Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the first [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is to be a fish-only tank , then you can only stock 6″ of fish slowly during the first six months . |
| 2 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 3 | And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship . |
| 4 | To make the needle fit the groove , the disc contained abrasive material , so the tip would be ground down during the first two or three revolutions . |
| 5 | As cricket activity wound down during the first two years of the war the Otago CA was finding Crawford to be an expensive acquisition , with only £103 in the Coach 's Fund and £169 being paid out for a six-month period . |
| 6 | The charter provides evidence of a surprisingly well-worked-out system to ensure castle-guard of the town : in April , May , June , July and August , it was the count 's responsibility , though he paid only for the first two months directly out of his own treasury ; , the inhabitants of the town produced a tax for the following three . |
| 7 | Only for the first three batches . |
| 8 | Actually there are many stars with proper names , but in general these are used only for the first 30 or so , plus a few fainter stars of special interest — such as Polaris , Mizar in the Great Bear , and the variable star Mira , in Cetus , the Whale . |
| 9 | ‘ Most of the children came in during the first two days and our helplines were flooded with calls , but they appear to have calmed down now . ’ |
| 10 | The darker your skin , the more protected it is , but most skins still need to use a sunfilter , especially during the first five days . |
| 11 | You will probably feel better if you eat little and often , so this helps to maintain your blood sugar level , and prevents you from getting " the munchies ' , especially during the first four weeks of the diet , when you are first restricting your diet . |
| 12 | Taking unprescribed pills or medicines , especially during the first three months of pregnancy , could harm your baby . |
| 13 | The current advice to pregnant women is , ‘ Cut out alcohol , especially during the first three months ’ . |
| 14 | Go easy on vigorous exercise , especially during the first three months when you need as much rest as possible or if you are suffering from high blood pressure . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's a very good thing he 's been involved in the pre-tour training at Lilleshall and is going along for the first three weeks of the Indian tour to bowl in the nets . |
| 16 | That settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation . |
| 17 | That , that is , that is the way that they were chosen , and two years ago , I think , we put one point two million pounds in for the first seven schemes . |
| 18 | For example , outbreeding is much more likely to occur than brother-sister incest because of the apparently innate rule that individuals raised closely together during the first six years of life are inhibited from full sexual intercourse at maturity . |
| 19 | So after the first two calls you are up to eighty . |
| 20 | ‘ Well ’ , she agrees reluctantly , ‘ I 've got my tennis together a lot more this year , especially after the first three months . |
| 21 | From this false premiss , it is easy to see how the public might wrongly think that Moët & Chandon 's Premiere Cuvée Champagne is made entirely from the first thousand litres of the cuvée . |
| 22 | Divinity degrees require some study in each of the departments listed below in the first two years of the course . |
| 23 | His main findings were that 51 per cent had left employment in the destination area at some stage during the twelve-month period , most of these had returned to their area of origin and that 75 per cent of those who left the destination area had done so within the first ten weeks . |
| 24 | ‘ I often feel that forwards waste too much time in scrummaging especially in the first six scrums of a game ’ , says Derek Bevan . |
| 25 | The Treaty also permitted " declared site inspections " ( i.e. of sites where treaty-limited weapons were declared to be held ) , and some " challenge inspections " , especially in the first 120 days , although inspections would continue after that period . |
| 26 | The South Atlantic region ( Delaware , Maryland , Virginia , West Virginia , North and South Carolina , Georgia and Florida , plus the District of Columbia ) performed much better than the national average , especially in the first two decades when growth rates were half as large again as those for the United States as a whole . |
| 27 | I 've been staying at her place for some weeks now , in order to help her maintain the tight control on her blood sugar that 's so vital , especially in the first three months , but that 's becoming impractical . |
| 28 | As with any new aquarium or pond the water quality must be monitored especially in the first 6–8 weeks . |
| 29 | This explains very clearly why Matilda is far and away the most popular children 's book I have written and was bought by over half a million children in Britain alone in the first six months . |
| 30 | Okay , so in the first ten seconds , probably gone about |