Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fourth key point was that for the first two years of the programme , between April 1989 and March 1991 , we committed a budget of £24 million to the programme . |
| 2 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 3 | Yeah well , you see , we found that for the first three or four years now they 've gradually dropped off a bit , but they did used to , I mean they still come , but it |
| 4 | The Americans countered by accepting this for the first ten years , but adding an extra M per cent interest , bringing the annual figure to £40 million for the remaining fifty-two years . |
| 5 | France , Germany and several other members , stressing its ( more active ) peacemaking potential , saw this as the first major concrete step towards developing the WEU as the " defence component of the European union " as outlined in the Maastricht treaty [ see p. 38658 ] . |
| 6 | As half of the first full-time two man drug squad in the North-East of England , I was tasked with defining and dealing with the new social aberration of ‘ flower power ’ , ‘ the counter culture ’ , and the ‘ psychedelic trip ’ . |
| 7 | Bull has already revealed details of its Integrated Systems Management effort , based around the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Management Environment , and is now working on some of the first practical applications to run on top . |
| 8 | Some of the first newly-planned settlements were established by Victorian industrialists themselves , but a long process of government legislation culminated in the passing , between 1945 and 1950 , of comprehensive Town and Country Planning legislation , including provision for New Towns and National Parks but also a characteristically negative policy toward the expansion of cities themselves . |
| 9 | With a dry wit and an infectious Brooklyn drawl , Karen , as part of the Flatbush-based Soulboys group of club-runners , was responsible for some of the first illegal parties in New York , as well as having the much-coveted job of doorperson at various Manhattan clubs . |
| 10 | Both were headed by Prof. R.B. Le Page , who had produced some of the first linguistic studies of Jamaican Creole about twenty years previously ( Le Page 1961 ; Le Page and De Camp 1960 ; Cassidy and Le Page 1980 , originally published 1967 ) . |
| 11 | He should admit that his efforts have supplied few of the first 999 floors . |
| 12 | Société Générale , one of the country 's biggest banks , had to raise provisions against dud loans by more than half in the first six months of 1990 . |
| 13 | Yet one study showed that about one in five of all premarital pregnancies occur in the first month of a sexual relationship , and half within the first six months . |
| 14 | But the inter-relation of this to the first five public relations functions is sometimes overlooked by marketing departments in their desire to measure brand sales achievement directly to brand public relations tactical results . |
| 15 | This exasperating weekday practice prevents us seeing at least 10 minutes of each of the first two sessions of paly . |
| 16 | The in-betweens , a group of five fields ( Cumberland , Durham , Derbyshire , Lancashire — or Northwest — and Northumberland ) which provided the 55 per cent vote at each of the first two ballots but on average produced only 42 per cent support for the strike call across the other four . |
| 17 | There was a daughter by each of the first two marriages . |
| 18 | The participants had decided to walk 20km on each of the first two days and finish by walking 10km on the last day . |
| 19 | Additionally , a further ‘ outside ’ course is taken in each of the first two years . |
| 20 | Geology comprises one third of the curriculum in each of the first two years of study . |
| 21 | During each of the first two years after diagnosis , gastrointestinal symptoms recorded on standardised forms were classified as quiescent , mild , moderate , or severe as defined in Table I. For all 100 patients , the influence of anatomical localisation of disease , sex , severity of gastrointestinal symptoms , duration of daily prednisone use , and of nutritional intervention on the height velocities during each of the first two years were analysed by multiple regression analysis . |
| 22 | During each of the first two years after diagnosis , gastrointestinal symptoms recorded on standardised forms were classified as quiescent , mild , moderate , or severe as defined in Table I. For all 100 patients , the influence of anatomical localisation of disease , sex , severity of gastrointestinal symptoms , duration of daily prednisone use , and of nutritional intervention on the height velocities during each of the first two years were analysed by multiple regression analysis . |
| 23 | Severity of gastrointestinal had the most pronounced influence on linear growth velocity during each of the first two years of follow up . |
| 24 | McCann came from behind to take each of the first two sets before Robertson began to find his touch . |
| 25 | For each of the first eight weeks there is a weekly plan that will touch on a different aspect of your diet . |
| 26 | The tables below show the possible cash values of various premium levels for this 10 year endowment plan at the end of each of the first 5 years . |
| 27 | During the period of massive repression in 1980 , rural drop-out rates were 40 to 50 per cent in each of the first six grades and 20 to 30 per cent in urban schools . |
| 28 | The table below , supplied by GRE , shows surrender values at the end of each of the first five years of the policy . |
| 29 | Terence believes that every hairdresser should have two pairs of scissors , if they are truly professional , and is offering a free pair to each of the first five orders received from Hairflair readers . |
| 30 | But there are at least four levels of understanding clearly discernible in a biblical view of faith and each of the first four categories of doubt runs parallel to one of these levels . |