Example sentences of "the [noun sg] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was convinced he was about to do the same to me , when he suddenly appeared to notice the tent for the first time , shied away and crashed off into the trees . |
| 2 | ‘ We played them off the park for the first 25 minutes of the second half . ’ |
| 3 | The latest version of the Park 's Structure Plan , which sets out the basic strategy of the control of development in the park for the next 10–15 years , states that the visual impact of windfarms outweighs the net benefit to global conservation . |
| 4 | But Anna Pavord 's recognition ( 27 September ) of the opportunity for the twentieth century boldly to turn Uppark 's tragedy to advantage , is a more compelling argument . |
| 5 | As this was fastened and he was made ready for departure , the prince for the first time seemed ill-at-ease — as if only then did he sense the poignancy of the moment and was after all loath to go . |
| 6 | It was a thank you to the 70 maintenance crew who have serviced the planes at the base for the last 22 years . |
| 7 | Ten fighter jets from Upper Heyford have left the base for the last time , as the American operation there begins to wind down . |
| 8 | The crew returned to the base for the next mission on May 19 . |
| 9 | Five aircraft and three hundred american airforcemen will be at the base for the next two weeks . |
| 10 | Together this mixture of lumpen proletarian resentment and art-school manipulation lit the fuse for the first major explosion in pop music — and pop culture — for ten years . |
| 11 | instead the Church preferred to use the Annunciation for the first day of the year , and this led to the adoption of 25 March , nine months before Christmas , although this choice was by no means universal . |
| 12 | In 1906 an adverse report by the Board of Education 's inspectors on infant education led to the Board for the first time limiting school provision for children under five — hitherto the normal age for the entry of working-class children to full-time education had been three . |
| 13 | Her father has been an elder of the kirk for the last twenty years . |
| 14 | He was going to the cinema for the second time that week , with his beautiful lady , his Sweetheart , who looked and smelt and sometimes spoke like the real-life star of a Hollywood movie . |
| 15 | There was a line already forming outside the cinema for the next performance ; Gary was n't in it , but he was waiting to one side where a number of cutoff cast-iron pillars made an ideal site for leaning and lounging . |
| 16 | The judges unanimously deemed Malta to be the winner for the second year running . |
| 17 | Say the sentence for the last time . |
| 18 | The PACE Day Centre near Aylesbury has been using the technique for the last 3 years , but it could all be over in the next couple of days . |
| 19 | The finished machined material was then transported from this section via the special wagons , to the underframe shop : one load for the wagon side , and one load for the carriage side , each morning , for the first shift , and a repeat delivery in the afternoon for the second shift . |
| 20 | The right-wing Popular Party ( PP ) improved its position and the Alava Union ( UA ) , a new provincial splinter group of PP , entered the parliament for the first time . |
| 21 | The SPÖ won 47.7 per cent of the vote and 52 seats ( 54.9 per cent and 62 seats at the last elections in November 1987 — see p. 35792 ) ; the FPÖ won 22.6 per cent and 23 seats ( 9.7 per cent and eight seats in 1987 ) ; the Austrian People 's Party ( ÖVP ) won 18.1 per cent and 18 seats ( 28.4 per cent and 30 seats in 1987 ) ; and the Green Alternatives won over 9 per cent and thus entered the parliament for the first time with seven seats ( having won just under 5 per cent in 1987 ) . |
| 22 | This , of course , is a much more significant limitation on scope than exists in single-contract Conventions such as the Sales Convention , and in this respect the case for the second limb of application of the two latter Conventions is stronger . |
| 23 | This , however , is not the case for the first and third examples using the same adjective . |
| 24 | The case for the third , fourth and fifth defendants before this court , as before Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson , is based upon the undisputed fact that none of the payments made by the investors was made to these defendants . |
| 25 | The departures from a spherically symmetrical gravitational field are so big that J 2 is large enough to have been measured very accurately , and for the same reason this is also the case for the next gravitational coefficient in the series , J 4 ( jay-four ) . |
| 26 | The text for the first term 's production will usually be selected for the purpose of getting a new group to work together rather than trying to go for detailed individual performances . |
| 27 | Not prone to understatement , our Michael , as witness the opening paragraph of his colourful piece on the day Tendulkar took the field for the first time : The ghost of Lord Hawke failed to rise from the grave . |
| 28 | Eric Alston 's sprinter led the field for the first Sunday race at Doncaster a merry dance under Lester Piggott for just over five furlongs before fading behind Savoyard . |
| 29 | Simon Cruise returned the opening kick the entire length of the field for the first Touchdown . |
| 30 | We rode in the field for the first two weeks , and then I had to face the roads and the tractors . |