Example sentences of "[noun] [num] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's current-account deficit shrank to £192m ( $377m ) in February ; the 12-month visible-trade deficit fell below $30 billion for the first time since mid-1988 . |
| 2 | Overall turnover rose 8.3 per cent in the 53 weeks to 2 January to top £1 billion for the first time . |
| 3 | Pre-tax profits soared from £21.4 million to almost £32 million and the company joined Iceland Frozen Foods yesterday in announcing turnover that topped £1 billion for the first time , jumping from £920 million to £1.05 billion . |
| 4 | New nominations will be submitted by the Thursday , under the same procedure and with the same arrangements for consultation as described in paragraphs 4–9 for the first ballot , both for the original candidates if required and for any other candidates . |
| 5 | The Collective State Presidency , excluding the Slovene representative Janez Drnovsek , met on July 4 for the first time with Mesic as President [ see p. 38275 ] . |
| 6 | Earlier , there had been fighting at Mannar on Aug. 1 as the LTTE attacked an advancing troop convoy ; naval artillery was used against rebel positions on Aug. 3 for the first time since the resumption of large-scale fighting on June 11 ; and a major clash took place on Aug. 4-5 , involving the repulsing of an unsuccessful rebel attack against the Jaffna fort . |
| 7 | Multiparty elections to a 23-member constituent commission were held on July 23-26 for the first time since the 1977 coup , when Sir James Mancham was overthrown by France-Albert René [ see pp. 28485-86 ] . |
| 8 | Group sales exceeded £10 billion for the first time as the Group served over ten million customers each week . |
| 9 | Membership would entail the release of detailed information on the Soviet economy , and observers saw the publication of Gosbank ( Soviet State Bank ) accounts on July 16 for the first time since 1936 as the beginnings of this . |
| 10 | Savimbi returned to Luanda on Sept. 27 for the first time since the start of the 16-year civil war . |
| 11 | A ( Soviet ) DRA proposal at the Geneva talks in February 1987 for the first time made public a time frame for Soviet withdrawal , eighteen months , with no conditions attached to the process of ‘ national reconciliation ’ in Afghanistan . |
| 12 | With the prospects of breaking the stalemate fading , hopes rose following the announcement that the government and ANC representatives had held talks on July 28 for the first time since the ANC broke off contact on June 23 . |
| 13 | In 1955 also the idea of a Children 's Church on Sunday mornings was first suggested ( thought it did not start till November 1960 ) and in December 1955 for the first time there was a Christmas tree in church . |
| 14 | De Klerk arrived in the United States on Sept. 24 for the first official visit by a South African government leader in 44 years . |
| 15 | 3.1 Module descriptors which have been reviewed for session 1987–88 ( eg Music Making modules ) or which are being introduced in session 1987–88 for the first time are identified in the National Catalogue by a first digit 7 . |
| 16 | The Leasehold Reform Act 1967 for the first time introduces leasehold enfranchisement , whereby a lessee is entitled to compel his lessor to sell him the freehold upon payment of compensation on a scale fixed by the Act . |
| 17 | The House will recall my Adjournment debate of 22 January 1991 following the publication in December 1990 for the first time of the annual report by Her Majesty 's inspector of constabulary , Mr. Geoffrey Dear . |
| 18 | Representatives of West Berlin , which is not a constituent part of the Federal Republic , in both the Bundestag and Bundesrat have since May 1990 for the first time had full voting rights in both bodies . |
| 19 | Was n't it in the budget the two point seven for the first two months ? |
| 20 | That is about £2 billion for the first five years . |
| 21 | Hekmatyar 's most powerful rival in the mujaheddin , the northern-based Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ahmad Shah Massud ( known as the " Lion of Panjsher " for his victories over Soviet troops in the Panjsher Valley — see p. 36396 ) , visited Islamabad , the Pakistan capital , on Oct. 13 for the first time for more than 10 years , to meet other mujaheddin leaders and senior Pakistani civilian and military officials , including the Pakistani President , Ghulam Ishaq Khan , the Army Chief of Staff , Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg , and the ISI chief , Maj.-Gen. |
| 22 | The UN Security Council had reconvened on Feb. 13 for the first time since the outbreak of hostilities to review the progress of the conflict . |
| 23 | The company swung the axe before revealing pre-tax losses of £129 million for the first half of this year . |
| 24 | The only other thing I would say is that you 've got domiciliary health there on the bottom of page forty-three for the first time , a thing that we certainly asked for on your behalf . |
| 25 | The Swindon rider , 20 , who is also the Australian under-21 champion , has been named at No 1 for the first Test of a three-match series . |
| 26 | I feed the fry on Liquifry No 1 for the first week , and from the second week onwards they have both Liquifry and newly-hatched brine shrimp . |
| 27 | An Israeli trade delegation visited Beijing on Nov. 18-22 for the first official talks on establishing trade ties following a secret visit by Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Arens on Nov. 4-8 to discuss military co-operation and China 's arms sales to the Middle East . |
| 28 | Iraqi authorities lifted the night-time curfew on Nov. 23 for the first time since the Aug. 2 invasion [ see pp. 37632-35 ] . |
| 29 | " Last year our friends and allies provided the bulk of the economic costs of Desert Shield , and having now received commitments of over $40,000 million for the first three months of 1991 , I am confident that they will do no less as we move through Desert Storm . |
| 30 | Turnover increased by 10 per cent over 1991 and exceeded £200 million for the first time , despite the suspension of the Hibernia project . |