Example sentences of "[pron] first three " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose on the other hand that as a thoroughly loyal supporter of the Fruity Party I give all of my first three preferences to all of its three candidates — to Cherry as well as to Apple and Banana . |
| 2 | After I have given my first three preferences to Apple , Banana and Cherry my fourth preference , if I express one , will count only if Apple , Banana and Cherry have been either elected or eliminated . |
| 3 | There is very little in the way of documentation in the public records about those early days of L Detachment and the story of their first three months has to be pieced together from their own memories . |
| 4 | More importantly , the Housing Act 1988 proposes to create Housing Action Trusts ( HATs ) that would be centrally-appointed bodies with planned resources of £125 million in their first three years of existence . |
| 5 | On that day their first three Nigerian Sisters made their final profession . |
| 6 | The early leaders in the Western Division won their first three matches , and not all Devon 's success belonged to Roebuck . |
| 7 | Young babies inflict substantial disruption on their mother 's sleep in their first three months of life , when they are at their most dependent , when the mother 's judgement and good temper are most important . |
| 8 | It might be appropriate to ask the Mental Health Act Commission to provide a second opinion on such patients at the end of their first three months with the power to extend the time for free treatment . |
| 9 | Some superb striking by Michael Glass took Ballymena out of trouble after Lurgan had whipped out their first three batsmen for nine runs at Eaton Park . |
| 10 | Well our research has shown that something like eighty percent of all small business 's do n't undertake any formal training within their first three years of operation and more than sixty percent do not do any formal business planning or look further ahead than one month from today . |
| 11 | Children cared for by grandmothers or foster mothers during their first three or four years often have great difficulty when they return to live with their natural parents or a new step-parent . |
| 12 | Solicitors in respect of their first three practising certificates are exempt from all contributions to the Fund ( whether or not they have held clients ' money ) , and in respect of their next three renewals are only required to pay one half of the full amount . |
| 13 | Scotland have taken only two points from their first three games in their qualifying group and trail Switzerland , Italy and Portugal . |
| 14 | By the end of their first three months as partners they declared a profit of four pounds eleven shillings , despite having a gas oven refitted at Salmon 's and allowing Charlie to buy his first second-hand suit . |
| 15 | There are still very few schools that have mixed ability groups in all of their first three years , but more and more school are introducing some mixed ability group in their first three years , and about thirty per cent have mixed ability grouping in their first year now . |
| 16 | There are still very few schools that have mixed ability groups in all of their first three years , but more and more school are introducing some mixed ability group in their first three years , and about thirty per cent have mixed ability grouping in their first year now . |
| 17 | There are still very few schools that have mixed ability groups in all of their first three years , but more and more schools are introducing some mixed ability groups in their first three years and about thirty per cent have mixed ability grouping in their first year now , something around fifteen per cent have mixed ability in the first three years . |
| 18 | There are still very few schools that have mixed ability groups in all of their first three years , but more and more schools are introducing some mixed ability groups in their first three years and about thirty per cent have mixed ability grouping in their first year now , something around fifteen per cent have mixed ability in the first three years . |
| 19 | The video , which cost £1 million to produce , has already sold three million copies in America in its first three weeks on release . |
| 20 | Give As You earn , as it is called , raised over £10m for charity in its first three years . |
| 21 | The SQL Access Group has published its first three specifications , which set guidelines for database interoperability and communication , after more than three years in development ( CI No 2,148 ) . |
| 22 | NeTpower expects to deliver its first three unnamed turnkey machines in volume this fall : a sub-$5,000 entry-level R4000 desktop , a sub-$10,000 high-end R4400 desktop and a low-end sub-$10,000 R4400 deskside server . |
| 23 | The National Government in its first three years thus operated on the curious basis of the Prime Minister depending to an unusual extent on the second man in the Government , and that second man in turn depending to an equally unusual extent upon the second man in his own party . |
| 24 | They talked about other Christmas flops and bombs , delaying for as long as they could any mention of TCT 's ‘ T is He Whose Yester-evening 's High Disdain ’ , which had cost practically nothing to make and had already done 120 million in its first three weeks . |
| 25 | In its first three years in office tax revenues from all sources increased as a proportion of national income . |
| 26 | Euro Disney claims that one of its tour operators has sold 70 per cent of its first three months of Euro Disney allocations . |
| 27 | The Thomas Harris referred to was closely associated with the composer , and his signature may be seen as witness to Handel 's will and to its first three codicils ; in the fourth and last codicil he actually becomes a beneficiary . |
| 28 | We are pleased to see a programme of monitoring and review built into the scheme and hope that it will be possible to measure its success at the end of its first three years and make adjustments as necessary . |
| 29 | New Zealand has another Irish pub — and it sold over 50 kegs of Guinness in its first three weeks , well ahead of any other beer it stocks . |
| 30 | The scheme , to be supervised by the Countryside Commission , will be granted £13 million in its first three years . |