Example sentences of "[prep] the first and second " in BNC.

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1 22 Cadenzas for the first and second movements of the C major keyboard concerto , K.246 1b & 2b .
2 He then quoted Hunt 's estimates for the first and second prizewinning schemes and pointed out the saving achieved with Scott 's modified scheme .
3 and Margaret Casey ( both of the New Zealand Bar ) for the first and second respondents .
4 Labour demand is denoted generally by where N denotes the number of workers demanded , w is the wage rate , and the subscripts are the usual notation for the first and second order derivatives .
5 It had been suggested that the Russians ' use of an ineligible player , Mikhail Rusayev , during the first and second rounds could open the door for the English club 's return , in the manner of Leeds ' dramatic European Cup reprieve .
6 HISTORIC war department buildings in Essex are being restored to their former glory.Jobless volunteers have started clearing overgrowth from around the wartime buildings at Beacon Hill , Harwich , paving the way for full restoration work in the future.The work is being organised by NACRO , the National Association for the Care and Rehabilitation of Offenders , on behalf of the Essex Training and Enterprise Council.Project supervisor Ray Rawlinson said the 18 people working at Beacon Hill were long-term unemployed and did not have criminal records.The buildings date back to the Napoleonic wars were updated during the first and second world wars .
7 Should women continue to weight train in pregnancy and be allowed to engage in intense exercise during the first and second trimesters of pregnancy ?
8 Cohen et al ( 1988 ) reported two case histories of runners who , unaware that they had conceived continued intense running regimes during the first and second trimesters of pregnancy ; both women had assumed their amenorrhoea was due to endurance training .
9 Later research showed that they were in fact storehouses and workshops , attached to hut-dwelling communities during the first and second centuries AD : quernstones were found in such a cellar at Barns of Airlie , and a chamber in a Carlungie souterrain seems to have been used for both stone and metal working .
10 When human society became more developed , achieving an efficient order under one ruler during the First and Second Dynasties , divine power was anthropomorphised and deities began to take human form .
11 The welcome feature about SuperCalc 5.5 's Fast Graphing facility is that when you include text that you want to use as the first and second titles and as the graph legend in the range you highlight , they will automatically be added to the chart that results when you click on the icon GPH .
12 The name and classification must be entered as the first and second parameters ; thereafter parameters may be entered in any order .
13 Official figures out yesterday indicated that British consumers saved at the lowest rate for 31 years while living standards actually declined 0.6 per cent between the first and second quarters of the year .
14 It is nearly a quarter of a century — longer than the periods between the first and second world wars — since Labour last had the support of as many as four votes in 10 .
15 The 40-year gap between the First and Second Empires had in no way diminished the ability of these people to perform their functions properly and with dignity , and it should not be thought that the Court of Napoleon III had a sort of second-hand quality about it .
16 It should be checked twice ; once before and then again after the second sound signal , since the race team are allowed to move the line between the first and second sound signals .
17 You stood in the gutter , on the edge of the pavement , held the corner of a card between the first and second fingers of the right hand and flicked .
18 Can you notice any differences between the first and second ways of performing this action ?
19 Squeezing the string works onto three generously filled discs makes good economic sense , though it is annoying to have to experience a break between the first and second movements of the Op. 67 Quartet .
20 It was in the years between the First and Second World Wars that this enthusiasm was at its height .
21 Sole , however , was critical of the extensive travelling which the itinerary imposed on the Scots , with a four-hour flight between the first and second venues , Darwin and Brisbane , and then the same time on to Hobart … from one extreme to the other in less than a week .
22 A figure can be seen silhouetted on the shaded section of the ridge , between the first and second pinnacles and right of an obvious cornice .
23 Most contemporary feminist politics is somewhere between the first and second stages , that is , it oscillates between deploring and celebrating difference , between the negative and positive motivations I outlined above , without realistically expecting — yet — to transcend current gender divisions .
24 If your garment size requires that you have a number of stitches that give a half repeat , you might consider moving the N1 cam between the first and second piece as we discussed earlier , so that when seamed ‘ A ’ will be joined to ‘ B ’ at the side seam .
25 They 've been yo-yoing between the First and Second Divisions for as long as I can remember — at the time of writing , they 're well on their way to the Premier League .
26 Needless to say , these measures proved effective , and Persian weavers went back to using natural dyes until the more reliable chrome dyes were introduced in the years between the First and Second World Wars .
27 If another image occurs during this time , we can not perceive any interval between the first and second images and they appear continuous .
28 There were no significant differences in the mean albumin concentrations between the first and second visits and the first and third visits .
29 The context included the selector' five changes between the first and second Tests against England , the bog losses of that tour , and the subsequent glorious run in the World Cup .
30 He leant back in his chair and thrust the unlit pipe into his mouth , holding the stem in that strange but characteristic grip between the first and second fingers of his left hand .
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