Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] first [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | he sometimes comes in and helps me out as well so very first class chap if you know anybody that needs a good headline writer Jack 's your man |
2 | The bells have far more impact , and tempos are more extreme — to the benefit of the first two fast movements , but to the detriment I think of the following two slow ones ( which reminded me why I had not responded more positively first time round ) . |
3 | Erm I 'm usually here first thing in the morning and |
4 | It was a fairly even first half and the teams entered the dressing room equal at 1–1 . |
5 | I was invariably out first throw . |
6 | ROBERT LEE has been promised a good reception today when First Division leaders Newcastle visit promotion rivals Charlton . |
7 | Erm so your confidence goes , your speed at working through it goes , you might find you 're going back and doing it again when it was right then first time . |
8 | These are almost certainly first records for these species . |
9 | He had the worst of all Test baptisms , in 1975 ; went further into his shell when heavily criticised for touring South Africa in 1982 ( a £25,000 libel settlement from the sun a compensation ) ; and found country captaincy too much first time round . |
10 | If we go on to books erm , I think that Longman performance is exceptionally good erm , of course for book business it 's very much first half , second half , most of the profit coming in second half , but er , erm , Longman only dropping seven percent on the year before seems to me a particularly good performance given the environment and in fact it generated more operating cash flow than the year before . |
11 | The pattern is very much first half er , erm , loss or small profit , second half all the profit and in fact you should watch out for the bigger , the bigger Addison Wesley gets , the more the loss in the second half will be because we 're investing for that sale |
12 | A very even first half ended with Mytchett one goal up . |