Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OIL production by member states of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries dropped 900,000 barrels a day to 23.5m last month but remains well above the cartel 's target level of 22.9m for the first half , the International Energy Agency has said . |
| 2 | Feare ( 1970a ) thought it to be at least 90% during the first winter . |
| 3 | We appreciate what a stumbling block this can be and will lend you 100% as a first time buyer . |
| 4 | Royal Mail is giving a package of technical support and advice worth £3,500 as a first prize , to enable the winner to make the best use of postcodes in her business . |
| 5 | It dipped further on occasions when an end to the war seemed in prospect , notably on Feb. 15 and again on Feb. 19 , when it went briefly below $16 for the first time since July 1990 . |
| 6 | He charges £40 for the first hour and £25 thereafter — which neatly incorporates the call-out fee in the first hour . |
| 7 | Finally , we should note the healthy expansion in the number of women candidates — exceeding 25% for the first time in the metropolitan authorities . |
| 8 | WARTIME Spitfire pilot F/L Tony Cooper was recently re-united with his aircraft for the first time since crashing on marshland near the Humber Estuary in 1944 . |
| 9 | Deploying fighter aircraft for the first time since the 1991 Gulf war , with some flights north of the 36th parallel ( i.e. over the Kurdish " safe haven " area ) , the Iraqis also built up in early April their deployment of ground forces , surface-to-air missiles and radar tracking equipment directed north of the 36th parallel , apparently seeking to capitalize on US inaction over " skirmishes " with the Kurds . |
| 10 | It has been revived under the auspices of the Burlington Magazine , and there will again be two categories of prize : the main award of $15,000 and a further award of $5,000 for a first book by a promising scholar . |
| 11 | Little more than $200,000,000 for the first year was pledged , however , with some $60,000,000 of this on concessional terms ; further pledges of $150,000,000 were forthcoming for the 1991-93 period . |
| 12 | Normally , the rates are £19.50 for the first halt hour and for each additional quarter of an hour or part of it , £4.50 , For weekday overtime the rates go up to £23.80 and £5.45 , for Saturday overtime , £24.70 and £5.65 , Sunday overtime , £31.70 and £7.15 and for Bank holiday overtime , £37.00 and £8.25 . |
| 13 | This means that initial conditions need to be specified so as to provide the data for the first set of calculations . |
| 14 | Food flavourings maker Borthwicks jumped 2p to 30½p after serving up a 37% profits increase to £1.28m in the first half . |
| 15 | But the use of aircraft in the First World War showed the potential of aerial reconnaissance for discovering and interpreting archaeological sites , and this technique was pioneered by OGS Crawford ( 1886–1957 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ I always wanted to tackle the overcrowding in Darlington which is why I provided the £243,000 in the first place . |
| 17 | The concept of a failure rate of over 25% in the First Division has raised objections from those who understand that an omelette can not be made without first breaking some eggs but would rather not run the risk of being dairy produce . |
| 18 | Despite the improvement from IBM 's personal computer business , overall profits were weak in the company 's hardware operations : the gross profit margin on hardware sales for the first quarter was a dismal 29% , compared with 48% a year ago ( a decline of 19% has been bandied about , but that came from someone that does n't understand percentages — it 's a fall of 19 percentage points or 39.6% ) ; the overall gross margin was 39.5% in the first quarter , down from 50.8% a year ago ; IBM 's tax rate was 25% in the first quarter , below the 45% rate IBM had indicated earlier ; IBM told analysts to continue to expect the 45% rate for the rest of this year . |
| 19 | This will mean a proposed increase of £460m in the first year , followed by £770m in the second rising to £1.95 billion within five years . |
| 20 | The first 5 portfolios ( P 1 to P 5 ) use the data from the first part of Table 6.6(a) . |
| 21 | The model is now being further refined using data from the first well and will be used for the rest of the development programme . |
| 22 | Although the data from the first study are still being analysed , initial results are promising . |
| 23 | Their results and the data from the first stage will be used to test how far and in what way the experience of the NICs can be a model for their successors . |
| 24 | The company , which also makes Scalextric , saw profits crash by 70 per cent to £158,000 in the first half of this year . |
| 25 | It was reported that trade between the two countries had increased from $770,000 in 1988 to $7,740,000 in the first quarter of 1989 . |
| 26 | On 17 September Christie 's announced that it had cut its interim payment down to 0.5p compared with 2.3p in the first half of last year . |
| 27 | Spurred on by the collapse of home demand , UK companies increased exports by 5% in 1991 and by a further 3% in the first half of last year . |
| 28 | The only difference would be that the government would pay a private firm to provide the data in the first place . |
| 29 | For bonds which do not fall in value below £20,000 on the first anniversary there is a bonus of 0.4% gross ( 0.3% net ) . |
| 30 | Sales revenues for scholastic Publications Ltd reached £8.96m for the first half of the company 's financial year ( June to November 1992 ) , representing an increase of 23.5% over the same period in 1991 . |