and one shilling per hour afterwards for firemen , and one shilling for the first hour and six pence afterwards for pumpers . |
| 21 | Hunting in pairs : Nottingham flanker Matt Greenwood supports Northampton fullback Ian Hunter , scorer of two tries in the first ‘ test ’ … |
| 22 | There is a very useful collection of 111 vessels of the first half of the first century under ‘ Belgic Verulamium ’ ; a group of 18 vessels from the filling of an unfinished well-shaft dated by a coin of Pius ( 145 — 161 ) ‘ lost in fair condition ’ , and a stamp of the samian potter GERMINVS who is also found on the Antonine Wall ( 142 — 163 ) ; a pit group ( Pit 6 , Insula V ) of 14 vessels with a coin of Pius ( 154 — 155 ) ; 9 vessels from Triangular Temple , from the filling between two floors of the courtyard ; there follows 9 more vessels , from different places , and 15 predating the S.E. gate , and finally , there are 7 from Pit 5 in building IV , considered as late fourth and possibly fifth century . |