Example sentences of "and in the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few excuses can be offered for the England batsmen 's failure to pile up runs both here and in the first Test at Calcutta , where they were beaten by eight wickets . |
| 2 | Next month Clarify will add its ClearQuality defect tracking system and in the first quarter ClearLogistics , a field service and inventory management system intended to support companies with hundreds of engineers , thousands of customer calls a week and millions of dollars of field service inventory . |
| 3 | Books in the eighteenth century , and in the first quarter of the nineteenth , were little illustrated and were expensive . |
| 4 | On the single day of 1 March 1973 , Germany absorbed $2.7 billion , and in the first quarter of 1973 as a whole the US reserve position deteriorated by $10 billion . |
| 5 | Certainly he played extremely well in that position after Peter Wall was injured for most of 1972–73 and in the first half of 1973–74 , and it was from that position that he captained the Palace side . |
| 6 | Despite these criticisms , the report stimulated initiatives based on its recommendations and in the first half of 1981 Her Majesty 's Inspectors carried out a survey of Haycocks II provision in the nine English RACs . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what was the level of capital investment in the North sea in 1990 , and in the first half of 1991 . |
| 8 | The hitherto buoyant Taiwan stock exchange suffered an unprecedented decline during 1989 and in the first half of 1990 . |
| 9 | The official statistics agency , Goskomstat , announced on April 19 that oil production had declined by 9 per cent during the first quarter of 1991 as compared with the same period in 1990 , and in the first half of 1991 there was a 25 per cent fall in oil exports . |
| 10 | I was in the middle of the kop for this game , and in the first half it was very much the place to be . |
| 11 | Both teams needed to win this match and in the first half , there was only one winner ; Gloucester . |
| 12 | ‘ The trouble with using a Hasselblad is that you black out after each shot , and in the first session I 'd cut off the arms in one or two shots , so I had to go back and re-shoot those . |
| 13 | The note to which I refer of six er page six seven five reads as follows , the words omitted from sub-sections one , four and five and the whole of sub-section three were repealed and sub-section six was substituted by the Local Government Act nineteen seventy two , sections one hundred and ninety-six one two , two hundred and seventy-two one , Schedule thirty , the words in square brackets in sub-section one and in the first pair of square brackets in sub-section two , were substituted and the words omitted from para two B , paragraph two B and the whole of paragraph two C , both of which had been inserted by the Local Government Act nineteen seventy two , section two hundred and seventeen , schedule twenty- seven , part two , paragraph eighteen were repealed . |
| 14 | At the time the Caribbean islands seemed the more attractive prospect , and in the first generation of migration more Englishmen went there than to the American colonies that developed north of Virginia . |
| 15 | The book was finished in 1985 , and in the first year 30,000 copies of the hardback edition were sold ; later a paperback was published , and still further The Pocket Oxford Book of Prayer , in an attractive and durable format , for long life with regular use . |
| 16 | The Commission was supposed to be guided in its deliberations by the Nazimov Rescript , the programme adopted by the Main Committee in December 1858 , and the schemes devised by the provincial gentry committees , but the first and third of these were too conservative for its taste and in the first year of its life it gave them short shrift . |
| 17 | But in world judo at present , there is a group of young fighters all jockeying for the top positions — and in the first day of the World Championships here yesterday , they began to sort themselves out . |
| 18 | And in the first day of life they tend to sleep an awful lot , right , so newborns tend to be sleepy and inactive and the things that , that wake babies up and warm them are feeding , crying , limb movement . |
| 19 | Theirs is sometimes a robust way with Mozart , but it remains pleasantly flexible both tonally and rhythmically , and in the first work of all ( K19 d ) they show the kind of skill that unfussily makes the natural-sounding best of the conventional material written by a boy of nine on his London visit . |
| 20 | On the face of it the statement ‘ God is Truth ’ seems to imply that Truth is an attribute or description of God , and in the first instance Gandhi was content to allow the phrase to be used in this way although it did not accurately reflect his position . |
| 21 | We would be very pleased to discuss any aspect of staff development and in the first instance contact should be made with the Administrative Officer with responsibility for this area of our work . |
| 22 | Two completely trivial points must be mentioned as they may bring readers up with a start : in the first movement of the Sibelius symphony at 3′17″ ( bar 40 ) , the third trombone plays E sharp instead of E natural , and in the first movement of the Shostakovich ( track 7 , 7′19″ , six bars after fig. 16 ) the bassoon plays a G natural instead of a flat . |
| 23 | I had slept in the bedroom myself not so many years before , and in the first light of morning had got up to see what the village might have looked like before the traffic came and before the stone walls had been breached . |
| 24 | In the analysis of linguistic variation , therefore , we were looking for fine details of variation-variation that shows internal patterning within the speech community , but which may have no social meaning for outsiders — and in the first application for funding it was specified that the research was intended to extend the quantitative methodology to a type of community that had not been studied in this way before . |
| 25 | This was just five days after his seventeenth birthday , and in the first weeks of his first term in Cape Town , so there was cause for excitement . |
| 26 | For 133 days in 1988 Lyle had led the US Money List , he had won the Phoenix , Greensboro and Masters titles and in the first months of 1989 he twice came second . |
| 27 | Heisenberg did not immediately appreciate this last point and in the first draft of his paper it was not considered . |
| 28 | The canal was never a commercial success , though it was made deeper after Telford 's death , but it is still open , and in the First World War it served the strategic purpose for which it had not been needed during the Napoleonic Wars : 70,000 mines were shipped through it , mainly by the U.S. Navy , to protect Allied merchant shipping against German U-boats . |
| 29 | Oh he was on the river he he was always connected with the river my father and in the First World War they towed the dredger from here to Ramsgate and er he was , he was in the Army but he was connected to the Inland Water Transport and cos they were dredging out the harbour at Ramsgate . |
| 30 | And in the first lesson nobody noticed and yet I was really noisy , and in the second lesson nobody noticed . |