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Example sentences of "[art] first or [art] " in BNC.

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1	This is not , of course , the only or the first or the commonest use of the word ; we have borrowed it from people who believe in gods .
2	It would not be the first or the last time .
3	Newton was not the first or the only great scientific thinker of the time .
4	( d ) Both operands are in accumulators and the result replaces the contents of one of the accumulators , whether the first or the second usually being fixed for a particular computer ( as with two-address instructions ) .
5	In none of these cases does either the first or the second element qualify as a semantic constituent :
6	As the view from its windows alters at sunset ‘ into a distant phantom ’ , so too will the house , ‘ not the first or the last of beautiful things that look so near and will so change ’ .
7	I think it 's the around about the first or the second of April .
8	The first or the second ?
9	Lack of rigorous endoscopic criteria defining variceal haemorrhage such as those described by Buset et al , lack of standardisation for the time of entry , non-uniform management of the variceal haemorrhage during the whole study period , analysis of either the first or the recurrent episodes of haemorrhage and differences in patient sampling or variables recorded may all have a part in explaining the contradictions among some of the studies published on this matter .
10	Here the choice is still simple : either the first or the second syllable will be stressed — not both .
11	not the first or the fourth it must have been one of those in the middle , but I 'm not sure which one it was .
12	His classmates started , started to curse erm to curse him and to humiliate him I think from the first or the second grade , and erm he was my friend , I had to , to fight for him .
13	Errors made in the learning of a language , whether it is a first or a second one , are often indicative of the range and type of strategies used .