Example sentences of "from [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The centrepiece of this sale of Antiquities is a Graeco-Roman bronze statuette of Harpocrates dating from about the first century BC , which is estimated to go for £150–200,000 ( $270–360,000 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Now , does anybody know where all that cotton comes from in the first place ? ’ |
| 3 | At the time , the proposal was plausible although , of course , it still ducked the issue of where the spores had come from in the first place . |
| 4 | If crime is learned from others ( as differential association proposes ) where did it come from in the first place ? |
| 5 | And apparently the firm that she ordered the thing from in the first place had been er , re-set up . |
| 6 | The orang-utan lineage appears to have originated from within the first trend , with further modifications of skull and postcrania , but with little change in environments . |
| 7 | The collection ranges in date from before the first Pharaoh ( c. 3500 BC ) to objects produced during the Roman domination of Egypt in the early centuries AD . |
| 8 | Three of us , an American student , a German woman and I , watched newsreels dating from before the First World War to about nineteen forty-eight . |