Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | On taking out an annual subscription ( for which the usual fee is £22 , plus an additional £5 for the first year enrolment ) , Ideal Home Subscribers will receive a copy of the Royal Horticultural Society Address Book , worth £8.99 , absolutely free . |
| 2 | Official statistics for the first nine months of 1990 suggested that the growth in real GDP fell to 2.8 per cent compared with 5.6 per cent in the comparable period of 1989 . |
| 3 | The 1961 Census presented small-area statistics for the first time , repeated at a 10 per cent sample for 1966 . |
| 4 | Total sales for the first two months of 1991 at 287,876 were nearly 23 per cent down on the same period in 1990 . |
| 5 | His truly phenomenal and technique and poetic incandescence prompt even the most blasé listener to feel that they are hearing familiar works for the first time . |
| 6 | Their contact will probably have been very superficial , and immediate reactions , especially on meeting severely handicapped people for the first time , ones of alarm . |
| 7 | Coming onto a new series for the first time could be a daunting prospect even to the acting profession 's hardy perennials . |
| 8 | We have a new series for the first time breeder by Jane van Lennep taken from her superb new book First Foal . |