Example sentences of "[num] [noun] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you , England should have been home and clear before that , but poor Barnes , the man who had won the Cup final at Twickenham with a last-minute magical goal kick , could not get a goal from eight attempts in the first half . |
| 2 | There had been a total of eight candidates in the first round of voting on March 4 , after an agreement in December 1989 between the various political groupings to end the previous one-party system . |
| 3 | Smith , opening the innings , made 74 from only 53 deliveries in the first hour of the day , striking two sixes and 13 fours , before retiring to give someone else some practice . |
| 4 | All this was happening at a time of deep recession worsening by the day with unemployment rising to two and a half million , redundancies up by forty percent in the first four months of ninety one . |
| 5 | Philip Simmons , their only World Cup century-maker , added two more the only times he batted , smashing five sixes and 12 fours in 122 off 113 balls in the first match and two sixes and 10 fours in 104 off 139 balls in the third . |
| 6 | Edwards , a 26-year-old medical scientist , jumped 17.26 metres in the first round to move to third place on the world outdoor rankings for 1992 , behind Frank Rutherford of the Bahamas ( 17.41 metres ) and German Ralf Jaros ( 17.28 ) . |
| 7 | Plain sailing YACHTING : New Zealand beat Japan 's Nippon by one minute 43 seconds in the first of the America 's Cup challengers ' semi-finals off San Diego , California . |
| 8 | The serum aspartate aminotransferase was 30 U/l , alkaline phosphatase 200 U/l , total bilirubin 29 µmol/l , albumin 36 g/l , international normalised ratio 1.14 , PTT 33.1 s , and erythrocyte sedimentation rate 2 mm in the first hour . |
| 9 | Pons was chairman of the chemistry department , and , as noted earlier , his name appeared as co-author on over 30 papers in the first eight months of 1988 alone . |
| 10 | Miroslav Sladek , the leader of the Republicans and the only candidate , won a total of 58 out of 300 votes in the first poll and 60 in the second poll . |
| 11 | Miroslav Sladek , the leader of the Republicans and the only candidate , won a total of 58 out of 300 votes in the first poll and 60 in the second poll . |
| 12 | This set back spurred United into action and they penned Rayners Lane into their own half for long periods , forcing eight corners in the first forty minutes of the game . |
| 13 | The fact that no hemispheric difference was found with inter.stimulus intervals of less than 100 msec. in the first experiment of Moscovitch et al. |
| 14 | However a special helpline for patients , set up on 0204 390999 , received 100 calls in the first couple of hours . |
| 15 | Er , well , the extra costs was two million a year er , and at the end of the first six months in the first year we 'd , we 'd , we 'd achieved a million extra revenue , so it looks as if we 've paid for it . |
| 16 | The little Third Division side caused a sensation at Anfield a fortnight ago by storming into a 3-0 lead in the first leg of their Coca-Cola Cup tie . |
| 17 | COLCHESTER confirmed their position as favourites to win the Vauxhall FA Trophy when they took a 3–0 lead in the first leg of their semi-final with Conference rivals Macclesfield , at Layer Road on Saturday , writes Peter Ernest . |
| 18 | Although Stich lost a 3–0 lead in the first set , he broke Becker again when he forced him to net a forehand volley . |
| 19 | He had spent nearly all of his forty-eight years in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , and during that time he had witnessed literally thousands of encounters with people from the Other Side . |
| 20 | It had over 20 performances in Vienna alone , and brought Mozart 1,200 florins in the first two days . |
| 21 | Data were available for 215 patients in the first period , and 200 in the second . |
| 22 | Colchester only scored six points in the first set but held off the Nomads for more than 27 minutes thanks to solid defence . |
| 23 | Laboratory results showed an increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate of 44 mm in the first hour , a raised C reactive protein value of 49 mg/l . |
| 24 | Full-time students are required to pass at least 7 modules in the first year of Stage II , their second year , to satisfy the requirements of a full-time year of study . |
| 25 | THE Chicago Cubs scored six runs in the first inning as they beat the San Francisco Giants 9-5 at Wrigley Field on Thursday to level the National League championship series at 1-1 . |
| 26 | A posthumous collection , Marlborough and Other Poems , was published in 1916 and went into six editions in the first year . |
| 27 | So if in if inflation went up say seven or eight percent in the first year , you 're looking at prices in double figures . |
| 28 | Board results of the strongest club match played this year : GM Hubner 1–0 GM Christiansen ; GM Yusupov 1–0 GM Lutz ; GM Ribli DRAW GM Hort ; GM Hertneck DRAW GM Vaganian ; GM Bonsch 0–1 GM Hickl ; GM Bischoff 1–0 GM Knaak ; IM Stangl 0–1 GM Vogt ; IM Schlosser DRAW IM Jackelen ; 4.5–3.5 England 's strongest league , the London League , was effectively decided on Tuesday when King 's Head , based at the pub of the same name in Moscow Road , Bayswater , achieved a 5–2 lead in the first session of play against Wood Green . |
| 29 | Tobacco sales were down 7.6 percent in the first three months of this year compared with the same period last year and 9.6 percent in the second three months . |
| 30 | He won that actually on appeal because he said he needed to raise the funds for a project he 'd got in mind and they allowed him twenty eight days in the first year , he now carries on fourteen days without planning permission every year , but give him credit he does run it very well , er and you can not fault him , but we in our area do actually issue licences , you can not have a car boot sale or market stall without a licence and I personally have run the charity markets in er the village high street and got a licence at the cost of a pound . |