Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] the first [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Childebert and Chlothar were indeed adding to the first sixty-five , or even the first seventy-eight , clauses of Lex Salica , then the first Merovingian code can be dated before 511 . |
| 2 | Published at the beginning of the century it comprises 10 volumes , although only the first eight have been translated into English . |
| 3 | The method used for climbing steep ice which employs the two forward facing points and perhaps the first two of the downward ones . |
| 4 | Seven nations ( Australia , France , New Zealand , Norway , the UK , Argentina , Chile ) claim sectors of the continent ; the claims of the last three overlap substantially , and only the first five recognize each others ' claims reciprocally . |
| 5 | The subject of this short ‘ case study ’ is the new Bachelor of Education degree and particularly the first two years . |
| 6 | Having played so well for the first two rounds and then the first three holes of the third , by which time he was tieing for the lead with Parry at 10 under par , Woosnam came to grief immediately after the Saturday storm . |
| 7 | Among the more successful privately owned terminals have been the Glaswegian trio of Deanside , Mossend and Law junction , all of which ( but especially the first two ) have attracted healthy quantities of regular traffic . |
| 8 | The range was wide , but only the first two attracted much notice , the Arts Council Working Party pointing out in 1969 that since these were not crimes at all , how could it be ‘ a heavily punishable crime to ‘ induce ’ these particular non-crimes ? ’ |
| 9 | This studied the texts by the techniques of literary and historical analysis , attempted to separate out historical material from legend or poetry , and even began to raise sensitive problems of authorship — as , for instance , whether all the first five books of the Old Testament were in fact written by Moses . |
| 10 | unc As only the first two can be plotted on the screen many systems only calculate and hold x and y . |