Example sentences of "for the first [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Literary Lionisers , having commanded their maids and valets , if they had them , to unpack , or if they had not , scurried through this tedious task themselves , were gathering for the first event of the week , the promenade around Dickens 's Broadstairs . |
| 2 | ‘ It is projected to average £33 billion annually to the turn of the century and grow to £45 billion a year for the first decade of the new century . |
| 3 | These meetings were a dress-rehearsal for the first session of the Council . |
| 4 | The minutes dragged while they listened for the first hum of the approaching helicopter . |
| 5 | The plates were developed for the first migration in a solvent saturated chamber consisting of chloroform/methanol/ammonium hydrate/water 184:105:7.5:7.5 vol and then dried in cold air . |
| 6 | Before lining up for the first race of the season it 's off to the now-standard bits-and-bobs shop , where you can spend up to $100,000 upgrading your jalopy . |
| 7 | O over this election , what you 've got ta do is every night , is if you 're interested is watch it for the first quarter of an hour of the news every night . |
| 8 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , facing probably the biggest crisis in its history now that it is confronted with an administration not prepared to pour ever more good taxpayers ' money after bad ( CI No 2,166 ) , yesterday reported that turnover for the first quarter of the year crashed by 10.6% , to the equivalent of $943m ; sales slumped 16.5% to $422m and rentals and services fell 5.1% to $521m . |
| 9 | And now facing probably the biggest crisis in its history , Bull last week reported that turnover for the first quarter of the year crashed by 10.6% , to the equivalent of $943m . |
| 10 | Thereafter , ‘ fly the line ’ , keeping a careful eye on drift and timing for the first quarter of the route , and replicating whatever heading is required for the next three- quarters , noting the times to the quarter-points . |
| 11 | The Marines swarmed into the tunnel like bubbles disappearing down a plughole , Mortimer at their head , eyes bright , looking for the first sign of the opposition . |
| 12 | The potential for the first management of the ‘ wildwood ’ may have been under-appreciated by researchers in the past , so that by the time the first people with a knowledge of agriculture arrived from Europe in the period before 4000 BC , the landscape may already have been greatly altered . |
| 13 | Figures for the first half of the year from the Building Societies Association showed that only around 54,360 people were in arrears with their mortgages . |
| 14 | For the first half of the last century , most European nations assumed that France would somehow try to repeat the project . |
| 15 | For the first half of the 1991 model-year ( which began on October 1st 1990 ) , Buick 's sales have risen by 6.6% , compared with an 8.8% fall in all American car sales . |
| 16 | For the first half of the nineteenth century the evidence is sparse , but some generalizations may be made . |
| 17 | FOR the first half of the year you should have plenty of attack , although you may be on the receiving end of a show of force . |
| 18 | HGCA figures for the first half of the 1992–93 season show Ipswich exporting ten per cent of all British wheat . |
| 19 | For the first half of the nineteenth century , these goals were admirably adhered to , as the society assembled mostly printed and written matter : books , letters , manuscripts , diaries , letters and newspapers , making it one of the most distinguished libraries in the country . |
| 20 | Alpine days stay reasonably warm for the first half of the month . |
| 21 | For the first half of the meeting the division was split into two large committees to work through the agreed agenda . |
| 22 | Between 1713 and 1763 they paid little attention to the colonies in America , and at least for the first half of the period it was hard to see what else could have been done . |
| 23 | Thus the inspiration for the first half of the more modern name of Horncastle . |
| 24 | If in doubt , keep two provisional subjects going for the first half of the first term — and then drop the one that appeals to you the less . |
| 25 | In a similar analysis for the first half of the 1970s , Keeble ( 1980 ) showed that the relative importance of these factors had changed . |
| 26 | Sales revenues for scholastic Publications Ltd reached £8.96m for the first half of the company 's financial year ( June to November 1992 ) , representing an increase of 23.5% over the same period in 1991 . |
| 27 | The company has just released the Interim Report showing the results for the first half of the current financial year . |
| 28 | For the first half of the period covered in this book , and again towards its end , England was involved in foreign wars . |
| 29 | For the first half of the fifteenth century , Gascony was under less pressure , probably because Henry V 's campaigns had shifted the bulk of military activity to northern France , but even so war had a serious effect on wine exports . |
| 30 | Not that she was destined to get any practice at such a mega-speed , since Downes , at least for the first half of the interview , was to enunciate his words with the slow deliberation of a stupefied zombie . |