Example sentences of "[noun] for the first [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's fight for better budgeting terms dominated much of the debate within the EEC for the first ten years of British membership , masking the more important questions of sovereignty and Federalism . |
| 2 | The country 's current-account deficit for the first 10 months of the fiscal year also showed a fall of 27 per cent compared with the same period in 1989/90 . |
| 3 | In this year the US economy experienced serious trade and current-account deficits : the $170 billion trade deficit for the first nine months was due in particular to an increase in non-oil imports . |
| 4 | ‘ We played them off the park for the first 25 minutes of the second half . ’ |
| 5 | and if er , what they 're trying to do is so that you work say twenty three hours the class contact , you , you ca n't be averaged for more than two hours a week , so you need twenty three hours for the first two terms |
| 6 | PSBR for the first seven months hit £20.2bn , up from £8.7bn previously . |
| 7 | The thriving Teesside club also finished third in a special challenge award for the first 12 men home , underlining their strength-in-depth . |
| 8 | In his travels , Arkle will be staffing the Scripture Union stand for the first three weeks of Spring Harvest at Minehead , where he hopes to spend some time with Frank Shayi , SU South Africa 's Fieldwork Director . |
| 9 | Patients who start out using high levels of gum — about one piece every waking hour for the first six weeks of quitting — do better than half-hearted chewers . |
| 10 | It took well over an hour for the first 48 delegates — who included no Soviet bloc nation , nor India , nor Burma , nor either of the Chinas , nor a scattering of other countries who could not bring themselves to accept Japan 's word — to file up to the podium to sign . |
| 11 | The vital signs of the patients were checked every hour for the first 12 hours , every two hours for the second 12 hours , and every four hours for the following 24 hours until they became stable , and then four times daily . |
| 12 | In order to ensure a rapid response , cleanup crews will be guaranteed immunity from liability for property damage for the first 60 days after an accident |
| 13 | Terry Baughan , the financial director for both the Virgin Group and the airline , revealed that the airline had incurred a trading loss of £514,000 for the first three weeks of operation . |
| 14 | The party leader , Július Sólnes , took responsibility for the first two , while the deputy leader , Oli Th . |
| 15 | The optimist would point out that the aggregate attendance for the two Tests so far — 31,310 — compares very favourably with the aggregates for the first two Tests of 1980 ( 17,977 ) , and 1985 ( 28,097 ) . |
| 16 | Eurosatellite , an industrial consortium based in Munich , is building the French satellite , plus two others — one for West Germany and one that will act as a ‘ spare ’ in orbit for the first two . |
| 17 | Final competences for the first three levels ( supervisory , junior and middle managers ) are due in October 1990 together with procedures for MCI endorsement of awards . |
| 18 | ‘ What might I not have done if I 'd had my own clubs for the first two rounds ? ’ |
| 19 | Well erm , I 've just come up and and the accident so I 'm only entitled to money for the first four days . |
| 20 | We rode in the field for the first two weeks , and then I had to face the roads and the tractors . |
| 21 | Shire Counties fared just as strangely , with both Cumbria and Northumberland being at the extreme low end of the ranking in change among these authorities for the first two years and yet requiring one of the largest increases in the third . |
| 22 | He jabbered about football for the first five minutes to smother her angry silence . |
| 23 | Hezbollah announced 12 candidates for the first two rounds , eight of them in Baalbek , three elsewhere in the Bekaa , and one in Beirut . |
| 24 | The AirBreak group , which also includes Next Holidays , Peter Pan Ltd and Suntan Tours , revealed a £2.9 million loss for the first six months of this year . |
| 25 | Sistelcom 's president , Victoria Reinoso , announced that investment in the new system was running at some $3.5m per annum , and acknowledged that the system would run at a loss for the first two years . |
| 26 | Mineral revenue for the first four months of 1990 was calculated at US$1,075,600 . |
| 27 | The public sector repaid £3,834 million last month , almost £3 billion more than the City had expected and , after crediting privatisation proceeds of £6.3 billion , the shortfall in government revenue for the first ten months of the current financial year actually fell back to £21.6 billion at the end of January . |
| 28 | Dorset missed the services of Lee Sabin for the first two rounds . |
| 29 | Although the first two rounds of this year 's Davis Cup , one week after the Australian Open and then a week after Lipton , made it possible for him to fit them into his tournament programme for the first three months of the year when his number one ranking was under such threat , he says , ‘ The Davis Cup is certainly one of my priorities now . ’ |
| 30 | Later in the year proposals for specific research projects and the Centre 's overall programme for the first three years will be drawn up . |