Example sentences of "the first [adj] [noun] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , it was the first successful attempt in this genre because it gave its performers an opportunity to reveal their talents as actor-dancers . |
| 2 | Figures for the 70s and 80s show that , in total , about 75,000 people have emigrated during the first 85 years of this century , and emigration is still popular in 1990 . |
| 3 | Augustus laid out the first Imperial residence in this part of Rome , followed by Tiberius , Caligula and Domitian ; Septimius Severus built here on a very large scale . |
| 4 | The first six chapters of this book have all focused upon the financial and economic analysis underlying major investment decisions . |
| 5 | Some 169 Washington babies died before their first birthday in the first six months of this year , bringing the capital 's infant mortality rate to 32.3 deaths for every 1,000 live births , a 50 per cent increase on 1988 . |
| 6 | Figures from the Public Health Laboratory Service ( PHLS ) revealed 7,848 confirmed cases of salmonella during the first six months of this year , a 17% decrease over the same period last year . |
| 7 | The number of listeria cases rose by a quarter in the first six months of this year , Dr Diane Roberts , of the Central Public Health Laboratory , told a London conference yesterday . |
| 8 | The 0.1% productivity rise in the first six months of this recession compares with an average fall of 1.2% ( at an annual rate ) in the same period of the past four recessions . |
| 9 | FRANKMOBILE : A certain tour van that gave us so much pleasure and pain during the first six months of this year . |
| 10 | The society 's bad debt charge for the first six months of this year was £29.7 million compared with £7.2 million for the same period in 1991 . |
| 11 | In the first six months of this year nearly 30,000 small firms went to the wall — a third up on 1991 . |
| 12 | BUILDING giant Wimpey crashed more than £7 million into the red in the first six months of this year — despite earning £730 million . |
| 13 | Britain 's trade gap in the first six months of this year was £6 billion — nearly the total Chancellor Lamont had predicted for the whole year back in March . |
| 14 | The AirBreak group , which also includes Next Holidays , Peter Pan Ltd and Suntan Tours , revealed a £2.9 million loss for the first six months of this year . |
| 15 | They 've cost GRE a whopping £28 million in claims in the first six months of this year . |
| 16 | In the first six months of this year , the society wrote off £26 million to homebuyers who have failed to keep up payments . |
| 17 | The Russian Ministry of the Interior reports that , in the first six months of this year , 2,211 crimes in that field have been registered and about 10,000 works of art stolen from State museums and private collectors . |
| 18 | NCD claims to have shipped 25.9% of the 96,610 X-terminals thought to have been installed worldwide during the first six months of this year . |
| 19 | The National Westminster bank , for example , opened 76,000 new small business accounts in the first six months of this year , which suggests a robust small firms sector . |
| 20 | Unpublished figures from Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) , Greenpeace says , indicate that 22,580 tons of toxic waste entered Britain in the first six months of this year . |
| 21 | Bankruptcies , including voluntary and er company liquidations , up by seventy five percent in the first six months of this year . |
| 22 | Just over two hundred thousand vehicles were sold in the first six months of this year , a rise of thirteen per cent on the year before . |
| 23 | In the first six months of this year , nineteen people were killed , compared to twenty six during the same period last year . |
| 24 | In the first six weeks of this year , 10,500 redundancies were announced in the United Kingdom financial sector . |
| 25 | Problems with a flaked bone in his foot , a broken toe and then hamstring and rib injuries meant that McLeish played only seven times for Aberdeen last season and also missed the first 11 matches of this one . |
| 26 | According to a survey in Sports Illustrated , almost 500 players had to miss games through injury during the first 11 weeks of this season , an average of around 17 per team . |
| 27 | It is hardly surprising that the reign of Napoleon I , an era of warfare on an unprecedented scale , should have seen the first tentative moves in this direction . |
| 28 | Published by Arts and Co. , the present catalogue is the first comprehensive treatment of this collection . |
| 29 | One sample in seven contained residues in 1986 and the level had fallen to one sample in 20 in the first eight months of this year . |
| 30 | Last December the government attempted to boost the housing market by scrapping stamp duty from most house purchases for the first eight months of this year . |