Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after 40 minutes the first wave of the military action ended and as dawn broke over the capital there was no sign of a ground operation . |
| 2 | By the end of 12 months the first group recorded 20 per cent lower medical claims than the other two , and the savings amounted to six times the cost of the health promotion package they had received . |
| 3 | By the end of the fifth of seven laps the first two groups had come together and at this stage Albert Shaw ( CB Hire/Kings Moss ) and veteran Eddie Crory ( Whirline West Down ) broke away and opened up a 40-second lead . |
| 4 | In 30 cases the first biopsy was taken using a fibreoptic endoscope . |
| 5 | Within 45 minutes the first targets had been seized . |
| 6 | This passed and on 6 August the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima , killing outright some 80 000 people and exposing many thousands more to the longer-term but not less deadly effects of radiation . |
| 7 | On 1 June the first eight-page issue was finally published . |
| 8 | On 15 September the first tanks went into action on the Fourth Army 's front between Combles and Martinpuich . |
| 9 | The ceremony at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum was for the presentation of an old Spitfire that had been hauled out of an English lake and identified as belonging to 71 Squadron the first of the Eagle squadrons formed from American volunteers back in 1940 . |
| 10 | BNP will offer high income multiples of up to four times the first income ( which has to be that of the professional ) plus three times the second . |
| 11 | On 24 May the first batch of 1,000 Serbs had been moved from Viktring , and further lorry loads were leaving the camp during McCreery 's visit . |
| 12 | For 249 Squadron the first introduction to real action on Malta came as something of a shock . |
| 13 | At 0630 hours the first of the early risers entered the cookhouse for breakfast . |
| 14 | Indeed , the first Advertisements Regulation Act of 1907 antedated by two years the first Planning Act . |