Example sentences of "[num] [noun] on the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifty mls on the first day and then 40 , 30 , 20 , 10 . |
| 2 | The Ipswich number one scored 12 points on the first day , 14 on the second and 11 on the third . |
| 3 | At a time when the market is morose and les affaires difficiles , he had sold 12 drawings on the first day of the second Collectors ' Drawings fair in Paris . |
| 4 | The story of his own life attracted almost 500 visitors on the first day . |
| 5 | There were six bedrooms on the first floor and a further two in a small staff flat above , and from every window a different view of the adjacent hills and woods . |
| 6 | In spite of only thirteen miles on the first day , nine on the second , a day 's rest at Adrar , and another here at Reggane , the average was still eighteen . |
| 7 | The house was bounded on its Culver Street frontage by Invicta Terrace — a row of thirteen identical dwellings having two rooms and a scullery downstairs and three bedrooms on the first floor , though none of the rooms were of any size . |
| 8 | There were three avalanches on the first weekend of skiing , not on the skiing area itself but in adjacent coires . |
| 9 | Cornelius observed that of the twenty-seven windows on the first floor , eight were open , with their blinds up , eight were closed with their blinds down , nine were closed , with their blinds up , one was open with its blind down and one was closed , had its blind halfway up and the light on . |
| 10 | Wales , largely batting without a great deal of distinction , were all out for 129 in 54.1 overs , trailing by 73 runs on the first innings . |
| 11 | ft was already 0900 hours on the first day of the Nijmegen Marches when B Squadron crawled out of their sacks and drifted towards the ablutions . |
| 12 | The appointments are for a fixed term of 12–18 months on the first instance . |
| 13 | For example , on a day with a 3000 foot cloud base , climb to 2500 feet on the first climb , then fly off leaving that thermal , using the airbrakes if necessary to come down to try to find another one at 2000 feet . |
| 14 | She put one foot on the first step . |
| 15 | So what you 've got there is a mass of you 've got six twelve words on the first circle and then you 've got twenty four words on the outer circle are you gon na dump all that information on to the audience to try and persuade them of your objective ? |
| 16 | Four of us were jammed in one compartment on the first leg of my journey — a train full of soldiers bound from the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator to Irkutsk , described as the Paris of Siberia , some 36 hours away . |
| 17 | The cellar I have at least seen , and been in occasionally ; I know all the rooms on the ground floor and the second ; the loft is my domain entirely and home of the Wasp Factory , no less ; but that one room on the first floor I do n't know , I have never even seen inside . |
| 18 | The five quartets on the first CD ( K155–9 ) are in three movements , the others in four . |
| 19 | After his return to the ward Mr Reynolds ' temperature rose slowly until it reached 37 C. On the first post-operative morning his temperature was above normal limits ( 37.8 C ) . |
| 20 | Blandine de Bayser , who sold nine drawings on the first night , had a delicate portrait of a woman attributed to the 17th century painter Franois Quesnel at £10,000 , and a fine Tiepolo of the Holy family from the Orloff collection at £90,000 . |
| 21 | The second XB-70 ( 62–207 , tail number 20207 ) flew on July 17 , 1965 , with many of the ‘ bugs ’ that plagued the first example ironed-out and exceeded Mach 1.4 at 42,000 feet on the first flight . |
| 22 | The market value of the new ordinary shares issued under the Enhanced Scrip Dividend Offer was 462.5 pence on the first day of dealings in such shares ( 28th July 1993 ) . |
| 23 | Dickson duly complied with their wishes with an appalling 1–4 record on the first day . |
| 24 | He set off on 15 November on the first leg of a two month expedition thumbing his way across France , Algeria and Niger . |
| 25 | IF THE TRAUMA and problems involving the Great Warbirds Air Display ( GWAD ) from its established site at West Malling in Kent to Wroughton in Wiltshire were not enough , Elly Sallingboe , her airshow team and all the pilots involved in the show had to contend with low cloud , torrential rain and wind that gusted up to 65 knots on the first day of the show . |
| 26 | The main building has a dining-room , kitchen , TV-lounge and reading-room on the ground floor , and a lecture theatre , two seminar rooms , bursar 's flat and two toilets on the first floor . |
| 27 | Shares have hit their highest levels in two months on the first trading day since Britain joined the European Exchange Mechanism . |
| 28 | Faldo won the US Masters in April by holing a 25ft putt on the second extra hole to beat Scott Hoch , who had missed from inside two feet on the first . |
| 29 | But his official estimates of the effects of a 2,500-megaton attack were 36 million deaths on the first day and 72 million by the 60th day , without reckoning on the effects of a breakdown of organized services . |
| 30 | They have two slits on the first pair of thighs which lead to deep pockets . |