Example sentences of "[adv] the first [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the first two or three hundred we did in the first year have now been resold twice . |
| 2 | When you first purchase the machine , only the first dozen or so of these palettes will actually be programmed . |
| 3 | In fact holoenzymes reconstituted in vitro with truncated α-subunits , α-235 or α-256 , containing respectively the first 235 and 256 amino acids of the 329 residues of the α protein were perfectly able to initiate transcription at constitutive promoters , but were unable to respond to CRP activation at type I promoters [ 13 ] . |
| 4 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 5 | Although menstrual cycles vary quite considerably in length from person to person , the average length is about 28 days with the ‘ period ’ taking up the first five or six of these . |
| 6 | Well , maybe the first four or five will , and he 's the first of the five . |
| 7 | These had to be answered , and answered well — or at least the first ten or so did — because the original questioner and other MPs were allowed to ask supplementary questions . |