Example sentences of "[num ord] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | First and second gear are nearly impossible to shift up and down , or from third to second for the first two miles in winter . |
| 2 | Mr Barrantes , 61 , bowed out of the 1985 presidential elections after coming second in the first ballot . |
| 3 | He defeated the emigré businessman Stanislaw Tyminski , who had surprisingly come second in the first round of the elections held on Nov. 25 [ see pp. 37840-41 ] , by 10,622,696 votes ( 74.3 per cent ) to 3,693,098 ( 25.7 per cent ) . |
| 4 | A 1-0 win keeps Swindon second in the first division . |
| 5 | The first year of a king ran from the day of his accession in one calendar year to the eve of the anniversary of that accession in the following , his second from the first anniversary of his accession to the eve of his second , and so on . |
| 6 | We need to encourage as many schools as possible to shift from the third to the second , and from the second to the first category . |
| 7 | The first comes at his baptism , the second at the first sermon he preached ( Mark 1:11 , Luke 4:18 ) . |
| 8 | Nottingham Forest are likely to stick with the same team that beats Notts County for tonight 's match against Millwall at the City ground the London club are currently eleventh in the First Division Forest will go above them if the Reds win . |
| 9 | A question worth asking is whether it will be easier to teach competent makers in the first three categories , in which engineers are well represented , enough about the work of the fourth to understand how a company works , or to teach the fourth about the first three to the same standard . |
| 10 | Driving a Mitsubishi with friend Silka Fritzinger , She finished 27th after the first day . |
| 11 | I I do n't think that 's a problem because we 're doing erm we 're doing two blocks of six and we 're onto the fourth of the first block now , but then the second block comes up in September and October , so it 's certainly in time for that . |
| 12 | His one-man show yesterday failed to prevent the Hammers moving to fourth in the First Division but it saved Pompey from embarrassment . |
| 13 | Alvaro Arzú was the former mayor of Guatemala City and co-founder with Alvaro Heredia ( the acting mayor ) of the right-wing National Advancement Party ( PAN ) , as whose candidate he came fourth in the first round of the election . |
| 14 | But he won in the end … a brilliant save from the kick kept Southend out … gave Swindon a point and took them back upto fourth in the first division |
| 15 | But he won in the end … a brilliant save from the kick kept Southend out … gave Swindon a point and took them back upto fourth in the first division |
| 16 | BY a margin of two minutes 40 seconds the Soviet yacht Fazisi , with co-skippers Alexei Gryshenko and the American Skip Novak , finished sixth in the first leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race to Punta del Este , Uruguay . |
| 17 | Gryshenko , co-skipper of the yacht Fazisi , which finished sixth in the first leg of the Whitbread Round the World race , left a note to his wife and parents . |
| 18 | Leicester lie sixth in the First Division after a midweek defeat at Charlton and may make a change of captaincy . |
| 19 | To take a team from the Fourth to the First in six years is n't bad going whatever style of football you play . ’ |
| 20 | Bentham dropped a sixth on the first end , then a two on the next and spent more than three hours trying to catch up . |
| 21 | I wonder what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first for the first time in his life ? |
| 22 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |
| 23 | But the 22-year-old — a lowly 12th after the first run — needed a helping hand from leader Patrice Bianchi , who fell with victory in his sights . |
| 24 | First of the first ninety four . |
| 25 | Effective first of the first first of the first ninety five . |
| 26 | Effective first of the first first of the first ninety five . |
| 27 | Thirty first of the first , that 's right , that 's where it ends . |
| 28 | Everybody talks about the five he had at the end and the last hole , but he missed less than a two-foot putt on the first in the first round . |
| 29 | They , the birds , are mentioned first in the first verse when Mac Caig is talking about Saint Francis as a ‘ talker with birds ’ . |
| 30 | Villa began the afternoon where they finished in May , one rung above the relegation places , although this time last year they stood fifth in the First Division . |