Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the first [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship . |
| 3 | To make the needle fit the groove , the disc contained abrasive material , so the tip would be ground down during the first two or three revolutions . |
| 4 | As cricket activity wound down during the first two years of the war the Otago CA was finding Crawford to be an expensive acquisition , with only £103 in the Coach 's Fund and £169 being paid out for a six-month period . |
| 5 | ‘ Most of the children came in during the first two days and our helplines were flooded with calls , but they appear to have calmed down now . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a very good thing he 's been involved in the pre-tour training at Lilleshall and is going along for the first three weeks of the Indian tour to bowl in the nets . |
| 7 | That settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation . |
| 8 | That , that is , that is the way that they were chosen , and two years ago , I think , we put one point two million pounds in for the first seven schemes . |
| 9 | I got excuse me , put down in the first eleven for hockey . |
| 10 | A goal down in the first 10 minutes . |
| 11 | The delay necessitated going back to the trough for a third-round of venture capital after going through the $12m brought in by the first two rounds . |
| 12 | Debussy takes over for the first two of five of the Eight Piano Pieces Op. 15 , of Dirk Schäfer ( 1873–1931 ) — surprisingly , in view of the derisory remarks Schäfer made about Debussy quoted in the notes . |
| 13 | Freddie did not manage to keep us in the Cup against the powerful Rangers outfit but , usually playing at centre-forward , he steadily repaid that fee several times over during the first five post-war seasons , for not only has his tally of 48 League goals only been exceeded by six players here at The Palace since then , but his goals were scored in struggling Palace teams , which only once finished in the upper half of the League table . |
| 14 | Everything came through in the first nine months of 1991 so the company was able to trade profitably . |
| 15 | They have contributed only 39% of what the central government requires them to hand over in the first three months of the year . |
| 16 | Please have a think you know have a think about some of the things have a look out if you get out anywhere tonight watching people when they 're together just watch them any ideas that you have tomorrow we 'll start off with the first ten minutes just going over some of the things we talked about this evening . |
| 17 | The FA will also investigate Dunstable 's bizarre exit from the FA Cup on Saturday when the entire team walked off in their second-round qualifying tie at Staines after having three players sent off in the first 38 minutes . |
| 18 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 19 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 20 | He notes that any loss of earnings can usually be made up during the first ten years of work . |
| 21 | From there on , the cherry and whites took complete control and were 10 points up in the first 14 minutes . |
| 22 | But after the relativists ' case is built up in the first two articles , no one has much to say for it , at least not the strong version that splits systems of thought into watertight compartments . |
| 23 | Piper , fighting behind a stiff left jab and a MENSA rating of 153 , backed Benn up in the first two rounds , with hard short rights . |
| 24 | LAST year , when the Dublin Tornadoes played the Belfast Spartans , the Tornadoes went 13–0 up in the first two minutes of the game before the Spartans fought back to win 16–13 . |
| 25 | This year the Tornadoes again went 13–0 up in the first two minutes . |
| 26 | CAPTAIN Will Carling last night told England to sing up and play up in the first 20 minutes or risk Naas Botha wrecking their hopes of winning today 's historic international at Twickenham . |
| 27 | The Diadora League minnows could have been three up in the first 20 minutes . |
| 28 | So I will take the blame for that one , but why did n't the machine tuck up on the first two garments of the same size ? |
| 29 | Over 60 turned up at the first two sessions at the town 's Southlands Centre . |
| 30 | Er Nick carry on from the first six months after Oliver Twist you can read |