Example sentences of "well [conj] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Triumph did develop the Stag a little , but not enough to make the last of the series significantly better than the first . |
| 2 | To which the best answer is : a lot better than the first person in any queue organised by Mr Kaufman . |
| 3 | Our group of five to 12-year-olds pronounced the film ‘ brilliant ’ and ‘ even better than the first ’ . |
| 4 | The scientists — from the IBM Almaden Research Centre — say the storage capabilities of the new photorefractive polymers were on the order of 100 times better than the first polymer films , which IBM developed two years ago . |
| 5 | I dared not even glance at " Happy " , but to add insult to injury I gave the order " About turn ! " and they repeated the gazelle-like jump even better than the first time . |
| 6 | Nobody could ever bring themselves to putting an animal out of its misery because the farm was no longer talked about , although at the back of everybody 's mind was a dream of a new farm , even better than the first , with water being pumped from underground to irrigate the crops . |
| 7 | The ApT sites are cut with similar efficiency to many of the GC sites , though the second ApT in ( CG ) 5 TATATA(CG) 4 is cut less well than the first . |
| 8 | Part-time courses , which included 228 first degree courses , also recruited well and the first year intake showed an increase of 11 per cent . |
| 9 | Chettle back into the Leicester half now Thomson and Agnew combining well and the first time Ball volleyed out towards Ormanroyd . |
| 10 | Pitman , which is the U K leading er , business book publisher increased sales by sixteen percent and Alhambra after the er , reorganization is doing rather well and the first book we 've published on the new Spanish educational curriculum is forty percent ahead of er , budget . |
| 11 | But I remember quite well when the first incandescent gas mantles came in . |
| 12 | It will be argued that when the second source is threatened as well as the first , the power to coerce can devolve on the civil sphere in a substantive way . |
| 13 | Enough if I have shown that if we care to do so , we can illustrate the second as well as the first half of what I may call the Plowden proposition . |
| 14 | Smith , in his second Test , top-scored in the second innings as well as the first , but it was all totally predictable ; 150 all out left West Indies 39 to win , and less than six overs sufficed . |
| 15 | We have financed the European Arts Festival to be held throughout Britain during our Presidency of the Community in the second half of this year , as well as the first National Music Day in June . |
| 16 | The first three fastest men , the first 040 , 050 and 060 men as well as the first three male teams were each presented with their prizes before any women were even mentioned . |
| 17 | And we developed and built the first air-launched anti-tank missile , as well as the first launch-and-leave imaging infrared homing air-to-surface missile . |
| 18 | His list was none the less wide-ranging enough to include some handsome illustrated books , as well as the first regular publications of both Alfred , Lord Tennyson [ q.v . ] |
| 19 | It is not possible to arrange that the second derivatives as well as the first derivatives of the coefficients all simultaneously vanish , because there are insufficient free variables . |
| 20 | erm that went about as well as the first maths one . |