Example sentences of "[det] for the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fourth key point was that for the first two years of the programme , between April 1989 and March 1991 , we committed a budget of £24 million to the programme . |
| 2 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 3 | Yeah well , you see , we found that for the first three or four years now they 've gradually dropped off a bit , but they did used to , I mean they still come , but it |
| 4 | The Americans countered by accepting this for the first ten years , but adding an extra M per cent interest , bringing the annual figure to £40 million for the remaining fifty-two years . |
| 5 | Results for the current year were likely to show little or no improvement over those for the first six months . |
| 6 | The Salon 's founding team , which remained virtually the same for the first two years , has changed significantly . |
| 7 | When they first interviewed Sykes , on Monday this is , he told them he was staying at a cottage in the Lake District entirely on his own for the first two and a half weeks in September . |