Example sentences of "three [noun pl] [conj] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time was 1.30 p.m. , three hours after the first count began . |
| 2 | If one adds that delay to the average of about three months before the first visit is made , one is talking about a possible delay of one year and three months before the application starts to receive the attention that is required before it can proceed . |
| 3 | The CAB did not grant the necessary exemption until 19 June — three days before the first plane was due to land at Newark . |
| 4 | As we have attempted in our previous books on further education succinctly to summarize the chief characteristics of the polytechnics , we intend therefore to restrict ourselves to a discussion of the ways in which they have developed in the three years since the first edition of this book was written . |
| 5 | And so , you know , on the business desk you might have three teams and the first team is only doing the first page and the opinion and the second team is doing a large amount of financial news and the third team is doing the company news , and then the erm there 's a graphics person who 's working on charts and stuff . |