Example sentences of "[adv] for the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Only for the first three batches . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | only for the first few days |
| 6 | Obviously for the first few days after I could n't sleep . |
| 7 | well I 'm a bit puzzled why , why you want to know all this and you think because I have n't given , given a good benefit that 's why a good temporary benefit , that 's why I 'm puzzled , say well let me just take you back to why I 'm h why I 'm here , let me get out of our meeting you 're gon na find this extremely valuable , perhaps for the first half we will spend time looking at your financial put you on the path to achieve financial . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | That settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Inevitably , months later , some actor will hiss , ‘ Heard you were in for the first half the other night , ’ prompting instant fabrication of husband having a miscarriage and mad cow disease in row F ) . |
| 12 | It may also be useful to have a risk management consultant in for the first few meetings , if only to kick-start the process and provide a few , objective ‘ what if ? ’ questions . |
| 13 | Just for the first few seconds she was back in the days after Hugh 's desertion . |
| 14 | This procedure is depicted above for the first three values of the repeated median smooth , shown in full in figure 9.9 : Thus 47 is the value to be smoothed , the skip mean 43.5 is the mean of 40 and 47 and the smoothed value 45.2 is the rounded mean of 47 and 43.5 . |
| 15 | Debussy takes over for the first two of five of the Eight Piano Pieces Op. 15 , of Dirk Schäfer ( 1873–1931 ) — surprisingly , in view of the derisory remarks Schäfer made about Debussy quoted in the notes . |
| 16 | She come downstairs well not for the first half hour . |
| 17 | Figures released yesterday for the first four months of the year show total crime in the county is up 12pc on this time last year , with the detection rate down by 3pc . |
| 18 | Choose a sun protection factor of 15 or more for the first few days . |
| 19 | The Committee normally meets fortnightly for the first eight weeks each term ( weeks 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 ) and may meet on a fifth occasion ( in week 10 ) . |
| 20 | So next day I duly went to the synagogue , rather self-conscious in my trilby hat , surprised to find women sitting in the gallery only , much impressed with the singing of the cantor and the blowing of the ram 's horn , and a little taken aback by the quick exit at the end of the fast , presumably to get back home for the first square meal of the day . |
| 21 | ‘ Now we 're going home for the first proper Christmas Laura has ever had , ’ said Fran . |
| 22 | ‘ I always , ’ he explains , ‘ had the feeling that I was taking the club back straight for the first two feet of the backswing but now I am taking it slightly inside . |
| 23 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 24 | MUSIC students in Scotland and London are tuning up for the first annual LASMO Music Festival to be held in the theatre at Haddo House , Aberdeen , on 22 June . |
| 25 | Patients were then treated with 120 mg tripotassium dicitratobismuthate ( DeNol , Brocades , Weybridge , Surrey , UK ) four times daily for one month , 400 mg metronidazole three times daily , and 500 mg tetracycline four times daily taken concurrently for the first two weeks of treatment . |
| 26 | Now if you 've got somebody who you are protecting their family , and they 'll be paying that plan twenty five years or more , the fact that they pay commissions out for the first four years is immaterial , what they want is peace of mind and protection . |
| 27 | A dynamic study of the posterior lung fields was carried out for the first 15 minutes after injecting the radiolabelled leucocytes . |
| 28 | POMEROY social security office in Tyrone will not open today for the first scheduled signing-on since the IRA attack on a fraud squad investigator a fortnight ago . |
| 29 | Once I know how fast my ‘ feeder is emptying , or have made it empty at the pace I require , I cast very frequently for the first twenty minutes or so — as fast as the emptying of the ‘ feeder will allow — and then slow down only just enough to keep a steady trickle of feed through the swim . |
| 30 | The festival was held outdoors for the first eighty years , but moved indoors after torrential rain caused the collapse of the stage as the congregation were singing The Heavens are Telling ! |