Example sentences of "in [noun] in the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Sheffield in the first stage , when annuals and short-lived perennials move in , Oxford ragwort ( Senecio squalidus ) , knotgrass ( Polygonum aviculare ) , orache ( Atriplex hastata ) and fat-hen ( Chenopodium album ) are common . |
| 2 | Despite an intensification of fighting in Kashmir in the first half of 1990 talks with India continued , with the fourth round completed in April 1991 . |
| 3 | A report in the Financial Times of April 21 , summarizing interviews with economic officials , said that the next stage in the Russian government 's economic reform programme would include a relaxation of tight controls on budget spending , in force in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 4 | In Dundee in the first year more than 2,000 students applied to the access fund and more than £300,000 was allocated to them . |
| 5 | Mummification was not used in Syria in the first century , but the bodies may have been preserved in Egypt . |
| 6 | An increase in imports in the first half of 1992 caused the motor industry 's trade deficit to more than double to £1.37bn ( v £617m ) . |
| 7 | So whereas he had treated with the pro-English party in Scotland in the first half of 1543 , in 1544 it was the pro-French faction which was uppermost in his mind . |
| 8 | Even the Symbolist view ( which held sway in Russia in the first years of the century ) that ‘ art is thinking in images ’ can not be admitted , because although it acknowledges that thought in art takes a different form from conventional philosophy , it will in the end lead the study of art beyond art itself to forms of knowing and feeling , to epistemology and psychology . |
| 9 | Stanley kept in contention in the first half of the game but came to grief on the 11th end when they dropped a five . |
| 10 | The system is known to have been used in England in the first part of the eighth century , and continued to be employed by Anglo-Saxon kings until the tenth , when it fell into almost total disuse . |
| 11 | In Rugby Union , Chinnor and Swindon , they 'll be locked in combat in the first round of the Oxfordshire Courage floodlit Cup , and that match kicks off at the southern by-pass ground at seven fifteen . |
| 12 | The two sides agreed to hold the next round of talks in Beijing in the first half of 1992 . |
| 13 | If this were the case , the drop in population in the first half of the period could have been deeper and the subsequent recovery slower than existing replacement figures suggest . |
| 14 | This has fallen into disuse , having been used as a military hospital and to sleep troops in transit in the First World War , a Sunday school , a library , and up until five years ago a store for the church gardening equipment . |
| 15 | It was impossible to discuss the idea of Arab nationalism without mentioning Palestine , because the Arab political awakening occurred in the very years of Zionist settlement in Palestine in the first half of this century . |
| 16 | Back in Ephesians in the first chapter in in verse three , see it 's easy for us to say , well what a lot of stupid people they were ! |
| 17 | Most economists believe that the tighter squeeze on the economy would now lead to a more rapid deceleration in inflation in the first half of next year than had been expected before yesterday 's base rate increase . |
| 18 | The US Secretary of State James Baker and Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady were highly successful in efforts in the first half of September to reinforce the anti-Iraqi coalition by securing large-scale financial commitments , notably from Japan and West Germany , while Saudi Arabia and other smaller Gulf sheikhdoms contributed massively towards the cost of the US mobilization of forces . |
| 19 | English scribes were to be found living in Paris in the first quarter of the fourteenth century . |
| 20 | They had invested in junk in the first place because of government policy , accounting for 7% of bonds outstanding at the end of 1988 . |
| 21 | Wednesday were twice in trouble in the first half — Woods doing well to tip over a Marcus Marin shot , and Nigel Worthington clearing a Witeczek header off the line . |
| 22 | ASK any hard-headed financier , and he will tell you that debt relief never works : public money given to help struggling debtor nations will end up in the hands of the lenders — the banks whose over-readiness to lend helped to land the debtors in trouble in the first place . |
| 23 | After the reduction in profits in the first half of the year , profits in the second half improved . |
| 24 | There may be a significant fall in volume in the first year or so , but while the third party suppliers to Technology may feel that they have no alternative but to withdraw their products , they look like being the net losers as a result , while ICL sheds crocodile tears all the way to the bank . |
| 25 | That I am living in Britain in the first place has everything to do with the fact that I came here to start the magazine you are reading , a magazine for men . |
| 26 | He had served in France in the First World War , commanded West Point , and served as chief of staff of the army before his able leadership of the allied forces in the south-west Pacific from 1942 to 1945 . |
| 27 | Productivity growth in manufacturing in the first quarter at 3.8 per cent was higher than the same period a year earlier , but down on the five per cent improvement in the final three months of last year . |
| 28 | This is revealed in the latest figures from Barclays Bank , which said that sterling 's 15 per cent devaluation and the 4 per cent fall in interest rates following the UK 's withdrawal from the exchange rate mechanism in September 1992 had led to a sharp increase in business confidence in manufacturing in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 29 | In view of the rapid drop in morale in the first half of 1944 — with a short interruption in the first half of June — and the evidently growing unpopularity of the Nazi regime , the registered popular response to news of the plot against Hitler appears surprising . |
| 30 | And what monumental arrogance — to think that an evening in his company would be enough to wean her away from Rob — that was if she had been interested in Rob in the first place ! |