Example sentences of "[adv] in the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Divinity degrees require some study in each of the departments listed below in the first two years of the course . |
| 2 | ‘ I often feel that forwards waste too much time in scrummaging especially in the first six scrums of a game ’ , says Derek Bevan . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As with any new aquarium or pond the water quality must be monitored especially in the first 6–8 weeks . |
| 7 | According to s.6 , as amended by the FSA 1986 , the practice of price stabilisation ( ie. trading activities geared towards stabilising share prices , especially in the first few months of an issue ) , if done in conformity with the rules made under s.48 of the FSA 1986 , can take place despite the fact that such activities would ordinarily be in breach of the insider dealing prohibitions . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Okay , so in the first ten seconds , probably gone about |
| 10 | So , although the Bolsheviks did not start the inflationary process , they were unable to stop it either , despite their wish to do so in the first few months of Soviet rule . |
| 11 | The bill , the most draconian to have been passed by any state , prohibited abortion in cases other than to save a woman 's life or in cases of rape ( if reported within five days ) or incest , where abortion would be permitted only in the first 13 weeks . |
| 12 | Seymour committed suicide on 20 Apr. 1836 ; his illustrations appear only in the first two parts of PP ( Apr. , May 1836 ) . |
| 13 | Only in the first two minutes of the third round did we see Eubank looking anything like his best performances against Michael Watson and Nigel Benn . |
| 14 | I got excuse me , put down in the first eleven for hockey . |
| 15 | A goal down in the first 10 minutes . |
| 16 | Launched on a miniscule budget and a surge of dubious optimism , held together in the first eighteen months by a poultice of desperation and blind faith ( not to mention liberal applications of cow gum and sellotape ) , still independent after a decade of brinkmanship publishing this is a tremendous achievement . |
| 17 | On the day of the Station sports I tried harder than I had ever tried in any of my events , and the results were exactly as predicted by old Doc Whittingham " not in the first three , could make fourth if he really tries hard enough " ( which could be the story of my life ) . |
| 18 | Thus in the first twelve years of his reign he received an average of about £26,000 per annum from extraordinary revenue and over the reign as a whole about £13,500 per annum . |
| 19 | The current , although only slow , should be able to do this easily in the first few seconds before the crust becomes totally waterlogged and is still buoyant enough to counteract the weight of the bullet . |
| 20 | And the Northern Ireland International surprisingly finding himself in the clear twice already in the first five minutes , although that was er obviously not a chance . |
| 21 | Everything came through in the first nine months of 1991 so the company was able to trade profitably . |
| 22 | This was just in the first half kids . |
| 23 | They have contributed only 39% of what the central government requires them to hand over in the first three months of the year . |
| 24 | The estimated elasticities with respect to benefits of this reservation wage , hazard rate and expected duration are 0.12 , -0.75 and 0.22 , respectively in the first three months of the spell . |
| 25 | And he did it the right way , he did it the hard way , always in the first two , always having a cut at and jump , jump , jump , you know . |
| 26 | The FA will also investigate Dunstable 's bizarre exit from the FA Cup on Saturday when the entire team walked off in their second-round qualifying tie at Staines after having three players sent off in the first 38 minutes . |
| 27 | So many people give up because , after the elation of seeing the pounds fall off in the first few days , they lose heart when weight loss slows down . |
| 28 | In addition , nationally in the first six months of 1991 there was a 53 per cent . |
| 29 | So you 've had a sharp increase in our shareholders ' funds during the six months and a reduction in our net debt which may not be quite as er substantial as you expected but it is the combination of on the one hand the proceeds of Elsivir less some reinvestment which Frank mentioned , we put a little more money in B S B and the minority interests and we do have traditionally in the first half an adverse net movement of funds from operation about ninety five million and then we had thirty two million odd er of simply revaluation as a result of translating our dollar debt at er the one sixty as opposed to the year ending rate . |
| 30 | It is complemented by a number of other professional studies both in the first two years , e.g. Mathematics , Environmental Studies , Science , P.E . |