Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new trolleybus service was numbered 654 and for the first time there was a through service crossing the main road at West Croydon . |
| 2 | Since labour supply did not increase to meet this demand , the growth of civilian employment was only marginally higher in the late sixties and early seventies than in the first half of the sixties ( table 11.2 ) . |
| 3 | Certainly he played extremely well in that position after Peter Wall was injured for most of 1972–73 and in the first half of 1973–74 , and it was from that position that he captained the Palace side . |
| 4 | It saw a slight recovery of demand for its products by the end of 1992 and during the first months of 1993 . |
| 5 | One sometimes gets the impression that IBM Corp is more solicitous over the needs of its Stamford , Connecticut-based IBM Credit Corp subsidiary than it is over its own , and yesterday , in the wake of the parent 's big $285m loss , IBM Credit was able to announce that profits actually rose 0.3% at $58.3m ; the return on average equity was 20.2% , compared with 21.3% in the first quarter of 1992 and in the first three months of 1993 , IBM Credit originated financing for $1,700m of equipment , software and services for IBM 's customers and distribution channels , down 22% on the figure for the first quarter 1992 — financing for end users decreased by 45% to $600m while financing for distribution channels decreased by 1% to $1,100 , the company noted . |
| 6 | After its vast spending spree on new factories at the tail end of the 1970s and in the first five years of the 1980s , IBM scared the pants off its competitors by stressing that it was by far the lowest-cost manufacturer in the industry . |
| 7 | All the intercepts are significantly greater than zero except for the first sub-period when it is significantly lower than zero . |
| 8 | Behind it lay the Anglo-American fusion that had powered the paper in 1966 and through the first eighteen months . |
| 9 | Andrew Beattie was allowed a visit by his wife for a few minutes around half-past one and for the first time he learned that no strike organisers had been arrested other than in the Rathcoole district . |
| 10 | The note to which I refer of six er page six seven five reads as follows , the words omitted from sub-sections one , four and five and the whole of sub-section three were repealed and sub-section six was substituted by the Local Government Act nineteen seventy two , sections one hundred and ninety-six one two , two hundred and seventy-two one , Schedule thirty , the words in square brackets in sub-section one and in the first pair of square brackets in sub-section two , were substituted and the words omitted from para two B , paragraph two B and the whole of paragraph two C , both of which had been inserted by the Local Government Act nineteen seventy two , section two hundred and seventeen , schedule twenty- seven , part two , paragraph eighteen were repealed . |
| 11 | The Gongsters are complete for the 3 years 48–51 except for the first two issues . |
| 12 | His two goals helped Vale beat local rivals Stoke for the first time since 1956 and for the first time ever in the FA Cup . |
| 13 | The hitherto buoyant Taiwan stock exchange suffered an unprecedented decline during 1989 and in the first half of 1990 . |
| 14 | After being defeated by Botvinnik on a number of occasions — notably at the great Avro Tournament of 1938 and at the first post war tournament held to find a successor to the late Alekhine — he finally got his revenge with a triumphal victory over the Soviet champion in the USSR . |
| 15 | This was held on 16 February 1936 and for the first time in the history of the Second Republic involved an evenly matched contest between large , cohesive left- and right-wing alliances ; the Radical Party virtually disappeared as a significant force , leaving the political centre effectively unrepresented . |