Example sentences of "[unc] for the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discount , running for one year , comes off the C&G base mortgage rate of 8.5% , producing a rate of 6.5% for the first year and an annual percentage rate of 9.3% . |
| 2 | If they were included he would surely return to No.1 for the first time in six years . |
| 3 | Now on the seventeenth of September Mr met Peter on the defendant 's firm er for the first time at his office , where they had er a general discussion about the business and about what needed to be done in order to secure it and er the plaintiffs at that stage told Peter that there should be er no problems over finance as he understood the bank were willing to assist and at that stage he wanted to move as quickly as possible to exchange contracts on the business erm , for two reasons . |
| 4 | When he came to work on La fanciulla del West for the first time , it was with a certain amount of awe . |
| 5 | To run BBCBASIC(Z80) for the first time : Make sure the " Index " is displayed on your Z88 . |
| 6 | It sold dollars and European currency units for pounds in a determined fashion to counter heavy selling , which briefly pushed the pound down below DM2.95 for the first time since August 1987 . |
| 7 | Selling pressure also sent sterling briefly below DM2.95 for the first time since August 1987 . |
| 8 | Hosting the 250 cc Grand Prix for the first time … but not the last . |
| 9 | With $1.5 billion of coffee exports last year , Colombia 's share overtook Brazil 's for the first time . |
| 10 | BRITAIN 'S inflation rate yesterday went lower than Germany 's for the first time in 24 years . |
| 11 | The UK inflation rate in February remained at 4.1pcm , lower than Germany 's for the first time in 25 years . |
| 12 | Paris and Frankfurt are growing particularly fast ( capitalisation increases of 83 per cent and 64 per cent respectively during 1989 ) , with turnover of domestic equities on German Exchanges being larger than the ISE 's for the first time ever in 1989 . |
| 13 | At Motorfair , Nissan shows its new 300 ZX for the first time in Britain . |
| 14 | Highlight is the Manx International over three laps ( 113 miles ) , which goes back Am/Pro for the first time since it started in 1936 . |
| 15 | In North America , Compaq Computer Corp 's portables market share grew 65% , reaching 17.6% for the first quarter , up from its 11.4% year-end market share , the company said . |
| 16 | Compaq said operating expenses as a percentage of revenues were 13.4% for the first quarter , a record low . |
| 17 | AT&T Co has raised $400m with an issue of notes due May 1 1995 at par to yield 3.35% for the first year , after which the notes ' yield will float on a quarterly basis over the three-month London Interbank Offered Rate and are noncallable for life . |
| 18 | There was a competition , and the winner saw his work in situ for the first time this afternoon . |
| 19 | That amount has just passed £1 billion per annum for the first time , representing a real terms increase of 2.5 per cent . |
| 20 | Patients living within the defined geographical area were considered to have severe acute renal failure if the serum creatinine concentration rose above 500 µmol/l for the first time and then returned to below that level and remained there or if the patient died during the acute illness and the history or necropsy confirmed acute renal failure . |
| 21 | Giorgio Melchiori rightly sees pronouns as ‘ semiotic pointers ’ towards a ‘ network of relations ’ , and notes the far greater proportion of second-person pronouns in Shakespeare ( some 37.2 per cent compared to other poets ' average of 20 per cent , with 40.3 per cent for the first person ) . |
| 22 | And the Greenwich is offering mortgages of at least £30,000 at 13.45 per cent for the first year . |
| 23 | The two-year deal amounted to 9.5 per cent for the first year and inflation plus 2.5 per cent for the second . |
| 24 | The figures deepened City anxiety over the outlook for inflation which is now expected to end the year between 7.5 and 7.75 per cent and remain above 7 per cent for the first quarter of 1990 . |
| 25 | The debt service ratio ( as a percentage of GNP ) averaged 19.3 per cent in 1990 , and 20.7 per cent for the first quarter of 1991 . |
| 26 | The average wage increase in industry this spring is slightly below five per cent for the first time in four years . |
| 27 | Their share of the national vote dropped more than five per cent to below 30 per cent for the first time . |
| 28 | In fact , while the overall United Kingdom result shows a modest swing to Labour , in Scotland Labour 's share of the vote fell by 3.5 per cent , dropping below 40 per cent for the first time since October 1974 . |
| 29 | Yesterday the region — once the engine room of the late Eighties boom — saw its jobless total top 10 per cent for the first time since the end of the Second World War . |
| 30 | The Christian Democrats ( DC ) polled under 30 per cent for the first time since 1946 , but remained the largest party with 29.7 per cent and 206 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |