Example sentences of "[conj] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hotman 's case is particularly interesting in that where in the first version the word populus was used , in the 1576 edition the term ordines , meaning orders or estates , was inserted to " clarify " the meaning , or , we might suspect , to reassure those alarmed by the dangerously democratic sound of the first version . |
| 2 | However , it is too soon to say with any degree of certainty to what extent computerization spells the end of TNC jobs in the Third , or in the First World ( Caulkin , 1989 ) . |
| 3 | That inexperience was to prove disastrous , although in the first two financial years there was a £12.5m profit . |
| 4 | Although in the first war years the Party substantially cut down the number of meetings devoted to ‘ training ’ in ideological matters — which had never enjoyed much popularity — and concentrated in its regular work in the localities on trying to fulfil ‘ the popular demand for a more lively participation in the events of the day ’ , as one report put it , it was unable to build up much interest in Party work or to enhance the popularity of the local Party organizations . |
| 5 | What is clear is that this golden age did not exist in the mid 1950s , in the first part of this century nor in the first half of the last century . |
| 6 | He pointed to a ‘ desperate need to educate the population better ’ and said that in the first half of the Eighties the engineering workforce fell by a third and the number of graduates employed increased by half . |
| 7 | The schemes are locally run on a franchise basis , by voluntary organizations , schools or employers , and the hope is that in the first phase , up to 1993 , 10,000 people aged between sixteen and twenty-four — immediately dubbed ‘ Charlie 's Army ’ by the press — will join full- or part-time programmes of about twelve weeks . |
| 8 | County NatWest calculates that in the first half of the year to September 1991 , Hanson made £150m interest on its cash pile and £60m-70m from selling a subsidiary — in all , 37% of its total pre-tax profits of £588m . |
| 9 | It was certainly the case that in the first centuries the example of Jesus must have been a tremendous model for living and for dying . |
| 10 | He said Mr Smith 's statement meant that in the first full two years of a Labour Government , they would have to borrow around an extra £9.5 billion . |
| 11 | Although visiting grandparents was the basis of many significant memories and relationships , it is surprising that in the first set of interviews there are even more significant mentions of grandparents who at some point lived in the same house as their children . |
| 12 | It was further reported ( Danas , 10 November 1987 ) that in the first nine months of 1987 there were 17 rapes in Kosovo , every one of which was between two members of the same ethnic group , and that in this period the incidence of rape in Kosovo was lower than in other parts of Yugoslavia . |
| 13 | Notes by the Rector about his establishments survive and we learn that in the first year of the new Sunday School there were 45 male and 32 female attendees . |
| 14 | It therefore appears that in the first experiment a match between parts of the superficial representation of the passage was influencing the way that a deep anaphor , the pronoun they , was processed . |
| 15 | This , it was argued , suggested that in the first years of life the two hemispheres have similar linguistic abilities and that the left side became dominant only as speech itself developed . |
| 16 | These satellites and more recent balloon and rocket flights show that in the first six years of the 1970s the Sun 's radiation had increased by 0.2 per cent . |
| 17 | The statistics summarised in Table 3.8 show that in the first four months of 1985 , the number of people entering unemployment averaged 347,525 and the number leaving averaged 338,750 against a total unemployment figure of just over 3 m . |
| 18 | She told me that in the first dreadful night , when she and John stayed in the hospital , she had tried to soothe the time by the old paper game of making words out of words . |
| 19 | It conveniently marks the beginning of nineteenth-century poetry , though not of course the end of eighteenth-century readers , who lingered on till after 1832 , so that in the first three decades of the new century a great battle of taste was fought out , largely over Wordsworth 's ‘ simple ’ poetry . |
| 20 | Let us say that in the first place man is a creature responding intelligently or stupidly to his surroundings , much as an animal does . |
| 21 | CIMA , an original signatory , reports that in the first year it has ‘ set up an informal network to encourage women to stand for office on the Council ’ . |
| 22 | Indeed , City analysts reckon that in the first six months of 1992 listed companies ' dividends only increased by 2% as companies tried to improve their balance sheets and build up dividend cover . |
| 23 | UK Management Buyouts 1992 , the annual review for The Centre for Management Buyout Research at the University of Nottingham , notes that in the first half of 1992 , buyouts and buy-ins accounted for 29.6% of the value of all transfers of ownership in the UK and nearly 60% of the total number . |
| 24 | But sightings of the young lady continued and the curious point was that people used to say that in the first compartment next to the tender there would often be the strong scent of roses . |
| 25 | Walberg , Hose and Raster ( 1978 ) showed the significant relationship between LOR and proficiency in English with Japanese children in the USA , but also point out that the rate of learning slows down very quickly over time , so that in the first two months the child learns as much as he will in the next five months , the next year and so on . |
| 26 | They were prompted by new figures showing that in the first quarter of 1993 Britain 's GDP , excluding its output of crude oil , grew by 0.6% and its total GDP by 0.2% . |
| 27 | The upshot of these pressures for self-financing was that in the first ten years some 36 per cent of the industry 's investment was internally financed : £488 millions from depreciation allowances and £98 millions from surplus after interest payments . |
| 28 | We find that in the first month or so after the eruption , the large amount of SO 2 injected into the tropical atmosphere catalyses mid-stratospheric ozone production . |
| 29 | TI said that in the first quarter it will start knocking off Tsunami derivatives , differentiating features such as cache size , floating point and Sbus according to customer demand . |
| 30 | Here her expressive rubato is freer , so that in the first movement the opening theme is more impulsive , and her freedom in the second subject vividly conveys the sort of magic you find in her live performances . |