Example sentences of "from the [num ord] [det] " in BNC.

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1 As he set off for the airport Lewis remembered that he had told Adam from the first that only trouble could come from a person of his youth and inexperience inheriting a big house and land of the dimensions of Wyvis Hall .
2 It finds these approximate solutions by linear interpolation from the first few genuine observations .
3 This algorithm is incremental because it creates clusters from the first few data , and these early clusters can be used at once , even though they may be improved during later learning .
4 Only good thing was Dorigo ( apart from the first few minutes ) who played brill .
5 And there certainly had been a great deal of stress and tension — almost from the first few weeks following their wedding : Lady Nancy Wyndham 's total opposition to their marriage ; her own mother 's sudden untimely death , followed by her father 's long-drawn-out and eventually terminal illness ; the total immersion of Ross in his business affairs , and — the final catalyst — the affair between Ross and his personal assistant , Marissa Kenton .
6 ‘ If we have learned anything from the last few years , it is that availability is the main occasion and the trigger for experimentation among the young . ’
7 I have just read the article on the Cessna 172 in the July Pilot and I quote — spasmodically — from the last few paragraphs of p22 :
8 Chris Smith , Labour 's Shadow Environment Secretary believed the country 's problem came not from the last few weeks , but the previous 13 years .
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