Example sentences of "it [verb] the first [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to a book I 've got it says the first ten games of that glorious start saw is in with 5 wins and five draws ( we then went and lost to palace in the last minute ) . |
| 2 | The chance of it getting the first two letters-ME-right is the chance of it getting the second letter- E-right ( 1 in 27 ) given that it has also got the first letter — M — right , therefore 1/27 x 1/27 , which equals 1/729 . |
| 3 | First , it omits the first two years of the Thatcher government 's record , when output fell 3.5 per cent . |
| 4 | However it claims the first three months of 1993 have proved profitable and reported that debt amounted to less than $3.3m . |
| 5 | It spans the first 15 years of the disease , from its appearance in the early 1950s to the Japanese government 's official statement that mercury pollution was to blame . |
| 6 | Just left of Engineers Slabs ( indeed it shares the first 15 metres ) i s Snicker Snack ( E2 5c , 5b ) . |