Example sentences of "first [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September 1977 the decision was made to undertake the SPOT remote-sensing programme ; the SPOT- I satellite ( launched by Ariane , V- I 6 ) transmitted its first high-resolution pictures in 1986 . |
| 2 | Five million West Germans can already receive Eurosport , and 17 million Continentals in all , and this week the company will announce its first simultaneous commentaries in languages other than English . |
| 3 | The smells began to change : the woodsmoke and the sweet smell of the dung fires gave way to the heady scent of Indian champa and the first bittersweet whiffs of China orange blossom . |
| 4 | As the Austrian dominated the first eight races of the 16-race championship in defence of his world title , Hunt dominated the second half after Lauda 's horrific accident at the Nurburgring in August . |
| 5 | McGeechan had noted that , in the first eight lineouts against England on their own throw , the Welsh tactical deployment was different each time . |
| 6 | But , although the common ground is large and includes almost everything said in the first eight chapters about how to fill in the framework and conduct the disputes , unity then becomes too much for us . |
| 7 | Sheet B — carrying the first eight pages of text proper — has been replaced ; two new songs are tipped in ( printed on separate leaves , with instructions telling the binder where to put them ) ; and a cancel title-page proudly announces the alterations . |
| 8 | Fletcher , who , as captain , guided Essex to their first eight trophies between 1979 and 1985 , is widely expected to replace Micky Stewart at the end of this season when he retires , probably to take up a role with the TCCB . |
| 9 | From April 1983 , the first eight weeks of sickness benefit were to be met by the employer . |
| 10 | Figure 3 shows that the highest frequency of intolerances seem to occur in the first eight weeks after completing the course of elemental diet . |
| 11 | The pension can be drawn in full for the first eight weeks in hospital , after which your parent will be notified that it will be reduced by a few pounds ( for the exact amount of the reduction see the current issue of leaflet NI9 ) . |
| 12 | So it is that tomorrow , ITV will screen a profile of the man who spent the first eight years of his life in Abyssinia ( now Ethiopia ) and graduated to serious eccentricity via an English prep school ( where he was beaten ) , Eton ( where he learned to box ) and finally Oxford ( where he was a boxing blue and acquired the dramatically-bent nose which for six decades has lent drama to what would in any case have been a distinguished face ) . |
| 13 | Naomi Sargant , who for the first eight years of Channel 4 as the Senior Commissioning Editor for Educational Programming , talked to Women about her experience of the television industry . |
| 14 | In the pre-First World War days of two divisions , the top limit of transfer fees rose in the eight years from 1905 to 1913 from £1,000 to £2,500 , an increase of 150 per cent ; in the first eight years of three divisions ( 1920–28 ) they went up from £3,300 to £10,890 , an increase of roughly 230 per cent . |
| 15 | Mohammed has a son , Mustapha , who was a lively boy for the first eight years of his life , then some cerebral bug hit him . |
| 16 | This biography is not merely content to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about Dickens ( interesting fact : Dickens spoke with a slight ‘ metallic burr ’ in his voice ) ; nor does it stop at telling you everything you never wanted to know about Dickens ( uninteresting fact : there were white Christmases for the first eight years of Dickens ' life ) ; it goes so far , as with that unidentified novel , as to let you know when it can not tell you something . |
| 17 | One sample in seven contained residues in 1986 and the level had fallen to one sample in 20 in the first eight months of this year . |
| 18 | Last December the government attempted to boost the housing market by scrapping stamp duty from most house purchases for the first eight months of this year . |
| 19 | Neste posted a 76 per cent fall in pre-tax profits to FIM 399.2m ( £1 = FIM7.07 ) during the first eight months of 1991 , compared to the same period in 1990 . |
| 20 | He revealed that more than 100 people were hurt in 81 accidents in his county in the first eight months of this year . |
| 21 | Pons was chairman of the chemistry department , and , as noted earlier , his name appeared as co-author on over 30 papers in the first eight months of 1988 alone . |
| 22 | At least 79 people died in police custody in South Africa in the first eight months of 1992 . |
| 23 | Amnesty had recorded 45 death-squad murders in the first eight months of 1990 , compared with 40 for the whole of 1989 , and said that killings , torture and disappearances were continuing despite the human rights agreement signed by the government and the FMLN on July 26 [ see p. 37707 ] . |
| 24 | Iraq had accused the UAE , along with Kuwait , of undermining international oil prices by exceeding its agreed OPEC quota of 1,100,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , producing an average of 1,800,000 bpd in the first eight months of the year [ see p. 37631 ] . |
| 25 | A total of 57,300 million roubles had been issued by the State Bank in the first eight months of 1991 . |
| 26 | In addition intelligence figures showed that four people had been killed and 169 injured in attacks on foreigners by neo-Nazis and other right-wing elements in the first eight months of 1991 . |
| 27 | On Oct. 15 five leading banks reported cumulative losses of FM6,900 million ( US$1,490 million ) in the first eight months of 1992 . |
| 28 | A total of 1,200 African migrants had been arrested by the Civil Guard at Algeciras in the first eight months of 1992 . |
| 29 | In the first eight months of the year they were 36pc above the same period in 1992 . |
| 30 | This took western European visits for the first eight months of this year to 4.82m , another record . |