Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] first and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proportion of young people from classes I and II staying on at school until the age of 18 or later increased by 2.4 times between the first and the last cohort , while the corresponding proportions for the other two groups of classes are 2.3 and 2.1 times . |
| 2 | Hilary particularly remembers ‘ … the mesmeric Senta , whose teaching was so brilliant that Rata Quick and I both achieved the splits for the first and last time in our lives , with no untoward effects ! ’ . |
| 3 | The recall part of the experiment started approximately 50 minutes after the first and 10 minutes after the last of the junctions had been driven through ( the exact times varied considerably depending on driving style and traffic conditions ) . |
| 4 | There were no significant differences in the mean albumin concentrations between the first and second visits and the first and third visits . |
| 5 | The backs of the heads of the first and second officer and engineer flashed on the video screens . |
| 6 | Many of the immigrants were supporters of the First and Second Internationals and had considerable experience in the labour movements of their native countries . |
| 7 | Stopped for three months under the first and second Waverley criteria . |
| 8 | Some local education authorities reorganised their primary schools on the first and middle school pattern recommended by Plowden ( eg Surrey , Isle of Wight , Suffolk ) , but the great majority continued to follow the established 5 — 7 , 7 — 11 pattern . |
| 9 | Though greeted with courtesy and politeness by the First and Second Elders , the intrusion of more humans onto the Sense-Sphere is covertly opposed by the City Administrator . |
| 10 | The inquiry was ordered into the Glasgow Paddock Selling Hurdle on December 12 , 1987 after allegations of interference by the riders of the first and second horses . |
| 11 | This is because the tentacle scales of the first and second oral tentacle pores are also spinelike , resembling the oral and apical papillae . |
| 12 | It is nearly a quarter of a century — longer than the periods between the first and second world wars — since Labour last had the support of as many as four votes in 10 . |
| 13 | Later research showed that they were in fact storehouses and workshops , attached to hut-dwelling communities during the first and second centuries AD : quernstones were found in such a cellar at Barns of Airlie , and a chamber in a Carlungie souterrain seems to have been used for both stone and metal working . |
| 14 | In the case of other human beings I have the evidence of my senses for the first and last links of the series , but not for the intermediate link . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , he was wrong about the origins of the First and Second World Wars , ’ roared back the teacher , who later gave his name as Mr Nigel Varley . |
| 16 | the set also includes Debussy 's famous orchestrations of the First and Third Gymnopèdies , two short pieces ( Les Pantins dansent and Chooses vues à droite et à gauche [ sans lunettes ] , the latter his only pieces for violin and piano ) and the reasonably well-known Scorate , whose last movement can be heard either as 22 minutes of timeless , hypnotic beauty or the nearest Satie came to a musical sleeping draught . |
| 17 | ( 10.14 ) With this , ( 10.13 ) reduces to the pair of Legendre equations ( 10.15 ) and a class of solutions of ( 10.13 ) can be expressed as a sum of products ( 10.16 ) where and are Legendre functions of the first and second kinds respectively , and a n , q n , Pn and b n are series of arbitrary constants . |
| 18 | However , for the class of Gowdy cosmologies , it is found to be convenient to consider the class of solutions given by ( 10.64 ) where and are arbitrary linear combinations of the terms in curly brackets , including the Fourier-Bessel integrals of the form ( 10.65 ) and are Bessel functions of the first and second kinds of zero order , and and are sets of arbitrary constants . |
| 19 | With these parameters , the main equation ( 10.62 ) becomes ( 10.73 ) and this has a series of separable solutions of the form ( 10.74 ) where and are Legendre functions of the first and second kinds . |
| 20 | These involve Legendre functions of the first and second kinds ( 10.78 ) where a n , q n , Pn and b n are series of arbitrary constants . |
| 21 | Then there are the solutions of ( 10.62 ) that are contained in ( 10.64 ) and have previously been included in Gowdy cosmologies , namely ( 10.80 ) where and ) are Bessel functions of the first and second kinds of zero order , , , and are sets of arbitrary constants . |
| 22 | This constraint is not required for colliding plane waves and an additional set of aperiodic solutions is given by ( 10.81 ) where and are modified Bessel functions of the first and second kinds of zero order . |
| 23 | Finally , there are the separable solutions of ( 10.73 ) which are non-singular on the initial boundaries , namely ( 10.82 ) which again involve Legendre functions of the first and second kind . |
| 24 | Rather , groups of from four to six youngsters from the first and second years of several project schools were engaged in tape-recorded discussion , usually in a section of the library or an empty neighbouring classroom . |
| 25 | Hall , whose second round score was 79 , missed from seven feet at the first and from much the same distance at the last . |
| 26 | It was in the years between the First and Second World Wars that this enthusiasm was at its height . |
| 27 | Needless to say , these measures proved effective , and Persian weavers went back to using natural dyes until the more reliable chrome dyes were introduced in the years between the First and Second World Wars . |
| 28 | The second volume of drawings in the J. Paul Getty Museum comes out four years after the first and is equally welcome . |
| 29 | The second cleavage is at right angles to the first and the third again at right angles . |
| 30 | Information from the drink diaries , based on a comparison of the averages for the first and the last three weeks of the course , revealed a shift from high to moderate drinking levels for males , that is , from 40 to 32 units per week . |