Example sentences of "and [prep] the first three " 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 " 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 This was not easy , and in the first three places at which he enquired there was no room , they were all spoken for .
9 One sometimes gets the impression that IBM Corp is more solicitous over the needs of its Stamford , Connecticut-based IBM Credit Corp subsidiary than it is over its own , and yesterday , in the wake of the parent 's big $285m loss , IBM Credit was able to announce that profits actually rose 0.3% at $58.3m ; the return on average equity was 20.2% , compared with 21.3% in the first quarter of 1992 and in the first three months of 1993 , IBM Credit originated financing for $1,700m of equipment , software and services for IBM 's customers and distribution channels , down 22% on the figure for the first quarter 1992 — financing for end users decreased by 45% to $600m while financing for distribution channels decreased by 1% to $1,100 , the company noted .
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