Example sentences of "and [prep] the first [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a girl is lucky and her parents are alive , she goes to her mother 's house for the last few months of her pregnancy and about the first three months of the baby 's life . |
| 2 | Most lived alone in isolated outposts with the nearest countryman a day or two of travel away , and for the first hundred years there was no telegraph or railroad . |
| 3 | And for the first five years of my life , I just led a very lonely life with only the my grandmother and my parents and the farm men . |
| 4 | Moreover , foreign policy dictated caution ; with France and Scotland in alliance , she could not immediately break with Spain , and for the first four months of her reign the watching world was asked to believe in her willingness to contemplate marriage with her late sister 's husband , Philip II . |
| 5 | In the immediate neighbourhood of The Milebrook were few families except for the local farmers , and for the first four years there we had no transport other than bicycles and a pony cart . |
| 6 | Lipson and colleagues subsequently report ( May 22 , p 1352 ) from Australia a girl born with multiple congenital defects to a mother , who before conception and for the first 5 weeks of gestation , had used a topical liquid preparation of 0.05% tretinoin in 45% alcohol . |
| 7 | In fact , Los Angeles scared him a little and for the first six months he barely ventured out of the house alone . |
| 8 | Special educational needs was always a much more prominent aspect of the work of Phase 1 coordinators than of those in Phases 2 or 3 , and for the first three years of PNP SEN was the dominant coordinator task in Phase 1 . |
| 9 | There was a rapid improvement in pH and PaCO 2 for the NIPPV group , and for the first 3 days they were less short of breath than the control group . |
| 10 | Behind it lay the Anglo-American fusion that had powered the paper in 1966 and through the first eighteen months . |
| 11 | There , she had been happy in Pakistan ; she had been happy in the Peckham house at least for the first year ; she had been happy working for Graham ; she 'd been enthusiastically interested at college and during the first two years after she had qualified ; she had been completely delighted when she had got the job she now had : a tenants ' association garden in a dreadful estate in Hackney , but where she , with a community group , had planned the garden from scratch and had made a small desert blossom like a rose . |
| 12 | Lord ‘ Bertie ’ Denham , the bluff and genial Chief Whip who floated between the Lords , White 's and Pratt 's proffering a glass of whisky to any peer tempted to vote against a government bill , likes to maintain that there is no inbuilt Conservative majority in the Lords , and during the first two Thatcher terms the government did indeed lose 111 votes . |
| 13 | And during the first three centuries A.D. , there were certain Mandaean or Johannite sects , especially in the region of the Tigris-Euphrates basin , who honoured John , not Jesus , as their prophet . |
| 14 | Consequently , you seem to have experienced a testing period in close personal ties and in joint financial arrangements , and during the first three weeks of April you will come to realise that a day of reckoning or a major upheaval was unavoidable . |
| 15 | " The neighbourhood was not very populous and during the first three days our visitors were few , some children from the village below , a gypsy woman or two with dark eyes , who carried of a few halfpence , and perhaps a chance passer by . |
| 16 | During 1989 a total of 21,882 people , nearly twice as many as in 1988 and most of them from Eastern Europe , sought asylum in Austria , and during the first three months of 1990 the numbers reached 5,000 , most of them being Romanians who were arriving at a rate of 200 per day in late February . |
| 17 | And , in one sense , the history of the formation of the BDDA and of the first hundred years is the history of a struggle to remedy the mistake of Milan . |
| 18 | The history of its formation and of the first hundred years fills the following pages . |
| 19 | However , if England do progress beyond the opening round — and with the first two from each group plus the four best third-placed teams going through , it is going to take some wretched performances to fail — they will then travel to Bologna , Genoa or Turin for the second phase , with the prospect of visits to Naples , Rome or Florence in the quarter-finals . |
| 20 | However , if England do progress beyond the opening round — and with the first two from each group plus the four best third-placed teams going through , it is going to take some wretched performances to fail — they will then travel to Bologna , Genoa or Turin for the second phase , with the prospect of visits to Naples , Rome or Florence in the quarter-finals . |
| 21 | Last year it was £9.5 billion , and in the first nine months of this year it is £2 billion . |
| 22 | From here anaspids , lampreys and perhaps some thelodonts developed a downturned asymmetrical tail ( hypocercal ) , and in the first two there were definite endoskeletal fin rays with , in at least lampreys , associated musculature . |
| 23 | According to Japan 's Ministry of Finance , direct investment in the Philippines by Japanese companies in 1987 was $72,000,000 , while in 1988 the figure rose to $134,000,000 , and in the first six months of 1989 the amount was already $101,000,000 . |
| 24 | After its vast spending spree on new factories at the tail end of the 1970s and in the first five years of the 1980s , IBM scared the pants off its competitors by stressing that it was by far the lowest-cost manufacturer in the industry . |
| 25 | The founder-members numbered eleven , and in the first ten years of its existence a further forty-three members were elected . |
| 26 | Their direction was poor and in the first 12 overs they conceded 12 wides and no-balls , so it was an unexpected bonus when Donald , with the last delivery in his first spell of four overs , had Haynes caught at backward square-leg . |
| 27 | Table 4.2 shows the total amount of time spent by the clients in institutional care ( whether short- or long-term ) in the first six months , and in the first 12 months , after referral to the psychogeriatric service . |
| 28 | Leaving the rest of community care aside , the admissions to our part three E P H s were thirteen in July , twelve in August and in the first twenty eight days of September , just four . |
| 29 | The pregnant mare needs about 14 percent of he diet in protein during the last third of her pregnancy and in the first three months of lactation . |
| 30 | This was not easy , and in the first three places at which he enquired there was no room , they were all spoken for . |