Example sentences of "[prep] the first [noun] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One sometimes gets the impression that IBM Corp is more solicitous over the needs of its Stamford , Connecticut-based IBM Credit Corp subsidiary than it is over its own , and yesterday , in the wake of the parent 's big $285m loss , IBM Credit was able to announce that profits actually rose 0.3% at $58.3m ; the return on average equity was 20.2% , compared with 21.3% in the first quarter of 1992 and in the first three months of 1993 , IBM Credit originated financing for $1,700m of equipment , software and services for IBM 's customers and distribution channels , down 22% on the figure for the first quarter 1992 — financing for end users decreased by 45% to $600m while financing for distribution channels decreased by 1% to $1,100 , the company noted . |
| 2 | Mozaic is scheduled for the first quarter 1993 for manufacturing companies in the US and Canada and will be released to third-party systems integrators in Europe in the second quarter . |
| 3 | For the first fortnight three weeks |
| 4 | On the basis of these and other clinical results , MicroGeneSys gp160 was chosen by scientists at the Karolinska Institute , the National Bacteriological Laboratory and South Hospital in Sweden for the first phase III vaccine therapy studies . |
| 5 | According to Lloyds Bank 's chief economic adviser , Patrick Foley , the industrial and commercial company sector will this year revert to financial balance for the first time 1987 . |
| 6 | Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ? |
| 7 | for the first time five years of ed |
| 8 | The Company 's hint was taken , and on 6th July the Charity Commissioners approved the new Board , which met for the first time twelve days later and agreed to advertise for a Headmaster who — after all the fuss and contrary to what may have been expected — was required to be an Anglican clergyman ! |
| 9 | It was at a dinner party in the flat , when they were in the kitchen together fetching yogurt and raspberries , that I heard for the first time one of them turn on the other in anger . |
| 10 | One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’ |
| 11 | Now the situation is changing and for the first time two excellent books have appeared on pain in children . |
| 12 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
| 13 | ( For the first time 1993 will see TMAM staging a spring ‘ jumble as well . ) |
| 14 | It brings together for the first time 24 internationally produced and acclaimed animations , displaying a vast array of styles and experimentation . |
| 15 | ‘ Binge ’ diary Week 1 Binged and vomited four times 2–3 Keeping her diary regularly 4 Returned home and told her family about problems with eating 5 Stopped weighing herself so frequently ; binged and vomited three times 6 Ate breakfast for first time 7 Allowed herself to ask for support from friends 8–9 Binged and vomited once each week 10 Expressed her feelings of sadness in the group for the first time 11–12 Ate three regular meals per day ; binges much smaller 13 A week free from bingeing and vomiting 14 A week free from bingeing and vomiting |
| 16 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 17 | What will they say about the first £5 million player ? ’ |
| 18 | Arantxa Sanchez Vicario , 17 , made a late charge into the hearts of the fans by putting the frighteners on Martina Navratilova , to race through the first set 6-0 , in just 25 minutes , cracking winners at every opportunity . |
| 19 | After the first interview 10 patients ( seven good responders , three poor responders ) had a second diagnostic anorectal manometry . |
| 20 | At the end of the first day 5 Airborne Brigade has achieved its objectives . |
| 21 | Since the introduction of the first IBM 370 series processor in the late 70's , there has been a rapid growth in computerisation . |
| 22 | By the following year that innocence of 1969 had turned into the appearance of the first page three girls in the freshly Murdoch-bought Sun . |
| 23 | Seymour took delivery of the first Vancouver 28 , christened Islander , on 16 May , 1986 , a date he finds difficult to forget because it was his birthday and on that day he wrote a rather large cheque . |
| 24 | made a quick exit from the Yorkshire Shield competition when they were knocked out of the first round 13–4 in a game spoiled by the wind . |
| 25 | made a quick exit from the Yorkshire Shield competition when they were knocked out of the first round 13–4 in a game spoiled by the wind . |
| 26 | South London commuters who have travelled practically all their working lives on dreary Bulleid-influenced 4-SUB and EPB units would have celebrated the arrival from York in 1981 of the first Class 455 four-car units , which , in three batches , eventually ran to 137 . |
| 27 | The arrival of the first Class 60 Co-Cos in the autumn of 1989 would spell the wholesale demise of many thirty-year-old Class 20s , 31s , 33s and 47s . |
| 28 | He was a liberal conservative gentleman from a line of such who had cultivated their patch of Wiltshire since one of the first gentrifications four centuries previously . |
| 29 | With the first Dalek one , for example , I let Richard Martin , again a new Director , do a few episodes but under the wings of Christopher who set up the serial and so , kind of , held his hand while he eased himself into the role of Director , which was good experience for him . |
| 30 | In the first category one can group , for instance , the traditional Toryism of the working class in mid-Lancashire , in an area of high home ownership ; the traditional anti-Irish protestant Tory vote in the cities of Liverpool , Manchester and Glasgow , where the Labour Party had become identified with Catholicism ; and the weakly unionised workforce of the West Midlands engaged in small and relatively paternalistic businesses . |