Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | " What , " Graham said contemptuously , annoyed , " that tall bloke with the bleached hair in first year ? |
| 2 | She had made the right decision to first appease Rainald . |
| 3 | Students are encouraged to take a broad curriculum in first year , choosing up to 6 courses from the following : Origin and Diversity of Life ; Quantitative Biology ; Physics in the Life Sciences ; Life Science ; Human Population Biology ; Molecules and Cells ; Biological and Economic Systems ; and Chemistry for the Life Sciences ( two courses ) . |
| 4 | The degree to which publicans ‘ invested ’ for this reason in football is unknown but the pecuniary advantage at first sight seems doubtful . |
| 5 | Tony 's meal was a revelation — solid cholesterol from first forkful to last . |
| 6 | I 'm more concerned about erm future possibilities , not least the possibility that the , if we fight the next European election under first past the post system then of course there will need to be a further set of boundary changes in the very near future arising from the parliamentary boundary commission proposals and I hope that again that the minister will take the change in in his remarks a little later , to assure the house that this was , because of the time constraints and there are reasons for that that I 'll come to , but because of the time constraints that this was in fact just a one off proposal because its sad that party political considerations that the minister has eluded to , the difficulties that Conservative party had over the Maastricht bill , caused our boundary procedures to be tampered with at all in the U K. At the same time as we 're seeing er a welcome expansion of democratic forms in the rest of the world in erm Eastern and central er Europe , in South Africa for instance we see the erosion of these forms in the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | LEEDS UNITED 'S season threatens to crumble into ashes following the champions ' humiliating defeat by First Division Watford in the Coca-Cola Cup . |
| 8 | Peter , you 're teaching a very interesting course to first year students called ‘ Energy and Applied Physics ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Taylor ( Un ) , who was Assemblyman for Fermanagh and South Tyrone in 1973 , obtained a clear quota of first preference votes . |
| 11 | The Third World as a term needs to retrieve this lost positive sense — even if today the political order has changed so that to some extent the various forms of Islamic fundamentalism have taken over the role of providing a direct alternative to First and Second World ideologies . |
| 12 | The company , which is projecting a $80m to $100m loss for 1992 and a sizeable loss for first quarter of 1993 ended October 31 , also cut another 200 workers before Christmas . |
| 13 | LYMM DAM : Bream , skimmers and small roach are bound to provide lively fishing for first few weeks . |
| 14 | Preliminary studies have suggested that a high proportion of first year students experience homesickness . |
| 15 | Despite these caveats , Table 1.4 gives an interesting overview of first degree courses in two respects . |
| 16 | You may well find that it is scared of this unfamiliar sensation at first . |
| 17 | Common sense and a rudimentary knowledge of first aid would have saved him . ’ |
| 18 | In this way , we would generate our scientific theory of first impressions . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ( 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 : . |
| 29 | As Fig. 2 shows , the lower the median age at first marriage in a country , the more time elapses until the first birth occurs . |
| 30 | In other words , there is a negative correlation between median age at first marriage and at first birth . |