Example sentences of "in [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note the improvement ( though still to a high level ) in and the more modest improvement in between the first and the second repetitions . |
| 2 | mother 's house in because my father was in in the first world war so my mum had to go to live with my grandmother and er I was born there and er then when my father came home we came back to my mum came back to she ha got a little house somewhere I forget where it was street , does n't s it 's not there any more . |
| 3 | Certainly one thing is noticeable Leicester have n't er quite dropped back into the gear they were in in the first half Ron have they ? |
| 4 | I wonder whether it was leaking in , when they put it in in the first place ? |
| 5 | I 'm not saying that people would have never changed their ideas but if it would have been done in the manner that it would have been done in in the first place and if people would have been told about their future lives and if people had been , would 've accepted what was going on in light of all the decisions that have been taken previously regarding the merger issue . |