Example sentences of "[prep] first [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 The relative risk of gastric cancer in cimetidine users decreased among men from 8.1 in the first year of follow up to a non-significant 1.3 7–11 years after first use of cimetidine ( Table V ) .
2 Castle has now decided that it is more prudent , and in line with the practice followed by many companies in the sector , to write off such costs at the point of first release of a new title .
3 It was not until 1963 that a reformist element was able to make itself heard , with the election to the position of first secretary of the Slovak party of Alexander Dubček .
4 Yet the chaos that occurred after the election , when Brown was put into the DEA with the grand title of First Secretary of State , showed to what paltry use Wilson had put his unique background ( unique , that is , since the death of his predecessor , Hugh Gaitskell ) as skilled Whitehall technocrat and top-flight politician and parliamentarian .
5 Ivan Polozkov , the conservative CPSU first secretary in Krasnodar kray ( territory ) who in May had been defeated by Boris Yeltsin for the post of President of the Russian Federation [ see pp. 37459-60 ] , was elected to the post of first secretary of the Russian Federation CP on June 23 .
6 Maria Edgeworth : Chosen Letters , 1931 ; Jack Simmons , introduction to Susanna Watts , A Walk Through Leicester ( facsimile of first edn. of 1804 ) , 1967 . ]
7 However , the first-order autocorrelation of first differences of the mispricing series was -0.23 , and this suggests that mispricings tend to be partially reversed within 15 minutes .
8 I felt I had to I When I went to school m my father could n't afford very much and erm I remember starting the first term of first day of the term with shoes with a big split in it .
9 The signing was unorthodox , many of the gestures modified and difficult to read ; there was no fingerspelling at all other than of first letters of names .
10 If agreement for mutual exchange is not reached at an early stage , the defendant will have the advantage of first sight of at least one of the plaintiff 's medical reports .
11 Speed of despatch of first payment of benefit to clients within 10 days and 15 days of claim
12 Applying these criteria , it seems to me that the type of deployment of nuclear weapons which can most clearly be argued to entail an illegal threat of force is one which involves a threat of first use of nuclear weapons .
13 England threw away the advantage of first use of a good if not lighting-fast pitch by crashing from 138 for 2 to 207 all out just before 5.30 pm .
14 Aftermath of first round of voting
15 K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour .
16 Ari was exhausted by the sheer weight of first impressions of the city .
17 Infancy and early childhood are the time of basic sexual development ; pre-puberty — despite the " latency " concept — is the phase of accommodation to social thinking and relationships , and of first establishment of gender identity ; adolescence itself is marked by an upsurge of sexual feeling , establishment of sexual identity and — perhaps to an increasing extent — first true sexual experience .
18 The data set was then stratified in the analysis by 5 year age groups , sex , calendar year of first diagnosis of case or control event , and district of residence at first diagnosis .
19 The end-product , as stated in section 223 , is that the company 's first ‘ financial year ’ begins with first day of its first accounting reference period , ( i.e .
20 Availability will coincide with first shipment of NT from Microsoft and will be about $500 but pricing will be finalised when the product ships .
21 But with first news of the British game , here 's Tim .
22 For many years the British Library has not acquired copies of books which are simply reprints of what they already have : that is , later editions identical in text and pagination with first editions of books popular enough to be reprinted .
23 A Restriction such as restrictive covenants is commonly contained in a transfer or ( before first registration of title ) a " Rule 72 transfer " , is noted on the Charges Register on the transaction being registered .
24 These are dusk to around 1.30 a.m. , and from first glimmer of light to an hour or so after sun-up .
25 Includes impressive archaeological treasures dating from first arrival of man in Ireland c. 7000 BC until late 17th century .
26 It was extended to the remaining foundation subjects in Wales , and the core subjects in first year of key stage 4 , from September 1990 .
27 Cyrix Corp of Richardson , Texas says its 64-bit superscalar competitor to Intel Corp 's Pentium processor is currently in the design stage : it may sound a little optimistic , but the company claims that it will ship in first half of 1994 .
28 Operating profit more than doubled to $13m in the half , from $5.8m in first half of the 1991-92 fiscal .
29 The venture , headquartered in Stockholm with Gothenburg and Grenoble bases , is expected to employ 350 people , and will begin operations in first quarter of 1993 .
30 In first quarter of 1994 a SuperSparc-II kicks in with first silicon around 65MHz and by the fourth quarter it should be up to 90MHz .
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