Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book was finished in 1985 , and in the first year 30,000 copies of the hardback edition were sold ; later a paperback was published , and still further The Pocket Oxford Book of Prayer , in an attractive and durable format , for long life with regular use . |
| 2 | The Rye are proof that this idea works : they were on the first tour two years ago and are now probably the hottest property in the region . |
| 3 | Captain Fuchs got the first warning seven minutes after leaving Schiphol airport at 6.22 Sunday evening . |
| 4 | I think they have more pedigree than the other team in that they were in the first division four years ago , erm so I think we can expect a harder game than we had last time . |
| 5 | Liverpool 's defeat , which threatens to prevent them finishing in the top five for the first time since their initial season back in the First Division 30 years ago , was again due to the unpredictable goalkeeping of Grobbelaar . |
| 6 | Once there had just been Trocchi drawing on the group 's ideas , there had been the sTigma exhibition in Better Books in 1965 , the obituary of Andrée Breton — one of the group 's intellectual roots — by Jean-Jacques Lebel in the first It fourteen months earlier . |
| 7 | Jim Smith 's Second Division outfit are the first non-Division One winners of the Professional Footballers ' Association Fair Play Award . |
| 8 | For the first fortnight three weeks |
| 9 | Maybe they 'll elope to Gretna Green if they ca n't find a vacant Martello tower , then it will leave me with more time for my Roman friend and dear Boudicca not to mention Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals of which I have perused the first paragraph six times yet can not seem to recall it to mind . |
| 10 | Discussions on these and other subjects , which started at the first consultation two years ago , will be developed further next August at the Third Indonesian Consultation on Theology and Communication . |
| 11 | After the first round 8 teams went through to the final comprising 5 AIB Bank teams from Bank Place Ennis , Nenagh , Bindon St. , Ennis , 63 O'Connell St. , Limerick and Charlesville , B/I 94 O'Connell St. , Limerick and Ulster Bank O'Connell St. Limerick . |
| 12 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
| 13 | for the first time five years of ed |
| 14 | Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ? |
| 15 | The Company 's hint was taken , and on 6th July the Charity Commissioners approved the new Board , which met for the first time twelve days later and agreed to advertise for a Headmaster who — after all the fuss and contrary to what may have been expected — was required to be an Anglican clergyman ! |
| 16 | This is the first time 3 forces have gone into a joint exercise from the outset and I think we 'll see that example spread right across the country to the extent where eventually the whole country will be given police air support . |
| 17 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 18 | the the original , the first weight gain , the first week ten days is bad enough you only gain two or three pounds but it 's all going round your tummy |
| 19 | By the following year that innocence of 1969 had turned into the appearance of the first page three girls in the freshly Murdoch-bought Sun . |
| 20 | Without any shade of doubt , France deserved to win the first official Five Nations championship and — would have probably grabbed the Grand Slam as well — but for the Twickenham goal posts . |
| 21 | Peter Jenkinson , Head of Walsall 's Museums and Art Galleries commented : ‘ When we launched the first show three years ago , we were amazed at the amount of secret collectors we discovered behind ordinary people 's front doors . |
| 22 | The first qualifying 10,000 customers who apply through one of the society 's branches will get a voucher guaranteeing no stockbroking commission . |
| 23 | The first qualifying 10,000 customers who apply through one of the society 's branches will get a voucher guaranteeing no stockbroking commission . |
| 24 | This year there will be a Jubilee Expedition to the forest region of northern Finland to which the founder , Surgeon-Commander G. Murray Levick , RN , led the first expedition 60 years ago . |
| 25 | After the first interview 10 patients ( seven good responders , three poor responders ) had a second diagnostic anorectal manometry . |
| 26 | By the first evening 16–17,000 men had already been mustered on Haldon Hill and other reinforcements , including 7000 tin-workers from Cornwall , were on their way , but the Lord Lieutenant of the county , the Earl of Bath , who arrived to take command , was an experienced regular officer and was not prepared to risk sending the militia against Louis XIV 's troops . |