Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latest figures show that during the first two months of this year more than 14,000 took up the Company 's invitation to find out more about nuclear power by visiting Sellafield . |
| 2 | These satellites and more recent balloon and rocket flights show that in the first six years of the 1970s the Sun 's radiation had increased by 0.2 per cent . |
| 3 | The statistics summarised in Table 3.8 show that in the first four months of 1985 , the number of people entering unemployment averaged 347,525 and the number leaving averaged 338,750 against a total unemployment figure of just over 3 m . |
| 4 | Hope that for the first time in your life you 'll discover trust within yourself for another human being . ’ |
| 5 | Yes we know that from the first of April ninety-five it will probably no longer be the responsibility of the county council to set a budget for the Wiltshire police authority . |
| 6 | Thank you chairman , I , I second er 's motion , erm trying to be not political about this I got some figures from the er county council which indicate that from the first of April ninety-two to the thirty-first of December ninety-two eighty-six members attended committee meetings of which they were not members . |
| 7 | I remember that at the first European Council which my right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley and I attended together , in Stuttgart , it was reaffirmed as a clear objective . |
| 8 | We shall denote any state by the letter G. Suppose that in the first phase of a learning cycle , while its inputs are the desired settings Sk , each state G occurs with frequency P(G) . |
| 9 | Mindful again of the difficulties of testing the significance of the data statistically , we note that in the first scene Anderson only allocates a turn clearly to McKendrick six times out of 43 turns ( 14 per cent ) . |
| 10 | We find that in the first month or so after the eruption , the large amount of SO 2 injected into the tropical atmosphere catalyses mid-stratospheric ozone production . |
| 11 | Indeed , City analysts reckon that in the first six months of 1992 listed companies ' dividends only increased by 2% as companies tried to improve their balance sheets and build up dividend cover . |
| 12 | Notes by the Rector about his establishments survive and we learn that in the first year of the new Sunday School there were 45 male and 32 female attendees . |