Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The degree to which publicans ‘ invested ’ for this reason in football is unknown but the pecuniary advantage at first sight seems doubtful . |
| 2 | It all happened so quickly that Shepherd at first gave Miandad out . |
| 3 | Roberts finished with 10 for 123 , and then watched his colleagues make little attempt at first to get the runs . |
| 4 | this decision would be more helpful to sentencers in the Crown Court if the Court had indicated what the proper sentence at first instance would have been . |
| 5 | It is true , these same trivial errors did cause me some anxiety at first , but once I had had time to diagnose them correctly as symptoms of nothing more than a straightforward staff shortage , I have refrained from giving them much thought . |
| 6 | You may well find that it is scared of this unfamiliar sensation at first . |
| 7 | His wife had disapproved of this development at first — he suspected that she had paired off Damien and Clare in her mind — but when it transpired that Mark had been baptized a Catholic , and when he started to go to Mass again , she had become favourably disposed to the idea of their going out together . |
| 8 | We therefore performed the analysis on 172 patients : the median age at first intercourse was 17 ( interquartile range 16–19 ) years , and the median number of sexual partners was 4 ( interquartile range 2–10 ) partners . |
| 9 | Thus , in most WFS countries in the Western Hemisphere and East & South-East Asia & Oceania regions , among the women who were aged 25–29 when interviewed , median age at first marriage or union was about 20.2 and 18.8 , respectively , and the median age at first birth ( i.e. the age at which half of them had already had a birth ) was around 21 years ( between 19 and 24 years in individual countries ) . |
| 10 | Thus , in most WFS countries in the Western Hemisphere and East & South-East Asia & Oceania regions , among the women who were aged 25–29 when interviewed , median age at first marriage or union was about 20.2 and 18.8 , respectively , and the median age at first birth ( i.e. the age at which half of them had already had a birth ) was around 21 years ( between 19 and 24 years in individual countries ) . |
| 11 | Among the 39 developing countries that participated in the WFS , there is a strong correlation between the median age at first marriage or union and the median age at first birth among women aged 25–29 years at the time of the survey . |
| 12 | Among the 39 developing countries that participated in the WFS , there is a strong correlation between the median age at first marriage or union and the median age at first birth among women aged 25–29 years at the time of the survey . |
| 13 | Thus , in a group of 15 countries where median age at first marriage was between 15.2 and 18.3 years , the median age at first birth fell in the range of 18.6–19.9 years , irrespective of whether , within that age range women in that country married earlier or later . |
| 14 | Thus , in a group of 15 countries where median age at first marriage was between 15.2 and 18.3 years , the median age at first birth fell in the range of 18.6–19.9 years , irrespective of whether , within that age range women in that country married earlier or later . |
| 15 | On the other hand , from about age seventeen and a half , the higher the median age at first marriage , the higher the median age at first birth , too . |
| 16 | On the other hand , from about age seventeen and a half , the higher the median age at first marriage , the higher the median age at first birth , too . |
| 17 | ( For 19 countries , where median age at first marriage was 17.4 years or more , the slope of the regression line is steeper ; the regression equation is : . |
| 18 | As Fig. 2 shows , the lower the median age at first marriage in a country , the more time elapses until the first birth occurs . |
| 19 | In other words , there is a negative correlation between median age at first marriage and at first birth . |
| 20 | On average , the interval between the median age at first marriage and at first birth is two years . |
| 21 | The relationship between early marriage and later infecundity also stands if the proportion of infecund women is regressed on the median age at first marriage . |
| 22 | The correlation between median age at first marriage and infecundity at ages 20–24 years is negative and as strong as in the case of proportion married at exact age 16 years . |
| 23 | ( See also median age at first marriage ) . |
| 24 | MEDIAN AGE AT FIRST MARRIAGE ( or AT FIRST BIRTH ) — It relates to a central tendency in the age of first marriage ( or first birth ) of women ( or of a specified group of women ) . |
| 25 | Their violent , witty , literate affair at first amused and intrigued their friends at a time when life was grim . |
| 26 | Second division Action recorded a superb 2-1 success at first division Seymour ( Paul Brown ) , Tony Dixon and Alan Anderson scoring in a fine team display . |
| 27 | He would make a living as an artist — probably just a commercial artist at first , until his name became known — and she could do , whatever she wanted . |
| 28 | The arrangement of the Local Management of Schools is one of the best initiatives of the Conservative Government and it has freed schools from the heavy-handed control of Local Government , and in particular that of Labour controlled Authorities because it 's a step into the unknown for some , with obviously some doubt at first , and many Labour Groups fed on those doubts with lies and threats but nevertheless it was taken up wholeheartedly by many schools . |
| 29 | Lewis opposed the idea that Parliament should let the scheme be taken out of its hands and said that the Government would apply for a vote during the session to acquire land for the Foreign Office at first , followed by land for other offices . |
| 30 | Go south descending over rocky terrain at first to reach a track heading south-west along a ridge to reach Craig Llugwy spur ( 678 632 ) . |