Example sentences of "[adj -er] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loads on the structure are lower during the first half of the launch and it is not unusual to exceed the placard speed for a few seconds during the initial steepening of the climb . |
| 2 | So it 's now we 've got seven people , it 's gon na make it a lot easier for the first twenty containers which is forty containers in actual fact is n't it . |
| 3 | The position will be a little clearer after the first of the two individual time trials around Luxembourg on Monday 13 July . |
| 4 | Longman had a very , very er , very good increase in profits and the Addison Wesley loss , which is bigger in the first half than usual er , is n't something that bothers me particularly , I 'm really quite relaxed about full year performance , but just to make sure they 're er , attacking erm , expenses , travel , administration , that kind but nothing in the erm , book investment programme . |
| 5 | Also , 50% of the teenagers have an estimated hazard which is larger after the first three months , although more than half have a larger estimated reservation wage in the second period . |
| 6 | They are similar , but the initial mouth opening is larger in the first group than in the second . |
| 7 | ‘ I remembered the Factor 15 , better for the first day anyway . ’ |
| 8 | Coventry had the better of the first half , with Ndlovu and Robson demanding good saves from Seaman , while Smith had a shot blocked on the line by Winterburn . |
| 9 | They had slightly the better of the first half but a poor pass to Sleightholme lost one chance and then Sleightholme could not touch down a useful kick by Maynard , Stabler getting there first . |
| 10 | Manager Atkinson said : ‘ I thought QPR were having the better of the first half until Deano did what he 's good at — scoring a goal when there is not really anything on . |
| 11 | Middlesbrough had the better of the first half once they survived the opening quarter of an hour when Ironside , deputising for the injured Pears , kept them on terms . |
| 12 | Hull had the better of the first half struggle with Russ Wilcox their outstanding player , unlucky when his powerful header was tipped over the top . |
| 13 | But Scotland looked better in the first half when only penalties were scored . |
| 14 | On figures that are probably far too kind , real GNP was a staggering 8% lower in the first three months of this year than in the same period last year ; investment is dropping fast ; foreign trade has shrunk by a third . |
| 15 | So reported earnings would be lower in the first year and higher in the remaining four years with the declining balance method compared with the straight-line method . |
| 16 | Downstream , in light of high product stocks , industry refining margins in the USA and Europe are expected to be lower in the first quarter of 1993 than in the fourth quarter of 1992 . |
| 17 | It is my opinion that the heavy grade mesh with the narrower width ( 6 inches ) between verticals is by far the best value in the long run although considerably dearer in the first instance . |
| 18 | We also expect marketing margins to be weaker in the first quarter because of the effect on demand of the generally mild weather . |
| 19 | SHARE prices drifted lower on the first day of the new account as Wall Street 's poor showing on Friday and Tokyo 's earlier weak performance sapped confidence . |
| 20 | Lead levels from a system with lead piping are much higher in the first few pints that come from a tap that has been left turned off than after the water has run for a few minutes , as this flushes out much of the dissolved lead . |
| 21 | According to Ali , the Ayasofya medrese was already a 60-akce medrese In Mehmed II 's time ; and it appears generally to have been the case that it and , from the time of Bayezid II , the medrese of Murad II in Bursa ( the Muradiye ) and , more particularly , that of Bayezid II himself in Edirne , completed in 893/1488 , ranked higher in the first half of the sixteenth century than the Sahn in the sense that the muderrises appointed to them were normally promoted from the Sahn . |
| 22 | Only mortgage lending seems buoyant , running 18 per cent higher in the first two months of the year compared with a year ago . |
| 23 | These symptoms are usually worse in the first few days , lessening thereafter . |
| 24 | It is generally longer for a first baby and may take around 1620 hours . |
| 25 | The mean resting pressure in the lower oesophageal sphincter during the first 30 minutes of the recording was 17.6 ( 6.3 ) mm Hg . |
| 26 | Table 4 supports the primacy effect as recall is significantly greater for the first three words in the list . |
| 27 | I think that was much truer of the first series . |