Example sentences of "end [prep] the first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the first decade of the 19th century , he had become quite prosperous and eventually established himself in one of the old Bradley furnaces , building Bradley House around 1817 . |
| 2 | At the end of the first year of this course students may , subject to satisfactory performance , transfer to the second year of the BSc Hons/Ord Applied Computing at Magee College ( see page 160 ) . |
| 3 | By the end of the first year of operation over 45,000 passengers had been carried , reflecting the latent demand for air transport in that environment . |
| 4 | At the end of the first year of CCT one study found that local councils had ‘ succeeded in keeping four out of five contracts in-house — but at the cost of substantial job losses among lower paid workers ’ ( The Independent 28. 11.89 : 11 ) . |
| 5 | By the end of the first year of revolution they had ten thousand members , so they erm increased in size ten times in the space of about six months . |
| 6 | The observations invariably show that the risk of dying before reaching the end of the first year of life is higher for infants born to mothers who were closer to the lower and upper limits of the reproductive period than to those who were in the prime of their childbearing ages . |
| 7 | Satisfactory performance in this course work will be a condition of up-grading from probationary to full research status at the end of the first year of study . |
| 8 | The letter quoted above was begun at Didcot Station , then continued at his Cowley Road digs , and rounded off at the end of the first day of the Scholarship exam after six hours of hard writing . |
| 9 | On the other hand , the tender offer by Hillsdown Holdings resulted in a stagging profit as the price at the end of the first day of trading was 33p higher than the striking price of 145p ( minimum 120p ) . |
| 10 | In the human female , meiosis commences towards the end of the first trimester of fetal development and , with increasing gestational age , more and more cells enter the prophase stages of leptotene , zygotene and pachytene . |
| 11 | An editorial error resulted in the wrong reference being given at the end of the first sentence of the second paragraph of this editorial by Tom Keighlty and Jan Maycock ( 28 November 1992 , p 1310 ) . |
| 12 | Two more of the nave lights had been switched on but the church was still dim compared with the harsh glare of the arc lights trained on the scene and it took him a minute to locate Father Barnes , a dark shape at the end of the first row of chairs under the pulpit . |
| 13 | ; whereas from the end of the first half of 1979 to the third quarter of 1991 , there has been an increase of nearly 6 per cent . |
| 14 | The end of the first half of The Form is concerned with clarifying the ordering of inner life — laying the fire — through an analysis of the human capacity for sin . |
| 15 | Short , playing black , dominated the game throughout , and at the end of the first session of play on Tuesday he had a clear advantage in an endgame with superior pieces and a very strong passed pawn . |
| 16 | At the end of the first session of the 97th Congress , Helen Dewar reported in the Washington Post : Even one of Reagan 's severest critics , Tip O'Neill , the former Speaker of the House of Representatives , does not underestimate Reagan 's early achievements : ‘ ( He ) pushed through the greatest increase in defense spending in American history together with the greatest cutbacks in domestic programs and the largest tax cuts the country has ever seen . ’ |
| 17 | At the end of the first session of interviews , there was inevitable frustration . |
| 18 | Erm , we 're coming as it were to the end of the first part of the proceedings , er , but , I 'd like to give a brief thanks to the er , C R group , that 's the Charities Recruitment Group , for the part sponsorship of this A G M Conference . |
| 19 | At the end of the first hour of prayer the Sergeant who had branded Lexandro — Sergeant Zed Juron — summoned him and Valence and Tundrish and another cadet , Omar Akbar , the number that would make a squad of Scouts , in fact . |
| 20 | By the end of the first hour of trading , the 100-index had fallen 5.2 to 3052.1 . |
| 21 | The predicted 140 per cent increase in traffic in Britain by the end of the first quarter of the next century was an ‘ unacceptable option ’ , said Chris Patten . |
| 22 | Hoccleve 's death marked the end of the first quarter of the fifteenth century . |
| 23 | The situation today is very muddled , software is available for both the Apple Macintosh and the IBM PC and its compatibles but even more is just around the corner and it wo n't be until towards the end of the first quarter of next year that the market will have stabilised . |
| 24 | League Cup finalists Hibernian are holding a two point lead at the end of the first quarter of Premier Division matches , ahead of Aberdeen , Kilmarnock and Motherwell . |
| 25 | As we fast approach the end of the first section of the calendar , it is time to gather information for the July — December section . |
| 26 | At the end of the first term of her third year , Robyn resigned from all her commitments in order to prepare for Finals . |
| 27 | At the end of the first month of the 1916–17 season City reached new goal-scoring heights , showing a ‘ superiority over the opposition to an extent seldom met with in first class football ’ ( Yorkshire Evening News ) . |
| 28 | On this question of construction I was in a judicial minority of one at the end of the first hearing of this appeal . |
| 29 | Gary Moore uses an idea similar to this at the end of the first verse of the track Story Of The Blues , from his ‘ After Hours ’ album . |
| 30 | The former Conservative minister and company chairman was being cross-examined at the end of the first week of his libel action against historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy and property developer Nigel Watts , who circulated a pamphlet in 1987 saying the peer was responsible for repatriating 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs to be massacred by the communists in 1945 . |