Example sentences of "[pron] [n mass] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking into account Syria 's losses in military service and imprisonment under ill-treatment , the country may have lost half a million of its people during the First World War out of a population of well under four million . |
| 2 | All went well until the patrol reached the area of the Trig al Ab , the old camel track leading into the desert from the coast road where L Detachment had made their rendezvous after the first operation . |
| 3 | JEFF CHALLANDS , MARTIN CHANDLER and PHILIP ROBINSON continue their series in the first of two articles on breeding Central American Cichlids . |
| 4 | WARTIME Spitfire pilot F/L Tony Cooper was recently re-united with his aircraft for the first time since crashing on marshland near the Humber Estuary in 1944 . |
| 5 | Our data for the first demonstrate that A-tracts repeated at helical turn periods can display no mobility anomaly if they are appropriately phased with GGGCCC motifs . |
| 6 | It 's probably best not to feed your fish for the first day or so as they settle in ( though some fish will feed within a few minutes of being stocked ) . |