Example sentences of "[prep] [unc] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | These changes show that RA has altered the Hox code in a manner that leads to the posterior transformation of r2/3 in the first branchial arch . |
| 2 | Revised figures show that Britain 's GDP rose at an annual rate of 1.4% in the first quarter , up from the original estimate of 1.1% . |
| 3 | The raison d'être for W5A030 in the first place was that Mercedes ' transmission engineers prefer continuously variable transmission to anything else . |
| 4 | One sometimes gets the impression that IBM Corp is more solicitous over the needs of its Stamford , Connecticut-based IBM Credit Corp subsidiary than it is over its own , and yesterday , in the wake of the parent 's big $285m loss , IBM Credit was able to announce that profits actually rose 0.3% at $58.3m ; the return on average equity was 20.2% , compared with 21.3% in the first quarter of 1992 and in the first three months of 1993 , IBM Credit originated financing for $1,700m of equipment , software and services for IBM 's customers and distribution channels , down 22% on the figure for the first quarter 1992 — financing for end users decreased by 45% to $600m while financing for distribution channels decreased by 1% to $1,100 , the company noted . |
| 5 | Corporate bankruptcies in Japan fell for the second month , but were still up 7.5% in the first four months of 1993 . |
| 6 | The pre-tax loss of its Swedish partner Volvo grew to SKr331m ( $14m ) from SKr248m in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 7 | I mean , if we take this as a game , as you rightly describe it , he only takes these people from th in the first place , to have hostages that he can use as bargaining chips later . |
| 8 | The proportion of men aged 15–19 who were found to be infected with HIV-1 at their first test increased from an average of 2.4% up to 1990 to 4.7% in the first nine months of 1991 . |
| 9 | Nor can Devos yet match Bronfman for inexorable bravura in the second movement ; he is also prone to misreadings — in the Second Sonata at 0′44″ and 2′20″ in the slow movement , in the First Sonata at 2′45″ in the first movement , and in the Janáček first movement at 1′19″ . |
| 10 | Drawbacks include some scrambled passages here and there , a false violin entry at 20′57″ in the first movement , a recording with distracting low hum , poor microphone placement and a bronchial audience . |
| 11 | On May 18th Antoine Riboud , BSN 's boss , said that sales had fallen by 5.7% in the first quarter , and threatened to cut prices to defend its markets . |
| 12 | Jim Eastlake , an analyst at Dataquest , reckons that most chip consumers were ( sensibly ) expecting memory-chip prices to fall by 5–10% in the first three months of 1991 . |
| 13 | Its GDP crept up by 0.2% in the first quarter of 1993 , a rise of 0.6% on the first quarter of 1992 ; and its retail sales quickened to a 12-month increase of 4.1% in March . |