Example sentences of "out [prep] [adj] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably the most important factor affecting family formation is that people are choosing to have fewer children , although 9 out of 10 first marriages do have children . |
| 2 | Twelve twelfths out of that out of that first pizza . |
| 3 | It 's not necessarily erm a target if you do n't get it hard luck er that 's the end of your s your time with us , it 's just a target that we would like we know that we 're gon na clear all our costs out of that first year . |
| 4 | Erm , it could have been spread out over the whole twenty five years as it is with other products , but in life assurance at the moment , it 's out of those first four years . |
| 5 | It was out of this first floor gallery , with its annually changed exhibitions on different aspects of rural life , that the Scottish Agricultural Museum was eventually born . |
| 6 | For the moment , however , it suffices to point out that our usual conception of logic — reasoning things out from abstract first principles — resembles the behaviour of the men in Gilligan 's study rather than that of the women . |
| 7 | No longer would he have to pin all his hopes on the random burglaries that he 'd carried out in that first couple of days , none of which had turned up anything better than a shotgun or a low-calibre target weapon ; those were useless for his purpose , and he 'd left them where he 'd found them . |
| 8 | The disadvantage of this is that the horse misses out on that first year of becoming accustomed to life and its excitements . |