Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a first " in BNC.

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1 ( b ) Where in addition there is a second charge If the former matrimonial home to be conveyed or transferred to the wife is subject to both a first and second charge it may be that whilst the first mortgagee is prepared to release the husband , upon having a direct covenant by the wife , the second mortgagee is not so agreeable .
2 This very well presented terraced property offers ideal accommodation for either a first time buyer or a growing family .
3 All regions have now drawn up at least a first round of projects for inclusion on the shopping lists .
4 Nevertheless , several of the experimental novelists mentioned above actually began their careers in the 1930s ; Samuel Beckett , Lawrence Durrell , Malcolm Lowry , Flann O'Brien and Jean Rhys each having published at least a first novel by the time Finnegans Wake appeared in 1939 .
5 Yet it also represented at least a first step towards an institutional framework for dialogue between State and commoners .
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