Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people running the country were the great landowners and bureaucrats of the old empire , who were themselves a class mainly created by the large-scale bankruptcies of the lesser gentry in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The 1961 Census presented small-area statistics for the first time , repeated at a 10 per cent sample for 1966 . |
| 5 | The study ‘ predicted ’ 1.09 deaths ( meaning about one ) among Tory MPs in the first year of the parliament , and 1.54 in the second year . |
| 6 | Nor is it their job , 'cause they do n't really give a fuck about black people in the first place , you know ? ’ |
| 7 | Total sales for the first two months of 1991 at 287,876 were nearly 23 per cent down on the same period in 1990 . |
| 8 | Despite the fall in September sales , the figures produced by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders show that total sales in the first nine months , at 1,919,338 , are still 5 per cent up on the same period last year . |
| 9 | On the negative side press reports indicated that the cost of the programme during the first half of 1990 had been a massive rise in unemployment ( from an official 6,000 at the end of 1989 to 568,000 ) ; a 30 per cent fall in output ; a 25 per cent drop in industrial sales in the first quarter ( in comparison with the same period in 1989 ) ; and an estimated 30 per cent drop in living standards , as real incomes slumped by around 35 per cent and 90 per cent of prices were freed ( following the abolition of subsidies ) to find their market level . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And Stena Sealink claimed that the total market had grown by a mammoth 39pc over the first four months of 1993 compared with the previous year . |
| 12 | Farming history was made when a bunch of 10 Charolais steers grossed £17,000 in the first satellite-television auction of prime meat on the hoof . |
| 13 | Their contact will probably have been very superficial , and immediate reactions , especially on meeting severely handicapped people for the first time , ones of alarm . |
| 14 | Coming onto a new series for the first time could be a daunting prospect even to the acting profession 's hardy perennials . |
| 15 | We have a new series for the first time breeder by Jane van Lennep taken from her superb new book First Foal . |