Example sentences of "[num] [noun] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In 30 cases the first biopsy was taken using a fibreoptic endoscope .
2 By the end of 12 months the first group recorded 20 per cent lower medical claims than the other two , and the savings amounted to six times the cost of the health promotion package they had received .
3 According to Jazz head of sales and marketing Katy Turner , the appointment gives the three stations the first opportunity to sell against Capital , the UK 's largest radio station .
4 You have you fourteen days the first payment will be twenty pounds a week thereafter .
5 This passed and on 6 August the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima , killing outright some 80 000 people and exposing many thousands more to the longer-term but not less deadly effects of radiation .
6 Phase in your sunbathing gradually , starting with just one hour the first day , and increase your tanning time by perhaps an hour a day .
7 No , no , like you , like you say is any one tape the first tape you fill in it
8 But each of their small squad of 12 won at least one medal in their final count of 16 golds , 13 silvers and nine bronzes the first time this has happened .
9 Question one name the first English printer .
10 For 249 Squadron the first introduction to real action on Malta came as something of a shock .
11 But after 40 minutes the first wave of the military action ended and as dawn broke over the capital there was no sign of a ground operation .
12 In less than two hours the first shot would be hit — and the first tales of glory or misery or ‘ if only ’ would be told .
13 BNP will offer high income multiples of up to four times the first income ( which has to be that of the professional ) plus three times the second .
14 Whether it was because she knew she was my baby and did not like being with ward Sister , I shall not know , but she only gained two ounces the first week .
15 Indeed , the first Advertisements Regulation Act of 1907 antedated by two years the first Planning Act .
16 On 24 May the first batch of 1,000 Serbs had been moved from Viktring , and further lorry loads were leaving the camp during McCreery 's visit .
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