Example sentences of "done in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main damage was done in the first twelve months , when GDP fell by 3 per cent , industrial production by 9 per cent , and unemployment doubled to 2.5 million . |
| 2 | As he had done in the first round , he reached the green and they got their par . |
| 3 | Since then I have done something I should have done in the first place : found a gap in the rushes only ten yards downstream where I can heave into the fish without pulling them into more weed . |
| 4 | Perhaps radio is now fitted inside the crash helmets , I never understood why this could not have been done in the first place , along the lines of the radios issued to policemen or the earphones that , thank God , are popular with those who can not live without constant noise . |
| 5 | Who wanted the job done in the first place ? ’ |
| 6 | So I did what I should have done in the first place , I put the wire hangers and small weights on the edges . |
| 7 | The report was able to recount what had been done in the first year of effort of the newly-organised national campaign for emancipation but to stress continuity through reliance on the circulation of pamphlets by Wilberforce and Clarkson ; reformers were ‘ thus enabled to proceed under the conduct of the same veteran Champions who had first led the battle against the African Slave Trade and who had pursued it to its final extinction ’ . |
| 8 | This has been done in the first instance through joint ventures with Ladbrokes and Bass respectively , though Horizon also owned and operated hotels in its own name . |
| 9 | UTILITY — A small program which will do a single , simple job ; often performing a function that Windows ought to have done in the first place . |
| 10 | Yes , but , the the main part of this as I understand the drawing , you 'll have to ask Mr when he comes , but the main part of , of the square , which would n't be the third which is done in the first phase according to the phase that they 're currently proposing . |
| 11 | ‘ Probably what I should have done in the first place . |
| 12 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that more could be done in the first instance to prevent offences ? |
| 13 | Would it be done in the first year of a Labour Government , in the first Labour Parliament , or in two or three terms , or will there be an exchange rate mechanism-type growing process whereby we get used to the idea over 10 or 15 years and the Scots can have it immediately because they are culturally and politically ready for it , but the people of the north , who are not that bothered , will have to wait 15 years until they see the advantages that will supposedly accrue to Scotland and then will mount the barricades and demand the same for themselves ? |
| 14 | Which you would have done in the first place , Lowell thought , if you had n't been so sure that Rose was here . |
| 15 | It 's just the same as what we 've done in the first one , and we 're |