Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] the first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And at any moment now the first members of staff would be arriving . |
| 2 | And it was a genuinely historic moment when the first tanks moved past the blocks of apartments in the Beirut suburbs , many of the buildings scorched and smashed by months of fighting . |
| 3 | It has a strange history and to understand it it is necessary to turn the clock back eight thousand years , to the moment when the first cats were being domesticated in the Middle East . |
| 4 | It was shortly after , during the Carboniferous period when the first reptiles appeared , that really massive tree-growth was achieved . |
| 5 | The work of cataloguing goes back to the early years of Italian unification in the late nineteenth century when the first photographs were taken of archaeological sites and of celebrated pictures and monuments . |