Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In chartered helicopters they hovered over the empty stretch of road between Fenny Stratford and Buckingham to photograph the bare tarmac and the last few barriers and police cars parked there at first light . |
| 2 | Secondly Table 6.1 shows that community service costs increased markedly between first and second assessment ( as one would expect , given that referral to the psychogeriatric service , even without the operation of the Home Support Project , is usually the signal for an assessment of home care needs ) . |
| 3 | The M & S managers have long known and practised all this instinctively on their home ground : but that 's what happens when businesses move away from first principles . |
| 4 | Restrictions on silviculture in the tropics are most striking in the area of soil properties ; for example , the pisolites of parts of West Africa are some 10 m deep with no obvious horizons and , although trees grow well at first , they later collapse and the removal of the forest leads to desolation resembling a gravel pit . |
| 5 | Do n't worry if your compression joints leak slightly at first — this happens to professional plumbers too . |