Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | They too were a family of skilled craftsmen and , like so many of the first two generations of South Wales industrial settlers , retained a small interest in country matters , raising pigs and often keeping a pony or two on the outskirts of their villages . |
| 2 | Looking at the audience , you may find that only those in the first five rows are alert and interested — the next five rows are straining forward , probably frowning , while the people in the back of the hall have given up and are doing their best to hide the fact that they are nodding off . |
| 3 | There was a palpable sense of excitement , dynamism , and innovation among the fundholders , especially those in the first wave . |
| 4 | We got specific money , in other words , the government flagged up that in the first year , there were going to be infrastructure costs , and so there was a specific allowance made for that , and we 've been recruiting gradually , not all at once , over a period of time , as the numbers of people coming into the community care system rise , we 've been recruiting new staff there . |
| 5 | Nearly half of the first papers derived from Ph D research in the present study are jointly authored , and in nearly half of these cases , the thesis author is not the first author . |
| 6 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 7 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 8 | Measurement distortion will occur if the height of the last column is not exactly twice that of the first . |
| 9 | If the last column is more than twice that of the first , then the company 's profit trend will be enhanced ( positive measurement distortion ) . |
| 10 | On the other hand , if the last column is less than twice that of the first , then the company 's profit trend will be understated ( negative measurement distortion ) . |
| 11 | Inexplicable laughter would , I was sure , seem to my mother yet another of the first signs of madness . |
| 12 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |
| 13 | Patsy was a sickly child , growing very little in the first few years of his life . |
| 14 | Increasingly , books for school use are targeting skills and concepts as well as content , though very few of the first wave of National Curriculum history titles , hurriedly rushed out by publishers , were in fact written after the final reports for history had been issued . |
| 15 | Was that too much in the first letter ? |
| 16 | ‘ The pitch has held together reasonably well and the conditions have not changed that much from the first day . |