Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meat production in the Soviet Union was down 12% in the first part of this year , while milk production has fallen by 10% . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Town are still second in the first division , but are reckoned to be playing the best football . |
| 8 | Manufacturing productivity rose nearly 8% in the first quarter of 1993 compared to the same period last year . |
| 9 | For instance , a man of 29 who paid £50 a month into a 25-year endowment , would fork out £1,800 in the first three years . |
| 10 | AST is third in US market share among portable computer makers , Edwards said , and overall unit growth was up about 65% in the first nine months of the current fiscal . |
| 11 | A well-made heap will heat rapidly to about 66°C in the first week , the temperature then dropping slowly down to about 29°C after three months . |
| 12 | El Segundo , California-based Computer Sciences Corp says it expects to record a net gain of about $5m in the first quarter of fiscal 1994 on adoption of a new accounting rule covering income tax reporting . |
| 13 | But were they really freeholders in the first place ? |
| 14 | You wo n't know exactly how much your Poll Tax will be until closer to April 1990 , but a projected estimate is that each person will be charged about £350 in the first year of Poll Tax . |
| 15 | His talks with Prime Minister John Major on Feb. 18 were followed by the announcement that Bulgaria was to receive a share , estimated at around £1,000,000 in the first year , of the UK " Know How Fund " designed to provide technological and educational assistance to Eastern Europe 's new democracies . |
| 16 | The concept of a failure rate of over 25% in the First Division has raised objections from those who understand that an omelette can not be made without first breaking some eggs but would rather not run the risk of being dairy produce . |
| 17 | The position on page two then shows the reductions targets , where we 've got a , a target for efficiency savings of hundred and thirty five thousand , service reductions on income generation costing six hundred thousands , and a proposal that we use a hundred and eighty thousand of the Committee 's carry forward savings in the first year , erm , that is obviously a one year only reduction , and indeed a Policy and Resources Committee and a report of treasurer to that committee , did make the point that committees will be aware that they must use the carry forwards in funding reductions in four , five , will have to matched by service reductions in future years . |
| 18 | Production of luxury cars at Jaguar rose by 56% in the first four months of the year , largely due to increased demand in its biggest market , America , where sales in the first four months were 27% higher than a year ago . |
| 19 | Fund raising activities undertaken by members of the ‘ Johnson Matthey family ’ have raised over £18,000 in the first six months of the programme . |