Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this in mind , Botham chose to field first , only for Greenidge and Haynes to put on 168 for the first wicket . |
| 2 | Sheep entries set a new record , and topped 500 for the first time . |
| 3 | That figure multiplied by eight for the first period gave a total of two hundred and sixty eight thousand two hundred and twenty four pounds . |
| 4 | And of course Oxford supporters do n't need reminding that last season they led Fulham 1-0 after the first leg and they lost 5-3 at home . |
| 5 | In reply , Boycott and Brearley put on no less than 129 for the first wicket — jolly good in a Test , but they took thirty-eight overs about it , with Boycott not getting into double figures until the seventeenth over . |
| 6 | When Haynes and Best put on 113 for the first wicket it all became academic , the main interest being whether Best would get his hundred . |
| 7 | Foster 's Essex partner Mark Ilott omitted from England 's 12 for the First Test , should make his debut . |
| 8 | The beachfront villa in Beirut where Coleman lived in 1985 during the first DIA undercover assignment . |
| 9 | On visiting Hawes Water in 1801 for the first time , Wm . |
| 10 | Also , as a means of diffusing his own publications , this time through advertisement , he was among the backers in 1788 of the first evening daily , the Star and Evening Advertiser ; it created a precedent in offering a copy service to others . |
| 11 | The plan is for the theatre to open in 1993 with the first season of Shakespeare plays . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Over the last five years , the number of centres entering candidates for National Certificate has grown steadily and , over the same period , the number of modules in the catalogue has risen from around 700 in the first year of operation to around 2500 this year . |
| 14 | From an initial 700 in the first season , bookings rose rapidly to 26,000 by 1931 . |
| 15 | Rangers , precariously ahead 2-1 from the first leg , conceded four corners in 12 frenetic minutes . |
| 16 | Fiji 's team was a second strength team but they were still too good , running away 22–10 victors over Australia Green after trailing 10–0 in the first half . |
| 17 | ICI will be able to stop manufacturing CFCs 11 and 12 in the first quarter of next year , having secured supplies for its remaining customers through a deal with Akzo . |
| 18 | A John Thomas hat-trick enabled Albion to take the aggregate score to six apiece with a 5-3 win at Bradford , while Palace won 3-2 having lost 2-1 in the first leg of their clash with second division basement dwellers , Leicester City . |
| 19 | Dragon Pallets ( Ian Fullerton , Dave Pearce ) won 2-1 in the first division against Light of India and Wing Half ( John Farrell , Ritchie Martin ) defeated MSC Eastham 2-0 . |
| 20 | GREAT BRITAIN 'S team of Mark Petchey and Chris Wilkinson yesterday beat Czechoslovakia 2-1 in the first round of the European men 's team tennis championships in Trieste , Italy . |
| 21 | Of the known opioid users , 601 ( 77 per cent ) were male , which is a male to female ratio of 3.3:1-compared with 3.9:1 in the first survey ( see Table 3.4 ) . |
| 22 | Student numbers have grown from 50,000 in the first year of operation to nearly 190,000 in session 1988–89 . |
| 23 | There had been in the brilliantly brave ace at 5–6 in the first set tie break , which denied Sampras the set point he had earned with an ace of his own . |
| 24 | A good victory was secured at Allander , winning by 4 goals to 2 in the first league match in November . |
| 25 | The top layer was built , that you saw in the photograph , was built later , so 31 and 32 had two rooms , erm on the ground floor , and 2 on the first floor , 33 , which was smaller , but it does have a fair sized room , and another upstairs , and then the very small one is 34 . |
| 26 | After being pegged at 4–4 following the first frame of the evening session , Hendry raised his game to collect the £40,000 first prize — and become Masters champion for the first time . |
| 27 | On page 306 of the first volume ( Remington & Co. , London , 1893 , no translator credited ) Du Camp describes in great detail the woman on whom Emma Bovary was based . |
| 28 | By the end of her first term in office the Australian War Cry was reporting that all but one of the forty nine students at the training college had passed their final exam and that twenty eight of the first year students had become Salvationists and eight had applied to be officers . |
| 29 | By the time the Corporation 's new cars were ready for delivery , Penge depôt in Oak Grove Road was sufficiently advanced for the cars to be stored there , together with the remaining eight of the first batch . |
| 30 | He knew the power and the reality of the Holy Spirit in the church of his day , when he wrote in the 60s of the first century . |