Example sentences of "[num ord] of [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight , in the second of two reports we look at work being done to prevent the spread of Aids and the hopes for a medical breakthrough . |
| 2 | After the second of these excursions he came back to Marian 's side with : ‘ Is it not time that we took a look into this sack ? ’ |
| 3 | ROBERT SAM ANSON 's ‘ The Man Who Shot JFK ’ ( February ) was the first of many articles I read on the same subject — but I kept returning to his time and time again . |
| 4 | And if it did happen , your physical health could be just the first of many things you lose , that you take for granted now . |
| 5 | Her visit to the Association 's headquarters in Carlisle in November 1983 was the first of many engagements she has undertaken on behalf of the BDA in later years . |
| 6 | Just 4kms from the resort is the first of many places you just ‘ have ’ to see the Varone waterfalls . |
| 7 | The first of two holidays they spent together was on a cruise ship , the SS Romantica which took them to the Greek Islands . |
| 8 | It 's the first of those pages I would direct you |
| 9 | That is the first of three tasks he had been picked to do to pave the way for Italy 's first post-reform elections . |
| 10 | A few weeks later he scored the first of three hat-tricks he hit for the Palace when we toppled his former club , Watford , by 4–1 at Vicarage Road . |
| 11 | In the first of three parts we look back at the working life of country people featured in ’ Twenty-Four Square Miles ’ |
| 12 | He referred me to the first of several psychiatrists I was to visit for a year . |
| 13 | It was the fifth of those lectures he gave from 1769 to 1790 , known as his fifteen discourses . |