Example sentences of "[num] [adj] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Case D , although ranked 3 , earns 7000 more in the first 2 years than case C , which is ranked 1 . |
| 3 | Case D , although ranked 3 , earns 7000 more in the first 2 years than case C , which is ranked 1 . |
| 4 | In Britain the biggest box-office hit was Batman Returns with Pounds 2.77 million in the first three days . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They raised a total of 6.9 billion in 1991 and 4.5 billion in the first half of 1992 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The ceremonial ( wedding ) through which the husband and the wife are put into legally enforceable contractual relations with one another in the first place . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Plans for the service , which will cost about US$ 1 million in the first year , have been delayed by lack of funds . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It 'll save us a hundred thousand in the first year . |
| 16 | A hundred thousand in the first year and three hundred thousand in the second and subsequent years . |
| 17 | Newell had put through his own goal to put Southampton level at two one in the first half . |
| 18 | The initial budget for the current year was £13 million , which was increased to £20 million to take account of the £7 million underspent in the first two years . |
| 19 | So the budget fixed for the current year was £20 million and the £7 million underspent in the first two years of the scheme did not go back to the Treasury — it was not lost to computerisation — but was committed to the further development of GP computerisation . |
| 20 | That five thousand per annum figure is a guaranteed figure , we could in fact print seven thousand in the first year if they wanted . |