Example sentences of "in the first [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always expect and be ready for a launch failure in the first 500 feet on every launch . |
| 2 | Some 169 Washington babies died before their first birthday in the first six months of this year , bringing the capital 's infant mortality rate to 32.3 deaths for every 1,000 live births , a 50 per cent increase on 1988 . |
| 3 | Worldwide , Lowe International won over £100m of new business in the first six months , more than double the total 1988 increase . |
| 4 | Taking everything together , I strongly suggest that the idea that an economic miracle took place in the first six Thatcher years is a very dangerous myth . |
| 5 | The number of listeria cases rose by a quarter in the first six months of this year , Dr Diane Roberts , of the Central Public Health Laboratory , told a London conference yesterday . |
| 6 | Société Générale , one of the country 's biggest banks , had to raise provisions against dud loans by more than half in the first six months of 1990 . |
| 7 | The 0.1% productivity rise in the first six months of this recession compares with an average fall of 1.2% ( at an annual rate ) in the same period of the past four recessions . |
| 8 | They tracked all the involuntary departures reported in the press of chief executives and chairmen of British firms in the first six months of 1988 . |
| 9 | In the first six years of the Thatcher premiership eleven private sector industrialists were given peerages . |
| 10 | In Mary 's reign , between 1542 and 1574 , when the civil war which followed her deposition was finally over , there were twenty-five large-scale bonds involving groups of people , five of which were made in the first six years of the minority , as well as the thirty-six individual bonds made mainly for political purposes by Arran and Mary of Guise , and the two by Beaton which , in view of the comment by John Knox about the extensive number of his bonds , can only be a small proportion of the total . |
| 11 | The Treasury 's forecast , indicates gross domestic product in Britain this year will increase by 1 p.c. , rising to 3 p.c. in the first six months of 1993 , compared with the same period the previous year . |
| 12 | Table 4.2 shows the total amount of time spent by the clients in institutional care ( whether short- or long-term ) in the first six months , and in the first 12 months , after referral to the psychogeriatric service . |
| 13 | Very limited resources were allocated to general social and community facilities in the first six years of the LDDC . |
| 14 | In the first six months of 1848 , some 120 local cases were sent to the Middlesex Hospital . |
| 15 | These satellites and more recent balloon and rocket flights show that in the first six years of the 1970s the Sun 's radiation had increased by 0.2 per cent . |
| 16 | The scientists warn that the lack of data on humans , the wide variety of potential genetic effects , coupled with the sheer number of genes involved ( 10 000 for each human sex cell ) make it impracticable to try and assess the impact of chemical mutagens beyond the most important mutations in the first six generations . |
| 17 | The groups believe that the demand from consumers is increasing : in the first six months of 1989 , sales of organic meat trebled , fruit and vegetable sales doubled and demand for organic cereals by millers quadrupled . |
| 18 | As it happened , of the 5381 children who arrived in the first six months of 1939 , only 113 re-emigrated , and most of those went to join their parents who had escaped Germany by other routes . |
| 19 | In the first six months of 1939 , the staff of the RCM at Bloomsbury House , mostly volunteers , fluctuated between sixty and seventy . |
| 20 | This number is seen to be much higher in the later 1970s and in the 1980s , supporting the view that more and more school-leavers were then finding it increasingly difficult to obtain jobs in the first six months after leaving school . |
| 21 | Joint-ill , as this infection is commonly called , can occur at any age up until three to four months of age , but is most common in the first six weeks of life . |
| 22 | IN the first six months of 1992 , 35,750 households lost their homes ( which could mean nearly as many repossessions as last year ) ; and , even worse , at the end of June 1992 , 305,140 households were in arrears of six months or more , compared to 275,350 at the end of 1991 , suggesting a rising trend . |
| 23 | Homelessness continues to be a major problem : in the first six months of 1992 , 73,310 households were accepted as homeless by local authorities in England alone . |
| 24 | BAD debts at Southern Water more than doubled to £2.7m in the first six months to end-September , when profits rose 8% to Pounds 60m . |
| 25 | Piper may be articulate and polite , but he is genuinely tough and a real threat to Benn — who I believe must get through to him in the first six rounds or face disaster . |
| 26 | Faldo powered into the lead in the race for the £366,000 top prize with a series of rapier thrusts producing three birdies in the first six holes on the tough Tryall course skirting the Caribbean . |
| 27 | Indeed , City analysts reckon that in the first six months of 1992 listed companies ' dividends only increased by 2% as companies tried to improve their balance sheets and build up dividend cover . |
| 28 | The volume of factored turnover rose 10% to £7.52bn in the first six months after an increase of just 2.5% in the whole of 1991 , according to the Association of British Factors and Discounters ( ABFD ) , which represents 11 of the largest factoring companies . |
| 29 | In the first six months of 1992 the group 's investment return totalled £31.1m ( v £46.8m ) , made up of investment income £25.2m ( v £21.3m ) , interest expense £0.6m ( v £0.6m ) , realised investment gains £13.8m ( v £11.7m ) , and unrealised investment losses £7.3m ( v gains £14.4m ) . |
| 30 | Indeed when the hope finally collapsed , in the first six months of 1939 , the peace movement collapsed with it . |