Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps surprisingly at first sight , additional variable capacitance is introduced in parallel with R 2 and additional fixed capacitance in parallel with R 1 .
2 The lower storey has thick walls while the upper one has thinner walls set back to form a terrace all round at first floor level .
3 Brian Lara was dropped low down at first slip by Wessels off his first ball from Snell , and Keith Arthurton , in his first Test for three years , survived two slip catches off no-balls and another actual chance in his top score of 59 , filled with 10 exciting on-side boundaries .
4 At last I got on a bus , which trundled quite briskly to the far end of the King 's Road , but after World 's End , where the streets were darker , the fog seemed to close in and the bus was forced to nose its way cautiously along in first gear .
5 Alcoholism may progress quickly over a few years but commonly progresses over twenty years or even more from first intoxication until terminal chronic disease .
6 And they 're not above leaving a couple of drays in there late on till first light , rather than stable them .
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