Example sentences of "[conj] in the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That inexperience was to prove disastrous , although in the first two financial years there was a £12.5m profit . |
| 2 | This was a formidable catalogue of sins , but many of the ideas became generally accepted and to some extent underlay Mr Wilson 's thinking in 1963 when he talked of the Conservatives ' period in power since 1951 as ‘ thirteen wasted years ’ and promised that in the first hundred days of dynamic government after a Labour victory at the polls a new atmosphere would pervade Whitehall . |
| 3 | It was further reported ( Danas , 10 November 1987 ) that in the first nine months of 1987 there were 17 rapes in Kosovo , every one of which was between two members of the same ethnic group , and that in this period the incidence of rape in Kosovo was lower than in other parts of Yugoslavia . |
| 4 | The official New China News agency ( Xinhua ) reported that in the first nine months of the year 11,503 people had been arrested for such crimes . |
| 5 | Walberg , Hose and Raster ( 1978 ) showed the significant relationship between LOR and proficiency in English with Japanese children in the USA , but also point out that the rate of learning slows down very quickly over time , so that in the first two months the child learns as much as he will in the next five months , the next year and so on . |
| 6 | In The Form he comments that in the first two degrees it is possible to say " I languysch for lufe " or " Me langes in lufe " ( 106.53 – 4 ) but in the third degree all is comfort and joy . |
| 7 | These satellites and more recent balloon and rocket flights show that in the first six years of the 1970s the Sun 's radiation had increased by 0.2 per cent . |
| 8 | Indeed , City analysts reckon that in the first six months of 1992 listed companies ' dividends only increased by 2% as companies tried to improve their balance sheets and build up dividend cover . |
| 9 | The statistics summarised in Table 3.8 show that in the first four months of 1985 , the number of people entering unemployment averaged 347,525 and the number leaving averaged 338,750 against a total unemployment figure of just over 3 m . |
| 10 | Meyer 's chairman Richard Jewson says that in the first four months of this year there is absolutely no sign of more people moving house than a year ago . |
| 11 | The upshot of these pressures for self-financing was that in the first ten years some 36 per cent of the industry 's investment was internally financed : £488 millions from depreciation allowances and £98 millions from surplus after interest payments . |
| 12 | He said Mr Smith 's statement meant that in the first full two years of a Labour Government , they would have to borrow around an extra £9.5 billion . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's a fact that in the first 12 months one in three firms will close and in the longer term 900pc of new companies will shut in their first five years . ’ |
| 14 | It conveniently marks the beginning of nineteenth-century poetry , though not of course the end of eighteenth-century readers , who lingered on till after 1832 , so that in the first three decades of the new century a great battle of taste was fought out , largely over Wordsworth 's ‘ simple ’ poetry . |
| 15 | A detailed study of figure 1 will show that in the first three minutes after outbreak , the height of the flames grow approximately to the height of the ‘ level ’ of racking on which the fire started , by five minutes some four levels have been involved , and by seven minutes to eight minutes the flames will be breaking out at the top of the racking . |
| 16 | Will my hon. Friend suggest that hospitals in the Sheffield health authority area considering trust status should visit the Walsall trust hospital in the west midlands , where they will discover that in the first three months of this year 1,100 more patients were treated than in the year before — a 13 per cent . |
| 17 | Fontana et al showed that in the first three years of life 97% of helthy children had at least one vowel movement every other day and after the third year , 95% of the children had this pattern . |
| 18 | She told me that in the first dreadful night , when she and John stayed in the hospital , she had tried to soothe the time by the old paper game of making words out of words . |
| 19 | Language work in the final year is more specialized than in the first two years and includes translation and précis writing in administrative , technical and commercial registers of the languages , as well as some interpreting . |
| 20 | to each other than in the first two species . |
| 21 | Grain prices in the last five years of Elizabeth 's reign were 75 per cent higher than in the first five years ; but wages and industrial prices had risen much less steeply . |
| 22 | So far this year the value of sales has been 5 per cent higher than in the first ten months of 1990 . |
| 23 | The cancellation fee will be ten per cent if in the first five years , five per cent between five and ten years , two per cent thereafter . ’ |
| 24 | Last year it was £9.5 billion , and in the first nine months of this year it is £2 billion . |
| 25 | From here anaspids , lampreys and perhaps some thelodonts developed a downturned asymmetrical tail ( hypocercal ) , and in the first two there were definite endoskeletal fin rays with , in at least lampreys , associated musculature . |
| 26 | According to Japan 's Ministry of Finance , direct investment in the Philippines by Japanese companies in 1987 was $72,000,000 , while in 1988 the figure rose to $134,000,000 , and in the first six months of 1989 the amount was already $101,000,000 . |
| 27 | Yet from the first the doctrinaire employment of recitative was tempered by occasional songs , dances , and instrumental pieces ; and in the first real masterpiece of the new genre , Monteverdi 's Orfeo of 1607 , the element of vocal melody — even virtuosity — bulked much more considerably . |
| 28 | After its vast spending spree on new factories at the tail end of the 1970s and in the first five years of the 1980s , IBM scared the pants off its competitors by stressing that it was by far the lowest-cost manufacturer in the industry . |
| 29 | The founder-members numbered eleven , and in the first ten years of its existence a further forty-three members were elected . |
| 30 | Their direction was poor and in the first 12 overs they conceded 12 wides and no-balls , so it was an unexpected bonus when Donald , with the last delivery in his first spell of four overs , had Haynes caught at backward square-leg . |