Example sentences of "in the first [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly IBM found itself facing a steadily growing Japanese challenge , especially from Fujitsu , NEC and Hitachi — all three of which companies were in the first six in the world league for mainframes and for data processing overall . |
| 2 | In the first two of the three Arnold sinfoniettas it is fascinating to compare the American performances with those of Ross Pople and the London Festival Orchestra on their Hyperion disc , which has the obvious advantage of offering all three sinfoniettas . |
| 3 | Answer guide : In the first two of these cases the question is how much to include , not whether the expenses should be included . |
| 4 | A particularly good time to be out-of-doors in natural lighting in the first two to three days after the flight is that corresponding to the evening and first part of the night on ‘ old time ’ , 9 o'clock to 3 o'clock ; this should help to delay your body clock . |
| 5 | Table 11.2 Good and bad times for exposure to natural light in the first two to three days after a time-zone transition Meals and drinks • Try to make meals of the ‘ correct ’ type ( breakfast , lunch , etc. ) at your adjusted times . |
| 6 | Most of the larger calendar and diary publishers should make contact in the first two to three months of the year . |
| 7 | ( In the Soviet Union a draft law allowing all citizens to obtain a passport quickly had already been given a first reading , and the Soviet delegate estimated that between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000 Soviet citizens could decide to emigrate " in the first two to three years " . ) |
| 8 | The following year Calero looked like getting in the Ryder Cup side , but he had to finish in the first two at York ( Benson and Hedges International ) . |
| 9 | I got excuse me , put down in the first eleven for hockey . |
| 10 | Alan Shearer wore the number ten shirt with high hopes of scoring the goals in the first international since the retirement of Gary Lineker . |
| 11 | Even so , in the first eight of the Republic 's general elections they enjoyed nothing like the success of women candidates in Scandinavia . |
| 12 | Since national expenditure reached 14 per cent of the prewar level in the first three-quarters of 1922 , huge currency issues had to be made to bridge the gap between income and expenditure . |
| 13 | It has been shown , for example , that levels of violence during industrial disputes fell in the first three-quarters of this century , but that this trend has been reversed more recently ( Geary , 1985 ) . |
| 14 | The most important thing to remember is that a foal should get adequate colostrum from the mare in the first four to eight hours of life . |
| 15 | It is the consort for which Morley and Rosseter published their Lessons and which supports the voices in the first seventeen of Sir William Leighton 's Teares or Lamentacions of a Sorrowfull Soule ( 1614 ) . |
| 16 | The summary X value is the median X in each third ; in the first third of the data , the summary X value is 109.5 , the value for the other South East . |
| 17 | Most complications ( n=7 ) occurred in the first third of the series and may partly be ascribed to a ‘ learning process ’ with the operation . |
| 18 | Because the attacks are most common in the first ten to twelve weeks of life , the name ‘ three-month colic ’ is often used . |
| 19 | The two are not being played in the First XV at the moment because they will not be available for the league matches , as they will be in Australia and Fiji with the national squad . |
| 20 | While short-term separation of parent and child under favourable circumstances is unlikely to be damaging to the child , long-term separations can have more serious effects , particularly when they occur in the first three to four years of the child 's life . |