Right-hand context sorting

The following example was created using the Longman Mini Concordancer and shows a concordance of all the instances of the word first from a selection of text. The list has been right-hand sorted so it is possible to see the most frequent collocates of first.

e runway and screeched to a halt. The first airport truck was there in seconds.
nomic orthodoxy.   I want to consider first an aspect of DIYE which I call "unre
 of 3 is 1. We don't know when it was first appreciated that the unit fraction, 
deepen my sorrow. I worship you as my first beginning; I long for you as my last
e galley putting things away when the first buzzers sounded. One of the hostesse
 3, to denote 3/5. A papyrus from the first century AD has the fraction in our m
vailable for use. For example, Varro (first century BC) mentions only 12 such fr
 also on Mr Howell, who himself has a First Class degree in Economics.   Both in
ction for the dollar - the unofficial first currency here. But the hijack is see
Gill, because she studied French as a first degree, didn't she?   [HK] Yes, she 
ht ESP before?   [RG] No, that was my first experience of teaching ESP. Fortunat
d so on, right up to 101. We show the first few entries in the radio notes in th
ive form. As Huelsenbeck wrote in the first German Dada manifesto of nineteen-ei
nd it'll certainly be many investors' first go at a share with a perk. Stockbrok
e, or tunnel, and out the other side. First, he thought, he must learn to contro
aelis scrambled to leave, and were at first held at the Ansar prison camp, which
at happens if they are sent back? The first hurdle is the road from the airport:
negotiator, Mr. Mick Murphy, said the first indications were that a clear majori
 five at tea, in reply to Australia's first innings' total of one hundred and se
ed and fifty-eight for three in their first innings, were fourteen without loss 
ibition of nineteen-twenty called the First International Dada Fair. Berlin was 
e photograph is a partial view of the First International Dada Fair. It's the ne
ows the cover of the catalogue of the First International Dada Fair. The credits
ic and reality is unusually wide. But first, it's worth stressing how the countr
you had a struggle yourself finding a first job, you may be all the more anxious
ars trickled down his cheeks with his first major victory. There were no such mo
 months.    Going to the shore on the first morning of the holiday, the young En
hurdles. And it is now developing the first national database of all the local i
ght. But you must promise two things. First of all you mustn't eat anyone: it's 
leven and a quarter per cent from the first of December, and the deposit and inc
nt against the almighty dollar on the first of November. The official reason was
d, led by Mr John Pollock, held their first one-day strike of the present campai
here in England: a handball goal, the first one in the meeting with England. But
 tell us how you were captured in the first place?   [change of speaker]   Well,
] And how did you get that job in the first place?   [HK] I saw an advertisement
age, which comes in two parts. In the first place, it points to the role of broa
s in the exhibition. Turn back to the First Plate. In this you can see suspended
political commitment. Turn now to the first Plate. The photograph is a partial v
ate ways of dealing with it.   On the first point, there's a chronic DIYE tenden
ench Enlightenment thought during the first quarter of the eighteenth century.  
 he was supported in this view by the first representatives of a school of Briti
nglish mathematician, Cayley, when he first saw the stroke in Stokes' papers, wr
xample, one third of 3 is obtained by first stating that two thirds of 3 is 2, a
e not done so already. It may be your first taste of shares, and it'll certainly
inals, and Steau Bucharest became the first team from Eastern Europe to win the 
nally, a disastrous match in the very first test at Headingly, a game which was 
t from very early days. They lost the first test heavily, then straight into the
heology had been little practised. At first, the French relied on translations o
'd make two responses to the critics: first, they're badly out of touch with fir
ether you'll get as much extra as you first thought. One figure, incidentally, y
ay. When I woke up in the morning, my first thought was: "I'm on holiday!" - and
ans carried off the World Cup for the first time (and in splendid style, too), w
 Americans on their home soil for the first time. Is that a pointer to next year
inning a test match at Lord's for the first time. Maybe, for you, the moments to
t know which Greek astronomer was the first to adopt the sexagesimal divisions, 
zers, George Barent says he'll be the first to lie down in front of them. His ac
y, and the new medium of collage. The first two were adapted from futurism. The 
Margolis plays Lillith, who is Adam's first wife according to the alphabet of Be
der. Maureen Lipman plays Eve, Adam's first wife according to the New Testament;
uble. Kirsty Wade of Wales became the first woman to take the 800 and the 1500, 
houted; each time 'Ceausescu' was the first word of the slogan. Much of the spee
ed by Germany until its defeat in the First World War (since when the territory 

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