Example sentences of "except the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keener has looked after all Nigel Kennedy 's recordings except the first ( the Elgar Sonata for Chandos ) including the recent Brahms Violin Concerto for EMI . |
| 2 | FROM THE treasury of BBC moving pictures comes a further production of classic action , all set on English fields , all in colour except the first sequence ( the Oval Test of 1968 ) , all pleasant , positive viewing . |
| 3 | Brunel would have nothing steeper than 1 in 660 for the first eighty-five miles out of Paddington ; Robert Stephenson planned the London and Birmingham Railway with no gradient steeper than 1 in 330 ( except the first rise from Euston to Camden ) ; and Locke nothing steeper than 1 in 250 on the difficult London and Southampton line . |
| 4 | Two years later , in his essay on Rabelais , the list of enemies has altered — all except the first item : ‘ Railways , factories , chemists and mathematicians . ’ |
| 5 | Except the first two or three years I was here . |
| 6 | A millionaire paying an 83 per cent tax rate on all taxable income except the first 54 000 1978–79 was paying only 40 per cent per cent in 1990 91 . |
| 7 | There were players now on every hole except the first two . |
| 8 | Tension had given her a dull , thumping headache so that she absorbed nothing except the first entry on the list . |
| 9 | In the former case When m = 0 , all integrals on the right-hand side except the first are zero and therefore This result just confirms , of course , that the steady component is the time average of the signal . |