Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's all right for the first years now cos they 're never even gon na know about it . |
| 2 | Anna Freud ( 1943 , 1960 ) , who had been one of the first to call attention to the emotional difficulties of small children separated from their mothers , attacked from yet another angle , affirming the emotional need , not only in the baby but in his mother , to be together during the first weeks of the child 's life , and criticizing maternity hospital practice that separated the two . |
| 3 | The coalmining industry has been a major symbol of the differences between the two main political parties of post-war Great Britain : the Labour party , with its firm commitment — especially in the first decades of the period — to public ownership of the ‘ commanding heights of the economy ’ , and the Conservative party and its much greater ( and increasing from the mid-1970s on ) commitment to free market operations with minimal state interference , let alone ownership . |
| 4 | Trim them back , dead-head regularly and bring in before the first frosts and you should have flowers for months to come |
| 5 | But perhaps the most punishing — and undeserved — losses had been suffered by von Zwehl 's VII Reserve Corps , which had done so brilliantly in the first days of the battle . |
| 6 | This was obviously the pigeons ' favourite delicacy : at the sight of the tin can , the pigeons leapt in the air and fluttered above us waiting to dive down on the first grains ; others landed flirtatiously on Fardine 's arms and shoulders . |
| 7 | ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy . |
| 8 | At a few selected points , the particles crash together head-on , generating energy of an intensity matched only by the first moments of the explosion physicists believe created the universe . |
| 9 | CHESTER 'S tuberculosis scare appears to be over as the first results of tests on 500 children were released yesterday . |
| 10 | Rather , it was his inability to end the war which , already in the first months of the Russian campaign and ever more strongly during 1942 , began inexorably to undermine the image of the far-sighted , infallible , and well-intentioned Führer . |
| 11 | We have six to give away to the first names drawn from the postbag on 7 March . |
| 12 | We have 15 to give away to the first readers whose named are pulled out of the bag on July 8 . |
| 13 | We have 60 bottles to give away to the first readers to answer the following question and send their answer , with their name and address , to : . |
| 14 | We have 250 jars of peach halves , each worth £3.95 , to give away to the first readers to write in . |
| 15 | We have 250 copies to give away to the first readers to write to Noilly Prat Booklet Offer , . |
| 16 | We have 500 booklets to give away to the first readers to write to John West/1H , Gramby Marketing Services Ltd , School Lane , Denham Maasey , Altrincham , Cheshire WA14 5SZ . |
| 17 | Normally , it would cost you £2.49 , but we 've 200 to give away to the first readers who write in . |
| 18 | The garden 's main crops of apples and pears are gathered in late September and through to the first weeks of October . |
| 19 | Worried parents have attended a special clinic to learn more about the first signs of meningococcal meningitis . |
| 20 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 21 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 22 | Most of the growth was concentrated in the later decades of the nineteenth century and still more in the first years of the twentieth . |
| 23 | It lingers on into the first moments of his wakefulness , leaving him unsure what world he 's really in . |
| 24 | Sapiens International Corp NV has definitive agreement to acquire SmartStar Corp , the privately-held Goleta , California that came up with the first applications generation language for Digital Equipment Corp 's VAX/VMS , and is now working on object-oriented user interfaces for databases . |
| 25 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 26 | They say nine out of ten women have problems in learning to feed , and many give up in the first weeks . |
| 27 | Even in the European North many peasants used old flintlocks right up to the first decades of the twentieth century , and in Siberia the use of bows and spears by Russians was not unknown at least as late as the 1830s . |
| 28 | Croatia , Czechoslovakia , Finland , Hungary , Poland and Slovenia were also among the first countries to recognize Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 29 | But the volume of ‘ railway milk ’ traffic grew only slowly in the first decades of railway transport . |
| 30 | Over in Cheltenham , Frank Ford has been watching out for the first signs of winter . |