Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 2 | A novelty ladies ' night boosted the attendance mark past 8,000 for the first time this season , and Chief Executive Frank Corfe said : ‘ The evening was a success . |
| 3 | A novelty ladies ' night boosted the attendance mark past 8,000 for the first time this season , and Chief Executive Frank Corfe said : ‘ The evening was a success . |
| 4 | ANDY GOODWAY and David Hobbs , two former Oldham forwards , were yesterday rehabilitated at international level when Malcolm Reilly named a squad of 21 for the first Test against New Zealand on Saturday week . |
| 5 | This is because the students will be dealing with this for the first time and this is thought to be a clearer presentation . |
| 6 | Remember you 're going into this for the first time . |
| 7 | Clubs had agreed a deal with Central for the first two months of the season , but it was thrown into doubt after some clubs said they were n't getting paid enough . |
| 8 | Fowler and Broad then got off to a good start with 90 for the first wicket before things began to go wrong . |
| 9 | Andersson has not played for a month but trained with United for the first time yesterday and made an instant impression . |
| 10 | That night we had a conference with Tandri for the first time . |
| 11 | Tokyo rose above 21,000 for the first time since March last year , but it finished the week only 0.1% up . |
| 12 | The fact that O'Keeffe was so well-known in her time makes it even more astonishing that we have had to wait until 1993 for the first major European show of her work . |
| 13 | On visiting Hawes Water in 1801 for the first time , Wm . |
| 14 | 1992 — THE Prince tries to kiss his wife in public for the first time in four years on the Indian tour in February . |
| 15 | As right-wing supporters , many appearing in public for the first time in almost three years , welcomed their liberators with monarchist flags and fascist salutes , many other Spaniards faced a terrifying future : so terrifying , indeed , that to some suicide was preferable . |
| 16 | Our President , Lady Braithwaite , appearing in public for the first time in her new role , was warmly greeted , and during the afternoon she drew the first lucky winners of our 200 Club , a most important new venture to raise badly needed funds for the Society . |
| 17 | I vividly recall meeting the young man in 1979 for the first time . |
| 18 | Use of animals in experiments in the UK increased in 1991 for the first time in 15 years . |
| 19 | Brunel would have nothing steeper than 1 in 660 for the first eighty-five miles out of Paddington ; Robert Stephenson planned the London and Birmingham Railway with no gradient steeper than 1 in 330 ( except the first rise from Euston to Camden ) ; and Locke nothing steeper than 1 in 250 on the difficult London and Southampton line . |
| 20 | It was arranged that Hetty would stay on in the shop for a while , and Sarah would work from ten o'clock until three for the first few weeks . |
| 21 | The new organisation is concerned by the increase in 1992 for the first time in six years of fur imports to £22 million , the equivalent of two million animals , and a renewed popularity in fur clothing or trimmings . |
| 22 | In 1749 for the first time a single system of tactics was laid down for the entire army , while in 1765 the Hofkriegsrath assumed the power to appoint to all ranks above that of captain and from 1776 an organized State military transport corps began to be built up . |
| 23 | The pension can be drawn in full for the first eight weeks in hospital , after which your parent will be notified that it will be reduced by a few pounds ( for the exact amount of the reduction see the current issue of leaflet NI9 ) . |
| 24 | Questions about shareholdings were put in 1987 for the first time , at the request of the Treasury , anxious to confirm and expand the conclusions of previous surveys by market research groups . |
| 25 | The one at Harewood ( Fig. 23c ) , erected by Carr in 1760 for the first earl , is designed to form an appropriate approach to the great gate ( Fig. 23b ) of the new Palladian house . |
| 26 | The pregnancy was uneventful apart from bedrest for the first four months . |
| 27 | Britain 's engineering industry went into trade deficit in 1983 for the first time ( see chart ) . |
| 28 | The survey predicted that France would have lower inflation and higher growth than the OECD average in 1990 for the first time since 1970 , with retail price inflation expected to be 2.9 per cent and growth estimated at 3.1 per cent in 1990 . |
| 29 | The Commission published a report on competition policy on June 24 , 1991 , in which it said that the number of intra-EC mergers among larger companies had in 1990 for the first time exceeded that of purely national mergers . |
| 30 | More than 680 homes were sold in January , rising to 750 for the first three weeks of this month . |