Example sentences of "first [coord] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In none of these cases does either the first or the second element qualify as a semantic constituent : |
| 2 | Second song , first first or the second side . |
| 3 | Here the choice is still simple : either the first or the second syllable will be stressed — not both . |
| 4 | His classmates started , started to curse erm to curse him and to humiliate him I think from the first or the second grade , and erm he was my friend , I had to , to fight for him . |
| 5 | It would not be the first or the last time . |
| 6 | Although John Locke was neither the first nor the last philosopher to address a problem which artists and aestheticians as well as other philosophers constantly must face , he exerted a telling influence on its history . |
| 7 | So the payment increased on average by 75% between the first and the second repetition , while the group payments rose from 93% to 108% ( of an individual payment ) between the first and second repetition clear evidence of a learning effect and slight evidence of a group effect . |
| 8 | It does n't look very good , having erm , first and the second name without a space between the two , but I can actually put a space there if we entered a formula , by putting a double quote space , another double quote , and then another ampersand , filling the spaces of D six . |
| 9 | Student 's t test was used to compare mean difference ( D ) between the first and the second biopsy labelling indices in relapsing and non-relapsing patients . |
| 10 | Well the working in the pit and the first and the first time I went down the pit er the pit was er John Watson 's number four colliery in Motherwell . |
| 11 | The spread of the TNCs has brought significant changes to the sexual division of labour in both the First and the Third World . |
| 12 | Denis and his new gang had the first and the last laugh … only 11 minutes had gone when Cusack set Chrissy Allen up for a prize goal … |
| 13 | Gastroscopies ( 2–5 per patient ) had been performed with the interval between the first and the last endoscopy varying from 11 to 170 months . |
| 14 | The proportion of young people from classes I and II staying on at school until the age of 18 or later increased by 2.4 times between the first and the last cohort , while the corresponding proportions for the other two groups of classes are 2.3 and 2.1 times . |
| 15 | Bob Logist had the first and the last round drawn and the remainder for Leonard , while Joe Cortez gave the fourth , fifth , ninth and 10th rounds to Duran to produce the narrowest margin , 116-111 . |