Example sentences of "[prep] [art] first and [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That means political unpopularity for the first and the wrath of the ERM for the second . |
| 2 | Information from the drink diaries , based on a comparison of the averages for the first and the last three weeks of the course , revealed a shift from high to moderate drinking levels for males , that is , from 40 to 32 units per week . |
| 3 | Between the first and the second DPQ over three-quarters of the participants either reduced to ( 72 per cent ) or remained at ( six per cent ) a medium or low level of risk . |
| 4 | Overall , almost three-quarters of the participants either reduced their intake ( 61 per cent ) or remained at the same level ( 11 per cent ) between the first and the last three weeks of the course . |
| 5 | The method involves calculating two half-slopes : the left-hand half-slope is calculated between the first and the middle summary point , and the right-hand half-slope between the middle and the third point . |
| 6 | So a week or so may elapse between the first and the last eggs hatching . |
| 7 | It is not easy to distinguish between the first and the second categories : Reynolds could well have belonged to both . |
| 8 | The proportion of young people from classes I and II staying on at school until the age of 18 or later increased by 2.4 times between the first and the last cohort , while the corresponding proportions for the other two groups of classes are 2.3 and 2.1 times . |
| 9 | So the payment increased on average by 75% between the first and the second repetition , while the group payments rose from 93% to 108% ( of an individual payment ) between the first and second repetition clear evidence of a learning effect and slight evidence of a group effect . |
| 10 | Note the improvement ( though still to a high level ) in and the more modest improvement in between the first and the second repetitions . |
| 11 | What some writers now term the ‘ widening gap ’ between the rich and the poor , both within countries and between the First and the Third Worlds , might tempt us to subscribe pessimistically to the view that the countries of the Third World are passive victims of the exercise of First World hegemon countries ' power . |
| 12 | Gastroscopies ( 2–5 per patient ) had been performed with the interval between the first and the last endoscopy varying from 11 to 170 months . |
| 13 | Student 's t test was used to compare mean difference ( D ) between the first and the second biopsy labelling indices in relapsing and non-relapsing patients . |
| 14 | The male looks after the first and the female the second . |
| 15 | Should he get back into Oxford and try for a First and a Rugby Blue ? |
| 16 | In this article I will deal with the first and the last — ‘ professional clearance ’ and confidentiality . |
| 17 | McAteer with the first and the second was entirely down to Lee who exploited the goalkeeper 's crumbling self-confidence . |
| 18 | This can be done for any letter position , including the first and the last letters of a word , and for more than one letter position , although it is not a good policy to allow more than two per word if the accuracy of the recogniser is to be relied on at all . |
| 19 | The feelings of joy and despair in these two passages are almost equally balanced , and the Jewish cry of delight on seeing the shore-line of Palestine in the first and the image of Arab guns and hopelessness on leaving Palestine in the second are even more relevant now than they were then . |
| 20 | Mira herself makes several appearances , both in the first and the third persons , before also discovering that her name is on the list as the delegate from Amalgamemnon , whereupon she too ‘ dies ’ . |
| 21 | In the first and the third of these phases , roles and statuses are carefully distinguished ; in the second they are confused , " we " and " they " are mixed up , behaviour which would be outrageous in ordinary life becomes normal and even obligatory . |
| 22 | The dragon-ships of midstream , abandoning the dead in the first and the second , thrust forward and , turning rapidly in , ran up on shore further upriver and began to land men fast , under a renewed fall of arrows . |
| 23 | This has been obscured because the connection between accumulation in the national context and the growth of the transnational capitalist class has been rather different in the First and the Third ( and also now the Second ) Worlds for a variety of reasons , of which corruption is one . |
| 24 | In May 1987 with the club still in the first and the accounts showing a profit , Robert Maxwell , under fire for his involvement in other clubs like Watford and Derby County , handed chairmanship to his son Kevin . |
| 25 | The second cleavage is at right angles to the first and the third again at right angles . |
| 26 | She had left herself the early part of the evening free , and she had just finished dressing when Florian and Nicky dropped in to show her some new photos of the fair South African child who went by the name of Joni Jones , Florian having insisted on the first and the name with which he had replaced his original , paradoxically both more and less ordinary name , having been legalised in both countries whose passports he held , the United Kingdom and South Africa . |