Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that summer of 1940 the first few families began to leave town and come to live in their country ville outside Fontanellato . |
| 2 | Anyone who has ever attended a recording session of this repertory work will know what problems are created by the need to get the woodwind chords precise enough at the start of both the first two movements . |
| 3 | you know , below the shadow of both the next two properties , we shall , we shall , you know , just have a brick wall , and if they they just shifted the garage to one end and as far as I 'm concerned it 's an excuse for them to put up the power , that is , |
| 4 | The action begins next Friday with all the first round matches being played . |
| 5 | The first German edition of Capital ( 1867 ) — a thousand copies — took five years to sell out , but in 1872 the first thousand copies of the Russian edition sold out in less than two months . |
| 6 | In 1985 the second largest union , the AUEW , was faced with the threat of expulsion from the TUC for breaking the policy . |
| 7 | William Thompson provided moral and economic justification while Richard Carlile 's Everywoman 's Book was in 1826 the first devoted to contraception , advocating those methods propounded by Place , and similar advocacy came with works of Robert Dale Owen and Charles Knowlton . |
| 8 | Er , so two of us came in sixty-one the third one , youngest one , came in sixty- five . |
| 9 | In 1924 the First Labour Government devoted much effort to restoring normal relations with the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | In 1904 the first Pan-Presbyterian Council was held and in 1905 the Baptist World Alliance was formed at Exeter Hall . |
| 11 | In 1870 the first Married Women 's Property Act was passed , primarily in order to give working class women control over any earnings they might make . |
| 12 | In 1866 the Austrians were thrown out of Venetia , and in 1870 the last remaining territory of the Papal states was annexed . |
| 13 | In 1917 the First German Association of Large Families was founded and at least two active pro-natalist organisations were established . |
| 14 | In 1873 the first Welsh Black Cattle Society was formed but in 1883/4 it was divided into north and south breed societies to improve the two Welsh types . |
| 15 | In 1899 the second International Congregational Conference met in Boston and the Governor of Massachusetts , the Mayor of Boston , the Bishop of Massachusetts and the President of Harvard participated . |
| 16 | More working days were lost because of strikes in the last 12 months of the last Labour Government than have been lost in all the last five years put together . |
| 17 | ( 3 ) In 1902 the first major science fiction film was made , in France : the twenty-one-minute silent A Trip to the Moon , by George Méliès . |
| 18 | In 1981 the first large timeshare complex opened at Langdale , helped by a tourist board grant . |
| 19 | In 1970 the first Congressional reform bill for more than two decades was passed — the Legislative Reorganization Act . |
| 20 | In the early 19th century shopkeepers began offering free gifts as an inducement to trade , while in 1844 the first co-operative dividend scheme was introduced . |
| 21 | In 1966 the first international taekwondo federation was formed . |
| 22 | In 1832 the first parliamentary reform bill was passed and Dundee was one of the new constituencies created by the Act . |
| 23 | And in 1942 the first major bombings of German cities were carried out by allied air flotillas , and as the Luftwaffe lost control of the skies many Germans began to experience with dread the sort of terror-bombing which their own airforce had inflicted on numerous European cities since 1939 and which the allies were now returning with immeasurably greater force and concentration . |
| 24 | The Eugenics Society set up in 1926 the first medical study on contraceptive experience , which reported benefits to health . |
| 25 | In 1907 the first Egyptian Nationalist Congress met . |
| 26 | Psychology has concluded that the most formative period of life is childhood , and in particular the first five years of life . |
| 27 | In 1880 the first cyclic sulphur-nitrogen free radical — — was prepared as a deep green powder with a metallic lustre . |
| 28 | Originally it was taught privately , but in 1936 the first local education authority classes commenced in Essex . |
| 29 | Calls for citizen participation in planning encouraged groups to undertake practical work , and in 1974 the first self-help General Improvement Area was completed , at Black Road , Macclesfield . |
| 30 | In 1965 the first advanced gas cooled reactor , Dungeness B , was ordered . |