Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | In the larger nations in the 1980S IBM in effect became the second national champion , and in some smaller countries perhaps even the first national champion computer supplier . |
2 | Slowly , he moved nearer to me , but just then the first wild man began to get up from the ground . |
3 | GLASNOST reached Twickenham yesterday when the first Soviet national side to visit Britain startled the Rugby Football Union by inviting their hosts to tour the Soviet Union next year . |
4 | There are many things to think about before even the first tentative daffodil bulb is sunk into the ground . |
5 | It was more a punishment than a kiss and she hated it , but she hated even more the first faint stirring in her blood . |
6 | If we go back to the first few minutes , or maybe even the first few seconds , there must have been an incredibly high density of matter near that point ? |
7 | Sandy played absolutely fantastically the first two days , but the greens were very strange and unkind to him . |
8 | In that case , the Dip.HE for such students will continue to be very largely the first two years of a degree course , though its provision may increase if credit transfer develops nationally and it becomes more common for students to undertake a two-year Dip.HE course in one institution and move to another for a third year . |