Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] for the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Radius Inc warns that it expects to report a second quarter operating loss larger than its first quarter operating loss , and that second quarter revenues to March 31 will be below the $36.9m reported for the first quarter , when it lost $0.05 per share or $713,000 ; it has seen slowing demand for its Macintosh enhancement products in Europe and to a lesser extent in the US . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most dramatic example of this is when people meet for the first time . |
| 3 | It is a fact that most people bitten for the first time by their own dog are bitten in the bedroom . |
| 4 | About half of these had been won from the moderate middle-class parties and were augmented by the vote of about 6 million new voters , half of whom were young people voting for the first time , and the other half of whom were people who up to now had been too weary , cynical or lacking in hope to vote at all . |
| 5 | Other historians have seen the Restoration as a counter-revolution ; a palace coup d'éat in which power passed from one part of the élite to another ; and a transfer of power which was an integral part of the growth of national , and nationalist , awareness among a people faced for the first time in centuries by real threats from the outside world . |
| 6 | The cross town route one of seven schemes in the county under threat was expected to attract £2m from the EC towards the £8m needed for the first stage of the road , between McMullen Road and Darlington 's southern bypass . |
| 7 | When Roe won for the first time at the Catalan Open in 1989 , it was predicted that he would become a regular winner on Tour . |