Example sentences of "[prep] the first [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was generally felt he would have won at St Andrews after his 29 for the first nine in the first round if he had n't had part of the round washed out and had to continue the next day . |
| 2 | Then there is the maddening fact that , of the five great investigative Ws ( who ? what ? where ? when ? and why ? ) , we can still only account for the first four in the matter of the Watergate break-in . |
| 3 | From 16 April 1995 the number 1 will be inserted after the first 0 in UK area codes . |
| 4 | Of the first four in the race , three had been born in Jamaica , an amazing achievement for this tiny Caribbean island . |
| 5 | For an established and successful brand , the objectives might well be , to a large extent , ‘ maintenance ’ objectives : to keep a high level of awareness of the brand , ideally as one of the first two in its field spontaneously named by respondents to a regular survey ( something often described in the US as ‘ share of mind ’ ) ; to maintain a high level of belief in the brand 's superiority over its main competitor on certain key attributes of the product type ; to encourage people to offer the product to their visitors . |
| 6 | No horse in history has landed the Stewards Cup , Portland Handicap and Ayr Gold Cup treble , but Lochsong is off to Scotland next week with the first two in the bag . |
| 7 | A second self expanding stent was inserted into the first stent in each case without longterm success , as obstruction occurred again after three months in both . |
| 8 | Ten lined up against her , including the first three in the previous year 's race — Forgive ‘ N Forget , Righthand Man and Earls Brig. |
| 9 | Secondly IBM found itself facing a steadily growing Japanese challenge , especially from Fujitsu , NEC and Hitachi — all three of which companies were in the first six in the world league for mainframes and for data processing overall . |