Example sentences of "top [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In Cup competitions we have lost only once against five teams in the top six of the First Division . |
| 2 | He 's taken them from the old Fourth to the top three in the First Division . |
| 3 | Thankfully , ‘ Dirty ’ , the Sonics ' recent Geffen album , entered the UK Top Ten during the first week of release and , even if it has a long way to go to equal the sales of ‘ Nevermind ’ , things could be taking a turn for the better . |
| 4 | And Price 's win lifted him into the top ten for the first time . |
| 5 | The latest league table ( up to July 1992 ) of the value of the US installed computer base , compiled every six months by La Jolla , California-based Computer Intelligence Corp , includes a Unix machine in the top ten for the first time , among the IBM and Amdahl mainframes , AS/400s and Cray -YMPs . |
| 6 | Liverpool 's defeat , which threatens to prevent them finishing in the top five for the first time since their initial season back in the First Division 30 years ago , was again due to the unpredictable goalkeeping of Grobbelaar . |
| 7 | ENGLAND have two squash players in the world 's top seven for the first time in more than a decade . |