Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Between 30 October 1984 and 9 January 1985 each of the first four plaintiffs entered into a mortgage debenture charging its assets to secure repayment of moneys advanced to it by the first defendant , which was then known as Johnson Matthey Bankers Ltd . |
| 2 | When Henry V landed for the first time on French soil nearly forty years later , it was soon put beyond doubt that in his artillery he possessed a potential match-winner . |
| 3 | By 1927–8 many of the first generation of intellectuals had already left , disillusioned by increasingly sectarian politics and rigorously disciplined organisational structures . |
| 4 | According to one estimate , these abuses and the ravages of European diseases and starvation reduced the indigenous population of the Americas from 100 to 10 million in the first century of conquest . |
| 5 | Very few early umbrellas survive but the Museums have about three dateable to the first half of the 19th century . |
| 6 | That brings it down to a hundred and ninety six for the first year . |
| 7 | Case D , although ranked 3 , earns 7000 more in the first 2 years than case C , which is ranked 1 . |
| 8 | Case D , although ranked 3 , earns 7000 more in the first 2 years than case C , which is ranked 1 . |
| 9 | In Britain the biggest box-office hit was Batman Returns with Pounds 2.77 million in the first three days . |
| 10 | As unemployment climbed above three million for the first time in six years , the latest figures showed our region has been hard hit by the recession . |
| 11 | Again , I remember a great many rehearsals , sixty or seventy each for the first performances of the Bach or the Beethoven . |
| 12 | CHRIS WILKINSON gave both himself and Jeremy Bates a massive pre-Wimbledon lift when he beat Argentinian left-hander Javier Frana 7–5 6–4 in the first round of the Direct Line Insurance Manchester Open at Didsbury . |
| 13 | DEVON youngster Lucie Ahl recorded her best-ever victory after beating American Patti O'Reilly 7–5 6–2 in the first round of the Wimbledon qualifying tournament at Roehampton . |
| 14 | Stephen Grey at the helm of MV293 at Duxford , August 14 , 1992 ready for the first flight . |
| 15 | They raised a total of 6.9 billion in 1991 and 4.5 billion in the first half of 1992 . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the revolt of 830 had transformed Charles 's prospects : the 831 draft-project for the first time gave him hopes of a share of the heartlands of Francia itself . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the institute has increased its prediction for unemployment , which it now thinks will peak at 3.2 million in the first quarter of 1994 . |
| 18 | The first letter of the word is stored simply as one of the rightmost 26 bits out of the 32 available in the first long integer . |
| 19 | The children turned to face one another for the first time since the pastor had started to tell the story of the massacre . |
| 20 | The ceremonial ( wedding ) through which the husband and the wife are put into legally enforceable contractual relations with one another in the first place . |
| 21 | But do n't remem do n't forget that you 've each got an allowance of five thousand eight hundred , so something jointly owned , you 've actually got a double allowance , and you get that allowance year , so if you 've got say an er a liability for shares of ten thousand pounds , let's say , that 's your capital gains calculated liability , you can do five thousand in the first year , and five thousand in the second year , and that will keep you below your capital gains tax allowance . |
| 22 | BACK in 1987 one of the first tentative recognitions of AIDS in the arts world , a benefit concert called ‘ Music for Life ’ , was held at Carnegie Hall in New York . |
| 23 | During his four years in office the Association 'S branches numbered more than one hundred for the first time , and he was constantly visiting them and planning new ones . |
| 24 | I do n't think even in our wildest dreams we managed to spend an extra five million in the first few weeks of this council , I remember a couple of million going into schools and few hundred thousand for voluntary organizations , and er , and old people 's homes . |
| 25 | Plans for the service , which will cost about US$ 1 million in the first year , have been delayed by lack of funds . |
| 26 | Motorway bollards were due to be removed at one thirty for the first customers to stream in . |
| 27 | The lease was to run for 21 years yielding a Royalty of one ninth in the first three years ; an eighth during the next three , and a seventh part or dish for the remainder of the term . |
| 28 | Cut it into twelve so they get one twelfth from the first one . |
| 29 | By the end of her first term in office the Australian War Cry was reporting that all but one of the forty nine students at the training college had passed their final exam and that twenty eight of the first year students had become Salvationists and eight had applied to be officers . |
| 30 | For this care I award forty thousand pounds per year and take as a multiplier the figure three to give a sum of one hundred and twenty thousand for the first period . |