Example sentences of "or [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Move the cursor to a blank line or on to the first character of the text to follow the blank lines |
| 2 | ‘ I had to take him on more or less from the first . |
| 3 | Either through this , or through their exercise of coercive powers , the great landed nobility were able to minimize damage to their incomes in the first twenty years or so after the first onset of the plague . |
| 4 | Then he had another one about er Gertrude who was erm , I never did know very much about Gertrude but she was erm a lady of some repute in er in Egypt a at erm either just before or just after the First World War . |
| 5 | Choose a sun protection factor of 15 or more for the first few days . |
| 6 | Government support of this kind in fact increased substantially during the generation or more before the First World War , when the foreign ministry trebled its spending on cultural relations in general . |