Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spurred on by the collapse of home demand , UK companies increased exports by 5% in 1991 and by a further 3% in the first half of last year . |
| 2 | The prize fund for first place is split into two parts — £2000 to the driver finishing on top of the leaderboard and another £1000 to the first car home using unleaded fuel . |
| 3 | K was set at five and a half percent in the first year . |
| 4 | All this was happening at a time of deep recession worsening by the day with unemployment rising to two and a half million , redundancies up by forty percent in the first four months of ninety one . |
| 5 | For at least some people of the first generation , Creole has symbolic value as a language of black identity , and those individuals may try to maintain their " Caribbeanness " by keeping their speech as close to Creole as possible . |
| 6 | He was started on intravenous amiodarone at a rate of 300 mg over the first hour followed by 900 mg over the next 24 hours . |
| 7 | The people running the country were the great landowners and bureaucrats of the old empire , who were themselves a class mainly created by the large-scale bankruptcies of the lesser gentry in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | The serum aspartate aminotransferase was 30 U/l , alkaline phosphatase 200 U/l , total bilirubin 29 µmol/l , albumin 36 g/l , international normalised ratio 1.14 , PTT 33.1 s , and erythrocyte sedimentation rate 2 mm in the first hour . |
| 9 | Schools get a £50 payment to help set up their MiniBranch , plus a further £50 on the first bank day , £1 for each account opened , as well as being provided with software to computerise the branch scheme . |
| 10 | Over the first four years , the company projected an income growth from some £60,000 in the first year of operation to £555,000 by the fourth year . |
| 11 | The fact that no hemispheric difference was found with inter.stimulus intervals of less than 100 msec. in the first experiment of Moscovitch et al. |
| 12 | On taking out an annual subscription ( for which the usual fee is £22 , plus an additional £5 for the first year enrolment ) , Ideal Home Subscribers will receive a copy of the Royal Horticultural Society Address Book , worth £8.99 , absolutely free . |
| 13 | Official statistics for the first nine months of 1990 suggested that the growth in real GDP fell to 2.8 per cent compared with 5.6 per cent in the comparable period of 1989 . |
| 14 | Laboratory results showed an increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate of 44 mm in the first hour , a raised C reactive protein value of 49 mg/l . |
| 15 | So if in if inflation went up say seven or eight percent in the first year , you 're looking at prices in double figures . |
| 16 | Tobacco sales were down 7.6 percent in the first three months of this year compared with the same period last year and 9.6 percent in the second three months . |
| 17 | Seventy three percent in the first trimester , in other words the first three months are male . |
| 18 | The 1961 Census presented small-area statistics for the first time , repeated at a 10 per cent sample for 1966 . |
| 19 | The internal ATG triplets were indeed used for translation initiation in a 5' deletion mutant , where 650 bp including the first ATG codon used for N-Oct 3 translation are missing . |
| 20 | The study ‘ predicted ’ 1.09 deaths ( meaning about one ) among Tory MPs in the first year of the parliament , and 1.54 in the second year . |
| 21 | Nor is it their job , 'cause they do n't really give a fuck about black people in the first place , you know ? ’ |
| 22 | However , despite the existence of these theoretical quotas agreed at OPEC Conferences or at meetings of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee ( MMC-see p. 36573 ) , actual aggregate output was generally understood to have been well in excess of quota ; thus according to the Petroleum Economist OPEC production was estimated to have averaged 21,672,000 bpd in the second half of 1988 , 21,266,000 bpd in the first half of 1989 and about 23,000,000 bpd in the third quarter of 1989 . |
| 23 | Total sales for the first two months of 1991 at 287,876 were nearly 23 per cent down on the same period in 1990 . |
| 24 | Despite the fall in September sales , the figures produced by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders show that total sales in the first nine months , at 1,919,338 , are still 5 per cent up on the same period last year . |
| 25 | After a short tussle a 5lb barbel was heading towards the landing net and I must admit I had visions of winning the match — 6 ½lb in the first twenty minutes is n't a bad start on any water . |
| 26 | It is difficult for unknown newcomers to find those people in the first place . |
| 27 | The exhibition attracted 217 people in the first week . |
| 28 | In the debate on the cocaine threat , the Italian Interior Minister , Antonio Gava , reported that European seizures of the drug reached 4,000 kg in the first quarter of 1990 , compared to a record 6,300 kg during 1989 . |
| 29 | Iraq had accused the UAE , along with Kuwait , of undermining international oil prices by exceeding its agreed OPEC quota of 1,100,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , producing an average of 1,800,000 bpd in the first eight months of the year [ see p. 37631 ] . |
| 30 | Tobacco released to the market was down 11.3 percent in the first half of 1991 compared with the same period of 1990 and 17.7 percent down compared with the second half of 1990 . |