Example sentences of "about the first [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Oh every year , oh well we 've got a long time to keep it going , within about the first , within about the first month daddy managed to get the iron on the top
2 THERE would have been a report in today 's paper about the first parachute jump to be undertaken by 81-year-old old Mick Terrans , chairman of Durham County Council .
3 But it 's reminded me of one of my father 's books about the First World War , in which the author writes about the demise of a certain kind of army and a certain kind of warfare : cavalries organised in elegant formation for the war of movement .
4 I have n't got enough background information ’ ; ‘ I 've got to find out about the First World War , and I 'm not sure how to begin . ’
5 round about the first world war time , he used this sort of sort of pitching his tent up to the and staying there and learning their language and observing their rituals , getting to know them .
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