Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] [prep] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They occupied a room on the first floor for three hours before being evicted . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | REMEMBRANCE was one of the first Film on Four projects . |
| 7 | The video , produced by Axel Ltd , is the first film in 77 years to be rejected by the board on the grounds of blasphemy . |
| 8 | Convoys have been intermittent and this was the first convoy for four weeks . |
| 9 | The first haul of 264 specimens has now arrived at the Open University 's base in Milton Keynes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He is joint fifth top scorer in the First Division with 16 tries . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Census Dissemination Unit and the Census Microdata Unit have been funded in the first instance for five years . |
| 17 | The first census for 15 years , scheduled for Jan. 7-14 , ran into controversy over the collection of data on the Hungarian-speaking minority . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Torquay then pounded the Quakers with high and in-swinging balls , but the first goal on 13 minutes came from ground level . |
| 20 | Could n't believe it when they got the first goal after ten seconds |
| 21 | During 1990 and the first half of 1991 relations altered dramatically with the Soviet Union , which , struggling with momentous internal political and economic problems , made major cuts in its aid programme to Vietnam , and a cutback in the Soviet naval and air base at Cam Ranh Bay ; in October 1990 the Soviet ambassador to Vietnam announced that the Soviet Union had started to withdraw its troops from the base . |
| 22 | Despite an intensification of fighting in Kashmir in the first half of 1990 talks with India continued , with the fourth round completed in April 1991 . |
| 23 | Little dabs of left brake counteracted the crosswind for the first couple of hundred yards , but above sixty knots the rudders became effective and she was easy to align just beside the centreline lights to spare us their jolting . |
| 24 | No , she bloody ought to after the first couple of dozen times , but anyway , when they come back and we got back at night and we started playing them and putting things on er you know they got to like it |
| 25 | Figures from the Halifax show growth of half a per cent in house prices during September , the first rise for three months . |
| 26 | Total sales in 1992 amounted to £636 million compared to £583 million in 1991 , a rise of 9% and the first rise after two years of decline . |
| 27 | In the first quarter of 1991 exports to former Eastern bloc countries fell by 79.1 per cent and imports from them by 67.3 per cent , whereas exports to hard-currency areas rose by 28.5 per cent and imports from them by 100 per cent after a 58 per cent devaluation in the zloty in January 1990 to a rate of US$1.00=Zl9,500 , and further devaluation in May 1991 to $1.00=Zl11,100 [ see p. 38208 ] . |
| 28 | A tightening labour market , coupled with higher productivity growth , was reflected in higher wage settlements ( in the first quarter of 1989 wages increased by an average 5.2 per cent — one point higher than the previous year ) , with the accompanying risk of an increase in the inflation rate . |
| 29 | He won the first race by 27 seconds and the second by 33 seconds . |
| 30 | Hawke did receive a boost from the unemployment figures , however , which showed that there had been a fall in May to 9.4 per cent , the first reduction for five months . |