Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of a first " in BNC.

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1 A survey of women in Massachusetts has found the average length of a first healthy pregnancy to be 41 weeks and 1 day , with subsequent pregnancies at 40 weeks & 3 days ; Black and Japanese women have shorter pregnancies .
2 Patients and their relatives in category D are clearly at greatly increased risk of a first or subsequent primary tumour and need life-time surveillance .
3 The prize of £2,000 is awarded to the most outstanding synopsis of a first book by a young author in the field of archaeology , ethnography or ancient history .
4 Football mythology includes the unlikely tale of a First Division club laundering cash from the Great Train Robbery through its turnstiles back in the 1960s .
5 A defined series of tests would be the work content and the delivery of the report on the test results in a specified format would be the defined completion of a first contract .
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