Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the first [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The country 's current-account deficit for the first 10 months of the fiscal year also showed a fall of 27 per cent compared with the same period in 1989/90 . |
| 2 | In this year the US economy experienced serious trade and current-account deficits : the $170 billion trade deficit for the first nine months was due in particular to an increase in non-oil imports . |
| 3 | ‘ We played them off the park for the first 25 minutes of the second half . ’ |
| 4 | The thriving Teesside club also finished third in a special challenge award for the first 12 men home , underlining their strength-in-depth . |
| 5 | In his travels , Arkle will be staffing the Scripture Union stand for the first three weeks of Spring Harvest at Minehead , where he hopes to spend some time with Frank Shayi , SU South Africa 's Fieldwork Director . |
| 6 | Patients who start out using high levels of gum — about one piece every waking hour for the first six weeks of quitting — do better than half-hearted chewers . |
| 7 | It took well over an hour for the first 48 delegates — who included no Soviet bloc nation , nor India , nor Burma , nor either of the Chinas , nor a scattering of other countries who could not bring themselves to accept Japan 's word — to file up to the podium to sign . |
| 8 | The vital signs of the patients were checked every hour for the first 12 hours , every two hours for the second 12 hours , and every four hours for the following 24 hours until they became stable , and then four times daily . |
| 9 | In order to ensure a rapid response , cleanup crews will be guaranteed immunity from liability for property damage for the first 60 days after an accident |
| 10 | The party leader , Július Sólnes , took responsibility for the first two , while the deputy leader , Oli Th . |
| 11 | Eurosatellite , an industrial consortium based in Munich , is building the French satellite , plus two others — one for West Germany and one that will act as a ‘ spare ’ in orbit for the first two . |
| 12 | Well erm , I 've just come up and and the accident so I 'm only entitled to money for the first four days . |
| 13 | We rode in the field for the first two weeks , and then I had to face the roads and the tractors . |
| 14 | He jabbered about football for the first five minutes to smother her angry silence . |
| 15 | The AirBreak group , which also includes Next Holidays , Peter Pan Ltd and Suntan Tours , revealed a £2.9 million loss for the first six months of this year . |
| 16 | Sistelcom 's president , Victoria Reinoso , announced that investment in the new system was running at some $3.5m per annum , and acknowledged that the system would run at a loss for the first two years . |
| 17 | Mineral revenue for the first four months of 1990 was calculated at US$1,075,600 . |
| 18 | The public sector repaid £3,834 million last month , almost £3 billion more than the City had expected and , after crediting privatisation proceeds of £6.3 billion , the shortfall in government revenue for the first ten months of the current financial year actually fell back to £21.6 billion at the end of January . |
| 19 | Although the first two rounds of this year 's Davis Cup , one week after the Australian Open and then a week after Lipton , made it possible for him to fit them into his tournament programme for the first three months of the year when his number one ranking was under such threat , he says , ‘ The Davis Cup is certainly one of my priorities now . ’ |
| 20 | Later in the year proposals for specific research projects and the Centre 's overall programme for the first three years will be drawn up . |
| 21 | The quotas cover 39 species ; the National Marine Fisheries Service can halt fishing if it finds the catch has reached the quota for the first six months of the year . |
| 22 | The Gulamalis received their rent for the first three months , then nothing for four months , and were told the computer was broken , the accounts were being moved , the cheque was in the post , and so on . |
| 23 | This can be incorporated into the merger agreement , with effect for the first two or three years after the merger . |
| 24 | By the same token try to avoid bright natural light for the first two to three days after the flight at times corresponding to 5 to 11 o'clock in the morning on old time as this will tend to advance your body clock . |
| 25 | From what I could gather , we played crap for the first 20–25 minutes . |
| 26 | We would completely pin back a side for the first 20 mins , and invariably crack them . |
| 27 | Wales were convinced that they were one up on Scotland in having already experienced Joel Dume in their England match , while the Sassenachs ' top brass reckoned Scotland would be at a definite disadvantage for the first 20 minutes . |
| 28 | At present , patients are prevented from receiving the benefit for the first six months of a terminal illness . |
| 29 | One of the most controversial proposals was the abolition of benefit for the first two days of sickness . |
| 30 | There have also been symbolic measures ( such as restoring pay beds in NHS facilities ) , minor cuts ( such as withdrawal of supplementary benefits in vacations for students ) , some marginal privatization ( from 1986 employers were made responsible for paying sickness benefit for the first 28 weeks of an employee 's absence from work ) , tougher criteria ( people have to be ‘ actually seeking work ’ to be entitled to receive unemployment benefit and since 1 988 housing benefit is paid to fewer households ) , and an increase in the numbers relying on private medical insurance ( from 4 to 8 per cent since 1979 ) . |