Example sentences of "about [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scholar , Hector Boece , first Principal of Aberdeen University , writing about Ayrshire in the first few years of the 16th century , observed that , , another indication of the age of the legend . |
| 2 | He jabbered about football for the first five minutes to smother her angry silence . |
| 3 | ‘ Parents who do n't want their kids taught about homosexuality in the first grade are not bigots . |
| 4 | On the contrary , we now know a great deal about Jesus 's milieu , and far more than most practising Christians realise about Palestine in the first century — its sociology , its economy , its politics , its cultural and religious character , its historical actuality . |
| 5 | It 's difficult to think about things for the first time in the heat of the moment , so plan it out now . |