Example sentences of "[prep] the very [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against this background this school became one of the very first to be invited to generate and submit a proposal document to the Coordinating Team . |
| 2 | When Hullmandel published his treatise The Art of Drawing on Stone in 1824 , the possibilities of lithography were better advertised ( although Hullmandel was careful not to describe the actual printing process , so that artists would have to come to him for that service ) , and Lear was one of the very first to be attracted to the technique . |
| 3 | One of the very first of them was Rossini 's Elisabetta Regina d'Inghilterra , which revolves around a real enough subject : the execution of what might now be called political prisoners . |
| 4 | The famous Vienna and Berlin Secessions were two of the very last of these movements . |
| 5 | Strategic decisions urgently need to be taken since , as I pointed out in the very first of my articles for NSS in January 1991 , the British economy is now in grave peril . |
| 6 | I arrived at Bank Street eight o'clock sharp , in the very last of the light . |
| 7 | We want you to be among the very first in Britain to benefit from these developments and to enjoy them ! |
| 8 | He has the distinction of being among the very first in the country to ‘ do Koi properly ’ , and his 25 years ' experience were passed on to Ken at meetings of the local section of the BKKS . |
| 9 | The Barley Mow brewery was among the very last to still brew draught London porter , which it made until the late 1930s , and even in the 1950s it was famous for another dark beer , its Main Line mild . |