Example sentences of "one [prep] the first [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rate depends on the engine size , and gives two figures : one for the first 4,000 miles , with the second rate for all business mileage over 4,000 miles . |
| 2 | With Spain pushing hard for one of the first six seeded places , England could find themselves unseeded and playing in Sicily too , as the side ranked No.2 in a Group F headed by Belgium . |
| 3 | Not that it 's much anyway , but it 's , it 's , there is a difference , and there is this pride of getting there , being one of the first six to get there , and there is quite a lot of competition , I can assure you . |
| 4 | If you 'd like one of the wall charts , which give useful hints , tips and cooking times , you can get one free if you are one of the first 100 readers to write to Prestige Pressure Cooker Wallchart Offer , Film House , 142 Wardour St , London W1V 3AU , enclosing sae . |
| 5 | In October 1871 she became one of the first five students at Newnham College , Cambridge , founded by Henry Sidgwick [ q.v. ] with Anne Clough [ q.v. ] , a Bulley family friend , in charge . |
| 6 | And er therefore er w we made the most of it , my chum and I , Sid , we were in nineteen thirty two I would think we would be o one of the first hundred people or so to go with a , a week 's f er tour to Paris by air . |
| 7 | We have a dozen Note Trackers to give away and you can win one by answering the following three questions and being one of the first twelve correct entries out of the hat . |
| 8 | In February 1990 I was one of the first two secondees from the accountancy profession to join the Investigations Division at the DTI . |
| 9 | It is apt that one of the first two recordings made by Kurt Masur in his new role as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic should be of the New World Symphony , particularly when it comes in ample time to celebrate the centenary of the first performance of that favourite work by this very orchestra in December 1893 . |
| 10 | For an established and successful brand , the objectives might well be , to a large extent , ‘ maintenance ’ objectives : to keep a high level of awareness of the brand , ideally as one of the first two in its field spontaneously named by respondents to a regular survey ( something often described in the US as ‘ share of mind ’ ) ; to maintain a high level of belief in the brand 's superiority over its main competitor on certain key attributes of the product type ; to encourage people to offer the product to their visitors . |
| 11 | Gin produced by one of the first two processes will usually be labelled London gin or distilled gin ( sometimes both ) . |
| 12 | By 1568 they were incorporated as one of the first two English joint-stock companies , the Society of the Mines Royal , with some important royal servants and London merchants as members . |
| 13 | The simple block just mentioned , the rising block , is one of the first two blocks a beginner learns . |
| 14 | One of the first two out had peeled off to the left towards the Orchard . |
| 15 | If we believe that integrity is a third and independent ideal , at least when people disagree about one of the first two , then we may well think that fairness or justice must sometimes be sacrificed to integrity . |
| 16 | One of the first two women , who left shortly after midnight on Sunday , was identified as Victorine Hollingsworth , 59 , a British citizen . |
| 17 | We have some 20 copies of these promos for disposal , so if you feel life wo n't be the same without one , just jot down the title of Moz 's latest solo album on a postcard and wing it to : Maybe one of the first 20 correct entries to be drawn from the office Christmas sock will be yours ! |
| 18 | In 1782 Warltire was elected one of the first forty-five honorary members of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society , the others including such illustrious men as Antoine Lavoisier , Alessandro Volta , and Benjamin Franklin . |
| 19 | On 26 March the junta decided that the invasion would take place on one of the first three days in April . |
| 20 | In the early stages of inflammation one of the first three remedies will probably be indicated . |
| 21 | Their vows were received by the General Moderator of the Congregation , Sr. Ellen Gielty , who was herself one of the first three Notre Dame missionaries to go to Nigeria in 1963 . |
| 22 | Alanson became one of the first three surgeons appointed to the Liverpool dispensary in 1778 . |
| 23 | The impression given by de la Broquière of the Mufti as a chiefly religious figure is strengthened by the only two known incidents in which one of the first three " traditional " Muftis was actively involved in his capacity as Mufti , namely Fahreddin Acemi 's rout of the Hurufis and his taking the chief seat in the debate on both of which incidents find parallels in the careers of later Muftis . |
| 24 | The Whitemoor pit was one of the first three mines in Britain to reach a production figure of one million tonnes per year . |
| 25 | Bishop Auckland General Hospital was one of the first three units in the district to achieve its target and Erika Wallis , chairman of South West Durham Health Authority , paid tribute to consultants , nurses and staff for their ‘ commitment and hard work ’ . |
| 26 | The traditional medical course at Harvard was a postgraduate entry , four year one with the first two years spent studying the basic sciences and the second two devoted to clinical subjects . |