Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second-half power cut hardly mattered because Oldham , embarrassingly inept as three goals punctuated the first half , were not much better when they were allowed to play . |
| 2 | The shift from family ownership to full stockmarket-listings marked the first time when the owners of American firms ceased to manage them . |
| 3 | On March 7 the Iraqis released the first 1,000 of the Kuwaitis taken prisoner at the end of the Iraqi occupation , the total number of those abducted being given as some 7,000 . |
| 4 | Workers deserted the first union in droves . |
| 5 | However , technical hitches plagued the first night . |
| 6 | In Kirghizia on April 10 and Tadjikistan on April 12 the newly elected republican Supreme Soviets elected the first secretaries of their republican Communist Parties ( CP ) , respectively Absamat Masaliyev and Kakhar Makhkamov , to the post of Chairman ( i.e. President of the republic ) . |
| 7 | In 1971 , about 10% of marriages involved the first marriage of one party to a divorced partner and 4% involved the remarriage of two divorcees ; by 1989 , these proportions had risen to 19% and 13% respectively . |
| 8 | Erm now erm as regards when it happens to people erm , again going back to this B B C Childwatch Survey um of girls sixty percent reported that the first incident happened when they were ten , forty percent of boys reported the first incident occurred when they were under ten so it seems , if you look at the sort of average , averages are quite deceptive in this area but nevertheless if you look at the average um it seems to happen slightly earlier for girls than for boys . |
| 9 | Dutch settlers planted the first vineyard when they arrived in 1652 . |