Example sentences of "through the first [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intended to introduce the young reader to natural history , the first four books in the series — entitled Puppy , Kitten , Frog and Duck — chart the growth of these animals and birds from birth through the first crucial weeks and months of life ( see above ) . |
| 2 | Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours . |
| 3 | After a false start by world champion Tatyana Ledovskaya , Gunnell was into her Rolls-Royce stride instantly , coasting through the first 200 metres with principal rival Sandra Farmer-Patrick firmly in her sights in the next lane . |
| 4 | After a false start by world champion Tatyana Ledovskaya , Gunnell was into her Rolls-Royce stride instantly , coasting through the first 200 metres with principal rival Sandra Farmer-Patrick firmly in her sights in the next lane . |
| 5 | Using early documentary evidence , Olive Geddes guides the reader expertly through the first four centuries of the sport , shedding light on its birth , the techniques and equipment used , and above all , its social standing as it began to develop from an outlawed activity to the world 's most internationally popular game . |
| 6 | Punch , Kick and fight your way through the first four levels of Kung Fu Louie to face the ultimate challenger ‘ Martial Art ’ ( Art being short for Arthur in this case ) . |
| 7 | Behind it lay the Anglo-American fusion that had powered the paper in 1966 and through the first eighteen months . |
| 8 | Yes , go through the first five minutes , there were all different tasks , erm , at first , the girls were making up a basic jingle that would be about thirty seconds , and everyone else was looking through to see what words they should use . |
| 9 | Treatment Centres take the sufferers through the first five steps of the recovery programme in as many weeks in order to lessen their dread in anticipation in the future and not because they believe that it is really possible to recover at that speed . |
| 10 | To them I was just another recruit , and if I did well , got myself through the first six months and became a legionnaire , then I would matter to them because I would be part of their system . |
| 11 | The aims of the research are : to undertake a wide-ranging review of the priority assessment techniques applied by local authorities to transport projects ; to apply a representative sample of the techniques to a common set of projects ; and to distill the experience gained through the first two stages , together with knowledge of recent developments in the theory and practice of multiple criteria analysis into a computer-based priority assessment package . |
| 12 | Athletes who have trained normally through the first two trimesters have delivered normal babies . |
| 13 | Erm so I all we 're trying to do now at the moment though is , is to , to operate from the point of view of saying look , if you actually take all these things into account , we should n't be worse than we were ultimately , once these systems have bedded in , we 're doing more checking on letters for example th than , than we w we wo n't have to once we 've checked through the first two months of auto-offs , and we 're getting used to the new reports and so on and that sort of stuff , so we expect there to be a blip , but you would expect a learning curve in anyway . |
| 14 | Mrs Bolger who 's expecting a baby next month has not been in court but her husband Ralph sat through the first two days . |
| 15 | They agree that skill requirements are reduced as mechanisation moves through the first three stages , but part company in their interpretation of what happens in fully automated plants , Bright claiming that , because the machinery becomes virtually self-sufficient in terms of needing no worker input , such work that does remain is subject to more centralised control and closer supervision even though the tasks to be performed may have become more sophisticated . |
| 16 | There are obvious paths through the first three fields . |
| 17 | Is it possible for a person to move smoothly through the first three levels of understanding and still leave out something essential ? |
| 18 | There are various clinics and self-help groups to support and encourage those wanting to kick the habit ; but a lot of determination will be needed to get through the first difficult weeks or months . |
| 19 | Let's briefly go through the first few generations of the main line of evolution in Figure 4 . |
| 20 | She ran through the first few pages of each of the paperbacks , her mouth falling open as she read . |
| 21 | He reached across and picked one up , flicking through the first few pages . |
| 22 | Sabrina opened the top file and leafed through the first few invoices . |
| 23 | Medication is not always the right resource in times of distress , but there are certain situations that are so terrible that you will need something to help you through the first few months . |
| 24 | So just skim through the first ten lines then eleven to the end really concentrate on . |