Example sentences of "the first [noun] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 8th July , coinciding with the start of BR 's summer timetable , saw the first day of four train operation . |
| 2 | Nikola ( Figure 4.3 ) is a straightforward case of a transfer from the first year of one degree course direct into the second year of another . |
| 3 | The European champions , who host the first leg in 11 days ' time , have lost Ruud Gullit and Marco Van Basten and are struggling for form . |
| 4 | They occupied a room on the first floor for three hours before being evicted . |
| 5 | The first consignment of 32 Mirage jets from Australia arrived in Pakistan on Nov.29 , 1990 , following negotiations which had begun in late 1988 . |
| 6 | The first order of 3,000 units ( 72 boxes in a unit , 12 cubes in a box ) left CPC 's Burton upon Trent factory a week ago . |
| 7 | In April industrial production rose by 0.1% , the first increase for seven months ; retail sales fell by only 0.1% , after a big upward revision for March which transformed a 0.8% fall into a 0.4% rise . |
| 8 | However , it quickly became clear that the opera would not be ready in time for September , even though Mozart had finished the first act by 22 August . |
| 9 | The council elections to be held in Chile in June will provide the first opportunity in 20 years for Chileans to vote against the ‘ eyes and ears ’ of the military dictatorship , according to Maria Antonieta Saa , the human rights activist and Chile 's only woman mayor . |
| 10 | REMEMBRANCE was one of the first Film on Four projects . |
| 11 | The video , produced by Axel Ltd , is the first film in 77 years to be rejected by the board on the grounds of blasphemy . |
| 12 | Convoys have been intermittent and this was the first convoy for four weeks . |
| 13 | The first haul of 264 specimens has now arrived at the Open University 's base in Milton Keynes . |
| 14 | THE first strike for 18 years among Germany 's 2.3m public sector employees was threatened yesterday as the government rejected a 5.4 p.c. pay rise recommended by arbitrators , writes Robin Gedye . |
| 15 | First to profit from this trend are Bradford 's Dudley Hill , who , with five members of the English Students World Cup squad in their side , have made an explosive start in the BNFL national league , leading the first division with six wins from six matches at an average of almost 40 points per game . |
| 16 | He is joint fifth top scorer in the First Division with 16 tries . |
| 17 | Garston Snooker League are now approaching the half way stage with Woolton Village Club leading the first division with 23 points from eight games closely followed by Mossley Hill Legion ( 22 ) . |
| 18 | The leading positions in the four divisions of the Bootle Snooker League after six weeks of the new season see Liverpool Billiards and Snooker Club leading the first division with 24 points from Corals ( 22 ) and Corals B team ( Bootle ) on 18 from four completed matches . |
| 19 | Monie , who has led Wigan to a record three consecutive Challenge Cup and Championship triumphs , said : ‘ The proposal to play County Cup matches pre-season and increase the First Division to 16 clubs is crazy . |
| 20 | They lead the first division by one point from Gloucester , so it 's going to be some cup tie . |
| 21 | The Census Dissemination Unit and the Census Microdata Unit have been funded in the first instance for five years . |
| 22 | Seventeen years later , then Flight Lieutenant Reif , he flew as one of the first navigators in 2 Squadron Canberras when that unit deployed to South Vietnam in April 1967 . |
| 23 | The first census for 15 years , scheduled for Jan. 7-14 , ran into controversy over the collection of data on the Hungarian-speaking minority . |
| 24 | In 1971 , about 10% of marriages involved the first marriage of one party to a divorced partner and 4% involved the remarriage of two divorcees ; by 1989 , these proportions had risen to 19% and 13% respectively . |
| 25 | To prove the point his shrimpfly caught the first salmon for 15 years when Kilmaurs Angling Club , of which he is chief fund raiser , visited a river near Crianlarich . |
| 26 | At 0600 the first patrol of eight men , led by Lieutenant Roger Thompson , rolled out of Hofoaek Barracks in their two Land-Rovers on the start of their 270 kilometre round trip . |
| 27 | Torquay then pounded the Quakers with high and in-swinging balls , but the first goal on 13 minutes came from ground level . |
| 28 | Could n't believe it when they got the first goal after ten seconds |
| 29 | This feature was designed to cover the first flights of three Spitfires , during the time of its production that statistic changed to four ! |
| 30 | In the first half of 1858 gentry committees like those which the Nazimov Rescript set up in the north-western provinces came into being throughout the European part of the empire . |