Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the first [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hamilton took a 2 at the first and then stole a single . |
| 2 | Colts ’ XI at Portsmouth , losing 3–0 to the first and second year apprentices from league clubs . |
| 3 | It was sold at Sotheby 's in 1946 in the first and greatest post-war Phillips sale for £900 . |
| 4 | King drew first blood when he took the opening set 7-5 , thanks mainly to counts of 3 on the first and third ends , but Corsie 's reply was immediate : a 7-1 second-set triumph in five ends . |
| 5 | King drew first blood when he took the opening set 7-5 , thanks mainly to counts of 3 on the first and third ends , but Corsie 's reply was immediate : a 7-1 second-set triumph in five ends . |
| 6 | The Italian ( GlSSI ) study was one of the first where treatment was administered soon after the onset of symptoms to patients suspected of having an acute myocardial infarction . " |
| 7 | But Tich was always happy in his way , and curiously one of his merriest nights was when he and the The Shepton Mallet pop festival was one of the first and biggest outdoor pop concerts , a drug-raddled campsite without tents , populated by beaded flower children in kaftans and body paint who had hitch-hiked west in their tens of thousands . |
| 8 | Boyle refers to him again and again , ‘ one of the first and greatest experimental philosophers of our age ’ . |
| 9 | Bolton was one of the first and chief centres of the cotton trade . |
| 10 | Kenrick Wynne-Jones set up one of the first and best organised of them in Newcastle Wynne-Jones 's work for the Labour Party , added to his success as a chemist , made him a clear choice as a working member of the House of Lords . |
| 11 | One of the first and most important results of this change of emphasis was the work done by the joint Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Manchester in the mid-1960s . |
| 12 | Micrografx Inc , one of the first and most prominent companies to endorse IBM Corp 's OS/2 2.0 operating system , is backing off developing OS/2 applications , US PC Week reports : ‘ There 's no demand for OS/2 applications , ’ said Paul Grayson , chief executive of the Richardson , Texas , company — ‘ We do n't see the rationale for making additional investments in OS/2 applications when there 's no apparent demand for the ones on the market . ’ |
| 13 | Among the Surrealists one of the first and one of the least known was Pierre Roy . |
| 14 | Estée Lauder 's latest launch , Time-Zone , looks set to continue this preoccupation with dry skin as one of the first and most uncomfortable signs of an ageing complexion . |
| 15 | When war broke out in South Africa MacBride was one of the first and most prominent members of the Irish Brigade which fought for the Boer republics , and at Ladysmith , Colenso , and elsewhere he proved himself to be a brave and resourceful soldier . |
| 16 | One of the first and most dramatic applications of rational expectations was to a flexible-price version of Friedman 's ( 1968 ) natural rate hypothesis . |