Example sentences of "in the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is well known that I disliked what was in the first three-year letter of intent , but I wholly approved of the principle . |
| 2 | Always expect and be ready for a launch failure in the first 500 feet on every launch . |
| 3 | wins its independence from South Africa ; SWAPO and other exiles return to take part in the first general election . |
| 4 | The Human Rights Protection Party ( HRPP ) , led by Prime Minister Tofilau Eti Alesana , was returned to power on April 5 in the first general election under the country 's recently introduced universal adult suffrage . |
| 5 | In the first general election to the Grand National Assembly , in November 1983 , ANAP , led by Özal , won a decisive victory over the Nationalist Democracy Party , which was backed by the military . |
| 6 | Participation of over 80 per cent of the workforce was reported in some areas , in the first general strike in Italy since May 1989 . |
| 7 | In the first practical sign of a cooling of passions , the old Soviet flag was restored as an interim measure to about 20 ships of the fleet , which on Wednesday had hoisted the Russian ensign of St Andrew . |
| 8 | In the mining region of Asturias , however , it developed into a full-scale revolt involving not only UGT workers but also , in the first practical manifestation of the ‘ Workers ’ Alliance' , the CNT and the Communists . |
| 9 | This was demonstrated in the first political crisis of wartime , a carry over from peacetime . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Worldwide , Lowe International won over £100m of new business in the first six months , more than double the total 1988 increase . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In the first six years of the Thatcher premiership eleven private sector industrialists were given peerages . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Very limited resources were allocated to general social and community facilities in the first six years of the LDDC . |
| 22 | In the first six months of 1848 , some 120 local cases were sent to the Middlesex Hospital . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In the first six months of 1939 , the staff of the RCM at Bloomsbury House , mostly volunteers , fluctuated between sixty and seventy . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |