Example sentences of "last [noun sg] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Copy the last sentence of the first paragraph and insert it as a separate paragraph at the end of the task , one clear line space below the paragraph starting ‘ NOISE … ‘ |
| 2 | Delete the last sentence of the first paragraph |
| 3 | Leeds also had the ball in the net with the last kick of the first half but it was disallowed for no apparent reason . |
| 4 | A quick break by St Albans in the last minute of the first half saw Ian Plummer score into an open net to give his side a 2–0 half time lead . |
| 5 | In the last minute of the first hour |
| 6 | The turning point for Hunt came in the last race of the first half of the season when Lauda retired from the French Grand Prix with a rear mechanical fault and Hunt took full advantage by winning . |
| 7 | FORMER England goalkeeper Peter Shilton was sent off last night for the first time in his long career . |
| 8 | What came was a sort of double-image — the boy I had known up to yesterday , young , grubby , entertaining , kind , lively , with his impish , monkey-plainness ; and the face I had seen last night for the first time , a face wiped clean of everything but rapture and tenderness and astonishment , a different face , a face to love and find beautiful . |
| 9 | CELTIC savoured victory over Hibs at Parkhead last night for the first time since Liam Brady took over as manager , thanks to a couple of well-taken goals from Andy Payton . |
| 10 | CELTIC savoured victory over Hibs at Parkhead last night for the first time since Liam Brady took over as manager , thanks to a couple of well-taken goals from Andy Payton . |
| 11 | THE dinosaur film epic Jurassic Park looks like being a runaway success judging by the reaction of audiences who packed cinemas in New York last night for the first showing of the film . |
| 12 | Too determined for her own good really , which was why he had had to agree to last night in the first place . |
| 13 | The yield to maturity on the active-issues index of Donaldson , Lufkin & Jenrette , a Wall Street brokerage , fell below 19% last month for the first time since September . |
| 14 | Unadjusted unemployment , which topped three million last month for the first time since 1987 , fell by 19,451 to 3,042,614 — 10.8 per cent of the workforce . |
| 15 | Government statistics showed the number of people without work fell last month for the first time in more than two years |
| 16 | And if we turn er to the last page of the first appendix , we can see the boundary of the conservation area . |
| 17 | With the bursting of the bubble , land prices fell last year for the first time in 17 years . |
| 18 | Last year for the first time there were European dressage titles in two categories : Werth won the conventional Special , while Rothenberger took the freestyle . |
| 19 | IBM , which announced a major restructuring after plunging into the red last year for the first time in its history , made an after-tax profit of $595m in the three months ending March . |
| 20 | The under-21s are more even highly-fancied to retain the national title , which they won last year for the first time by beating Nottinghamshire in the final . |
| 21 | Rural living standards in most areas had improved significantly in the 1980s , but last year for the first time they fell back . |
| 22 | Last year for the first time , Nuclear Electric was able to operate the Dungeness B nuclear power station at over 1200MWe , largely thanks to an AEA computer-based reactor protection system . |
| 23 | Last year for the first time we were charged £10.58 for an audit certificate — something District Audit assure me takes a few minutes to complete and is provided free of charge by most banks . |
| 24 | FRENCH exports of wines and spirits fell last year for the first time in 20 years as recession caught up with one of the country 's proudest industries . |
| 25 | I read them both again erm last year for the first time for many years , and I found Herodotus much the better of the two , because Herodotus was prepared to be curious about everything . |
| 26 | His publication last year of the first matchbox grip catalogue has , he says , not contributed to the sudden rise in prices . |
| 27 | Born Edith Keefe in Londonderry , Northern Ireland , after her first husband died she married a lance corporal in the Military Foot Police , in Southampton during the last year of the First World War . |
| 28 | The Wolfson Archaeological Science Laboratories , which were opened last year in the first phase of the institute 's development plan , represent the latest advances in archaeology and incorporate modern developments in technology . |
| 29 | Because we had evidence that memories of the exercise tended to fade quickly , it was decided to exclude schools which had submitted reports at the very earliest stage ( autumn 1980 to summer 1981 ) , and schools which were not due to submit reports until the last stage of the first cycle ( autumn 1985 to early 1986 ) were also excluded because they could not be expected to have made much of a start on the process . |
| 30 | I called for the last time at the first house in the village and pressed the buzzer , but on getting no reply resigned myself to the long walk down the mountain . |