Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 680 homes were sold in January , rising to 750 for the first three weeks of this month . |
| 2 | That figure is remarkable when compared to just 87,000 during the first six months of last year . |
| 3 | The fact that O'Keeffe was so well-known in her time makes it even more astonishing that we have had to wait until 1993 for the first major European show of her work . |
| 4 | The show illustrates in two large sections the period from the election in 1024 of the first Salien king , Konrad II , to the death in 1125 of his great-grandson Emperor Heinrich V. The first , introduced by historical maps of the period , illustrates the everyday life and working environment of people of different social strata . |
| 5 | On a collision course are Onslow 's — who started the fleet sailing in 1985 with the first specialised sale — and Christie 's South Kensington . |
| 6 | APR 1993 At the first TOP Surgery Allan Paterson met team leaders to find out first hand the progress of their teams . |
| 7 | Brunel would have nothing steeper than 1 in 660 for the first eighty-five miles out of Paddington ; Robert Stephenson planned the London and Birmingham Railway with no gradient steeper than 1 in 330 ( except the first rise from Euston to Camden ) ; and Locke nothing steeper than 1 in 250 on the difficult London and Southampton line . |
| 8 | West Indies soon lost Haynes , but Richards , on his home ground , and Greenidge set off at an explosive pace with 45 off the first seven overs . |
| 9 | Sotheby 's paid dearly for this error of judgment with no less than six of the first nine lots in its evening sale failing to find buyers . |
| 10 | Nineteen of the first sixty three . |
| 11 | Most of the illustrations were drawn by Lancake ( forty-eight of the first hundred ) , J. S. Miller both drew and engraved a considerable number , while Mynde and Jeffreys appear most frequently amongst engravers . |
| 12 | The high point of his BBC career was the opening in 1929 of the first dual transmitter high-power section in Brookmans Park , near London . |
| 13 | After only getting 7 points compared to my target of 10 from the first 6 games , the lads have come back with 14 from the next 6 . |
| 14 | Goran Hadzic , leader of the Serbian enclave of Western Slavonia , was elected by 230 votes with six abstentions as Babic 's replacement in Borovo Selo on Feb. 26 at the first joint session of the assemblies of Serbian Krajina , the Autonomous Region of Western Slavonia , and the Serbian Region of Slavonia , Baranja and Western Srem . |
| 15 | By 1882 , Edison 's system of generating power in a central power station , changed industrial methods almost as much as steam had brought about the industrial revolution , and by 1885 the first internal combustion driven machine had appeared , to be followed in 1894 by the first recognisable motorcar . |
| 16 | It was arranged that Hetty would stay on in the shop for a while , and Sarah would work from ten o'clock until three for the first few weeks . |
| 17 | There 's a waiting list of three after the first ten and I do n't see why you should n't persuade Ryan to let you be No. 4 on that . |
| 18 | Three of the first four development launches were successful , and Ariane was declared qualified for operational service . |
| 19 | He finished on the rostrum in three of the first four GPs ( ignition failure put him out of the fourth ) and he beat John Kocinski in stunning style to win the fifth GP of the season at the Nurburgring . |
| 20 | I have read three of the first four issues and find it thoroughly enjoyable with lots of practical help and practical help is what I require . |
| 21 | Hannon saddled three of the first four home in the Kennett Maiden , and Reprehend , at 14–1 , was the least fancied of his trio . |
| 22 | Three of the first five runs showed ratios between 1.5 and 2 , implying excess neutrons of between 50 and 100 per cent . |
| 23 | Reports said that they would number 90,000-100,000 in the first two years . |
| 24 | The charge will be 0 for the first 6 months that a property is empty . |
| 25 | Fourteen of the first twenty mosaics are from town sites ( eighteen if nos. 21-24 are included ) . |
| 26 | This was more to the Swedes ' liking , taking 5 of the first 8 places , including the top 3 . |
| 27 | The first self-service store opened in Croydon in 1952 with the first edge-of-town store appearing in 1972 . |
| 28 | Such intervention was given its most potent fillip in July 1916 with the first National Conference on Old Age Pensions ( NCOAP ) . |
| 29 | Over the operational period the Teacher Placement Service has increased the levels of activity from an estimated 1,900 teachers into industry in 1989 to in excess of 20,000 in the first two years . |
| 30 | The Human Rights Protection Party ( HRPP ) , led by Prime Minister Tofilau Eti Alesana , was returned to power on April 5 in the first general election under the country 's recently introduced universal adult suffrage . |