Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 22nd the market reacted by falling a further 3.1% , which took the Nikkei index below 30,000 for the first time since December 1988 to close at 29,843 . |
| 2 | As investors and the better-paid alike give thanks for their deliverance , that most essential and intangible ingredient for economic recovery — confidence — is suddenly present for the first time in three years . |
| 3 | However , the input signals must be extremely small for the first of these two equations to apply with constant parameters . |
| 4 | A one-point rise in Japan 's discount rate pushed Tokyo below 31,000 for the first time since January 1989 ; during the week it lost 5.6% . |
| 5 | There are also a few records for January , but only two for the first half of February . |
| 6 | The firebox and boiler of No. 3822 were equally packed out too , as WSR Driver Dave Williams and Fireman Gareth Winter had the engine just right for the first four-mile assault on Crowcombe Bank . |
| 7 | I do n't know whether enjoyed it as he was sound asleep for the first 8 miles , but he certainly was n't complaining either — a merciful relief ! |
| 8 | SSP is not payable for the first three qualifying days in a PIW . |
| 9 | Housing benefit is not payable for the first £16.25 of rent outside London or £23.45 of rent within London for any student . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm expecting him to report and , with five matches in the next four weeks , any player who is not fit for the first game will not necessarily miss the rest of them , ’ said Taylor . |
| 11 | By his order dated 14 July 1992 the judge granted a declaration that it was not unlawful for the first or third defendants to administer a blood transfusion to T. if they considered that it was in her best interests to do so . |
| 12 | Albert Einstein was largely responsible for the first , was entirely responsible for the second , and played a major role in the development of the third . |
| 13 | This lesion ( Fig. 22 ) is largely responsible for the first clinical signs . |
| 14 | Not bad for the first day , she thought with a sense of satisfaction as she washed her hands and tucked in a few strands of escaping hair . |
| 15 | A single budded standard , or a double where one has failed , can look distinctly lop-sided for the first few years until it has had time to develop — this is the sort of stuff you have to watch out for in the cheap ‘ end of season nursery clearance sales ’ and street markets . |
| 16 | Alpine days stay reasonably warm for the first half of the month . |
| 17 | It 's also important for the first time buyer . |
| 18 | He was collecting for over forty years and , as Miller was a regular recipient of Bartram 's shipments , it can be assumed that ‘ a large proportion of plants credited to Miller as introducer consisted of collections by Bartram and if this is true he was probably responsible for the first appearance in the gardens of England of between one hundred and fifty and two hundred plants ’ ( John Hendley Barnhart , ‘ Significance of John Bartram 's Work to Botanical and Horticultural Knowledge ’ , Bartonia Special Issue , 1931 ) . |
| 19 | Leeds was also responsible for the first major excavation of a settlement at Sutton Courtenay , Berkshire ( Leeds 1923 ; 1927 ; 1947 ) as well as reporting on a number of cemeteries ( 1916 ; 1924 ; and Harden 1936 ; and Riley 1942 ; and Shortt 1953 ) . |
| 20 | Although the excavators have warned that these dates are only a broad indication of that of the complex and segmented line which is this phase of the Danevirke as a whole , they nevertheless believe that in a period of danger from Germany Harald rebuilt the central section , and was also responsible for the first phases of the flanking lines to east and west . |
| 21 | It is curious that it should have happened , that Michel came upon the scene the very instant she was really free for the first time in her life . |
| 22 | To his pleasant surprise he discovered that he was now able to think with an objective clarity which stemmed from the knowledge that he was now free for the first time in his life to speak his mind without fear or favour . |
| 23 | For Swindon it was shooting practice young Marcus Phillips on as sub for the first time nearly got a goal but it was Torquay who tookover towards the end … |
| 24 | In addition its PC-NFS Advanced Telnet software for terminal emulation is now available for the first time in 10- , 25- , 100- and 500-user packs with prices ranging from $1,600 to $49,500 . |
| 25 | Such essential measures as library expenditure per student , per capita computing costs , and many other management data , are now available for the first time in published form , so that universities can see at a glance how they measure up to similar institutions . |
| 26 | RIVER CROSSENS : Good fishery but often slow for the first week or so until fish located . |
| 27 | A new room for the study of the 7,000-or-so drawings and 27,000 prints which make up the Courtauld collection will make these works widely available for the first time . |
| 28 | She felt triumphantly free for the first time in her life . |
| 29 | Life was n't easy for the first Italian immigrants . |
| 30 | They became increasingly sleepy for the first four days until it became almost impossible for the experimenters to keep them awake . |