Example sentences of "almost [adv] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bully behaved himself almost perfectly the first time round the field . |
| 2 | Almost immediately the first breath of cooler air reached them . |
| 3 | Almost invariably the first step in the enforcement of a charge is for the debentureholders or their trustee to obtain the appointment of a receiver . |
| 4 | Further , we were almost certainly the first publishing operation set up from scratch to capitalise on the new technology . |
| 5 | The family was almost certainly the first resort . |
| 6 | It was almost certainly the first wedding breakfast that particular Lyons ' teashop had provided . |
| 7 | A set of 255 of the logged searches — those which were almost certainly the first search in a session or which bore no apparent relationship to the Previous search — were repeated by the experimenters on EXP CTL and a third system ( OSTEM ) which did no stemming at all . |