Example sentences of "[adv] [num] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | So sixteen in the first block , sixteen for the third block and sixteen for the intervening block . |
| 2 | On fairly conservative criteria this parliamentary force numbered perhaps thirty-five in the first half of the 1790s , twenty in 1806 and between thirty-five and sixty in the parliaments from 1812 to 1831 , dropping to about thirty in the reformed parliament of 1832 . |
| 3 | When the French batted they could muster only 78 in the first innings . |
| 4 | In 1990 Tatra sold 10,000 trucks , but just 80 in the first half of 1992 . |
| 5 | Wimpey revealed that its building programme has slumped from 10,000 houses in 1986 to just 2,800 in the first half of this year . |
| 6 | As the players trooped off , the home side seemed on the verge of safety , and England 's hopes of capturing seven wickets in the final session seemed , at best , remote , given their success rate of just two in the first two sessions of play . |
| 7 | The gold price soared again , shooting up by nearly one-fifth in the first week of 1974 . |
| 8 | In the parishes studied by Wrigley and Schofield , IMR declined from about 160 in the first half to about 130 in the latter half of the eighteenth century . |
| 9 | Over the last five years , the number of centres entering candidates for National Certificate has grown steadily and , over the same period , the number of modules in the catalogue has risen from around 700 in the first year of operation to around 2500 this year . |
| 10 | Even if one may offer alternative solutions for some of the actual tempo relationships Devos establishes , he is surely on safer ground than is William Christie in his more recent recording ( Harmonia Mundi HMC 901298 ) , where not only are there no audible attempts to establish tempo relationships , except where the composer does not call for them ( as we shall see ) , but the tactus lurches from 72 to 85 to 66 and then 96 in the first four tempos employed , and the tempo within sections is seriously disturbed on several occasions by extravagant rallentandos . |
| 11 | The resistance continued to claim that Vietnamese troops and settlers were infiltrating Cambodia ( over 5,000 in the first half of the month alone ) , and in one report alleged Lao involvement . |