Example sentences of "to [num] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within marriage the most important change experienced by women was the steady decline in the fertility rate until after World War II ( Table 2 ) , while in the 1870s there were over 295 legitimate live births per 1000 married women aged 15–44 , this figure had dropped to 222 by the first decade of the twentieth century and to only 111 by the 1930s . |
| 2 | More than 680 homes were sold in January , rising to 750 for the first three weeks of this month . |
| 3 | A good victory was secured at Allander , winning by 4 goals to 2 in the first league match in November . |
| 4 | P&O said that their tourist vehicle trade had rocketed to 45,680 in the first quarter compared to 24,000 in the same period last year . |
| 5 | Extensions to 3 of the first 11 zones — Dudley , Wakefield ( W. Yorks. ) and Swansea — and to one of the second 14 zones — N.W. Kent — were made between 1983 and 1986 . |
| 6 | Racing CP beat Stade Francais by 4 points to 3 in the first French Championship final on March 20 , 1892 . |
| 7 | Four years before the Americans had won three games to one on the first morning . |
| 8 | That poem , ‘ Believing Is Seeing , ’ refers to one of the first poems we wrote together . |
| 9 | On the title page to one of the first volumes is written , ‘ Once Kitchen maid at Weston ’ . |
| 10 | Many years later , about 1943 , I introduced a distinguished Air Marshal to one of the first of the airborne glass-fibre radomes , a biggish thing intended to be bolted under a Lancaster bomber . |
| 11 | Ideally , you should use factors 12 to 15 for the first few days , while your skin 's natural defences are being activated ( the body produces more pigment cells , or melanin , and skin begins to thicken , which can take up to 48 hours to start becoming effective ) . |
| 12 | Greig won the toss but England then batted poorly , scraping their way to 197 in the first day , although only 80.4 overs were sent down in six hours , Close 's 60 being the best effort . |
| 13 | Well no no but I mean , if we limit it to two for the first day , and a I mean I shall know by eleven o'clock |
| 14 | He came up with them to Four on the first floor , Tom 's room . |
| 15 | During the 18th century , there were at least fourteen mills on the Painswick Stream and its tributaries , rising to thirty by the first part of the 19th century . |
| 16 | They opened , from scratch , within seven weeks to see 800 people fight their way through the store on opening day , building up to 1,000 by the first Saturday . |
| 17 | They find that pH declined from about 7.0 to 5.5 over the first few thousand years following deglaciation , owing to natural processes . |
| 18 | Lancashire opener Atherton had gone comfortably to 39 on the first day of the championship clash with reigning champions Essex at Old Trafford , when he hooked a Steve Andrew bouncer to Salim Malik at backward square leg . |
| 19 | Labourers ' wives who married at age 20 to 24 during the first decade of this century had on average 4.8 live births , or over 80 per cent more than the wives of professionals . |