Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It dipped further on occasions when an end to the war seemed in prospect , notably on Feb. 15 and again on Feb. 19 , when it went briefly below $16 for the first time since July 1990 . |
| 2 | For bonds which do not fall in value below £20,000 on the first anniversary there is a bonus of 0.4% gross ( 0.3% net ) . |
| 3 | Meat production in the Soviet Union was down 12% in the first part of this year , while milk production has fallen by 10% . |
| 4 | As yet you are using only variations of the first fifty millesimal potency with which you began , and this way you derive the maximum benefit from each potency in turn . |
| 5 | He then crossed together members of the first generation , and found that in the second generation tall and short peas occurred in the ratio 3 tall : 1 short . |
| 6 | Well illustrated throughout in expansive colour , it gathers together chapters on the first four World Cups , Packer cricket , Sharjah etc , and individual feats , with a chosen World XI . |
| 7 | The Taiwanese government said last week that the rate of population growth this year would dip below 1% for the first time , to 0.95% , and forecast zero growth by 2035 . |
| 8 | Tax Relief — Only interest on the first £30,000 of the loan is eligible for tax relief . |
| 9 | I was no longer part of the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 10 | to service the service clan which , I do n't think will be controversial but erm I did just seat for the first part of report , the little bit about . |
| 11 | Commenting on its much improved figures ( see page seven ) , Cray Research Inc said order backlogs during the first quarter of rose to $381m from $354m in the same period a year ago , adding to positive overall quarterly earnings : John Carlson , the new chairman and chief executive , said that the contract value of orders signed was some $124m compared with just $86m in the first quarter of last year . |
| 12 | The company , which owns Spear & Jackson , the garden tools manufacturer , has been the subject of recurrent speculation for months , and it was fuelled last month when Neill announced a fall in pre-tax profits from £2.71m to just £28,000 in the first half . |
| 13 | Business development manager Laszlo Szilvessy forecasts that the company will turn over $1.5m in the first quarter of 1993 , after a disappointing $740,000 in the last three months of 1992 . |
| 14 | Next season will see four national divisions of 10 clubs and the introduction of home and away fixtures for the first time . |
| 15 | The membership remained largely moribund until the First World War , although the title of the union had been somewhat pretentiously changed to the National Agricultural Labourers ' and Rural Workers ' Union ( N A L R W U ) in 1912 . |
| 16 | Nor do the French stay overnight much ; hence a hotel-occupancy rate of just 37% for the first half . |
| 17 | We must examine it to see what sense it can yield us in the case of those who , as it happens , are not men in the first place , and in what way , once this is done , it will have changed its meaning for those who , by no special fault or merit of their own , actually are so . |
| 18 | and finally congratulations to the first big Central South winner of the New Year . |
| 19 | Redcar take on Ripon in the first round of the Yorkshire Cup and Andy Rogers replaces Jim Butcher at prop , while Mike Donoghue returns to the second row . |
| 20 | Town are still second in the first division , but are reckoned to be playing the best football . |
| 21 | The world record for economic inflation was probably Germany after the First World War , where the price of a loaf of bread went from under a mark to millions of marks in a few months . |
| 22 | The track index will take up part of the first track of each cylinder . |
| 23 | In the beginning priority was given to those setting up home for the first time , families with young children , and people who had lost their homes and furniture through enemy action . |
| 24 | I will discuss past and likely future trends in households and housing , and give particular attention to the experience of young people setting up home for the first time . |
| 25 | Bob cried as he wandered into the make up room on the first day . |
| 26 | Before the race , Mrs Munns judged the best turned-out horse , which she told me she was also doing for the first time . |
| 27 | Compaq Computer Corp took the lead in the European portable personal computer market in the first quarter of 1993 according to Dataquest figures which give Compaq 22% by value and 17.5% by volume , and the manufacturer says that shipments in the period were up 89% on the first quarter of 1992 , growing four times the rate of the market , which expanded 21% — and those figures reveal the reason that Dell Computer Corp has stumbled badly in laptops and notebooks : buyers are going for the higher cost 80486-based machines that abound in Compaq 's line , while Dell 's product emphasises low-price 80386SX-based machines . |
| 28 | Manufacturing productivity rose nearly 8% in the first quarter of 1993 compared to the same period last year . |
| 29 | If you are setting up LIFESPAN for the first time , you should follow the procedures in the order given to ensure a trouble-free installation . |
| 30 | Anyway , 25 years — nearly time for the first facelift , Billy . |