Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeltsin announced at the meeting in Minsk on Dec. 30 that the first channel of Central Television would be given over to the Commonwealth , the second would be Russian , the third would be Moscow Television and the fourth would be an educational channel . |
| 2 | Also important is the limited availability of alternative sources for retailer 2 once the first agreement is signed . |
| 3 | This seems to indicate that after a fairly steady climb and a certain standstill in the late 1880s , the numbers really took off in the late 1890s and the first decade of the twentieth century . |
| 4 | The sense of moral crisis and social discontinuity reflected here was deeply characteristic of late Victorian and Edwardian society , and from the late 1890s until the First World War there was a flood of such accusations against the youth . |
| 5 | Lam exhibitions have been mounted this month at The Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid ( until 14 December and then travelling to the Fundació Miró in Barcelona , 21 January–28 March , 1993 ) , the Villa Medici in Rome , the home of the French Academy ( until 24 January 1993 and the first show of the artist 's work in Italy ) and in New York . |
| 6 | Mobbs started work on the project in January 1971 ; in May 1972 the proposal was sent to the CNAA ; it was approved after a one-day visit in November 1972 and the first intake arrived in the autumn of 1973 . |
| 7 | William lived on for a further 16 years after that , into the reign of George V and the First World War . |
| 8 | Canadian producers had faced higher interest rates than those of their US competitors and higher unit labour costs , which rose 15 per cent between 1985 and the first quarter of 1989 , compared with only 1 per cent in the USA for the same period . |
| 9 | Whereas it was hoped that this would be brought to the Council by the end of November , it may now be into 1993 before the first draft is presented to the Planning and Development Committee . |
| 10 | The writings of Ada Nield Chew , a working-class feminist who , between 1894 and the First World War , wrote many newspaper articles on women 's issues and was hostile to the idea of family allowances , have recently been collected together in Ada Nield Chew : The Life and Writings of a Working Woman ( 1982 ) . |
| 11 | We had moved into the new factory in June 1979 and the first effect of our association with GEC was an input of capital to purchase badly needed equipment . |
| 12 | Adam Partridge , who 's nineteen and a first year Classics student at Christchurch College , supplied more than four thousand pounds worth of cannabis to his friends . |
| 13 | It announced a 27 p.c. fall in profits to £28.4m for 1991 but the first quarter of 1992 showed a ‘ significant recovery ’ . |
| 14 | No bomb was found after a search of the ground with tracker dogs and when the game eventually started over a hour late , both teams , level at 1–1 after the first leg went at each other in an explosive start . |
| 15 | In E.coli or halophilic archaea Halobacterium cutirubrum , leader sequence before the 16S rRNA coding region can base-pair with sequence lying between 16S and the first spacer tRNA . |
| 16 | The quota was 8,907 and the first count gave Paisley 14,533 votes , a surplus of 5,626 . |
| 17 | It was in 1913 that the first reference is made to the Luker family , proprietors of the Henley Standard , when on October 31st , Charles Luker was beaten on the 21st hole in the Ladies ' Cup semi-final . |
| 18 | The Chinese Eastern railway was completed in 1904 , and the Amur railway was developed between 1908 and the First World War . |
| 19 | IBM Personal Systems Business Unit Europe/Middle East/Africa says it had record volume of sales in the first quarter of this year , and points to Dataquest figures suggesting that it outshipped its nearest competitor by 66% during the last quarter of 1992 and the first quarter of 1993 — gaining 4% in market share over the previous six months ; the company also said it reorganised its manufacturing and distribution operations at its Greenock , Scotland , plant , cutting distribution costs for its ValuePoint and ThinkPad brands by more than 65% , cutting its inventory by 17% since the end of 1992 ; this magnitude of savings will also be realised for the PS/2 and PS/1 lines this year . |
| 20 | The latest GDP numbers implicitly assume that Britain 's total net trade deteriorated between the fourth quarter of 1992 and the first quarter of this year . |
| 21 | Overall , there was a fractional increase between the last three months of 1992 and the first quarter of this year , the second marginal quarterly rise in succession . |
| 22 | It 's based on Windows 3.0 and the first implementation supports the Informix relational database running on Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcsystems , NCR Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co HP 9000 , IBM Corp RS/6000 and Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix servers . |
| 23 | It was written during the latter part of 1913 and the first half of 1914 and for part of that time the author was travelling in Austria . |
| 24 | Is not it higher today than throughout the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s ? |
| 25 | RENFE 's deficit , for reasons discussed in other chapters , exploded during the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s . |
| 26 | And hence the feeling in nineteen fourteen when the first world war broke out that it would er all be over by Christmas . |
| 27 | He was educated at the Perse School , Cambridge , and won a scholarship to Pembroke College , Cambridge , where he received a first class in part i of the English tripos in 1928 and a first class with distinction in part ii in 1929 . |
| 28 | Clause 3.2 and the first part of cl 3.3 of Precedent 2 cover the same principles , but , as would obviously be preferred by the buyer , in cl 3.3 the procedures are more flexible , and the buyer 's rights are somewhat greater . |
| 29 | Base rate was on Sept. 22 further reduced to 9 per cent ( its lowest level since mid-1988 and the first time since 1981 that it stood below the German Lombard rate ) . |
| 30 | The collapse of the IMF system in March 1973 and the first oil price shock of 1973 – 74 resulted in the EC member countries abandoning the implementation of the Werner Plan . |