Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also became the first government since 1974 to serve a full four-year term ; a general election was due in October 1991 . |
| 2 | It also saw the first major electoral success for Labour : twenty-nine Labour and Lib-Lab members were returned . |
| 3 | It also established the first Crofters Commission as a permanent body empowered to fix fair rents and administer crofting legislation . |
| 4 | Other countries soon welcomed the breed , including several in South America and southern Africa , and it later became the first foreign breed to be imported by Japan . |
| 5 | It publicly demonstrated the first NT/SMP version running on a 16-processor Symmetry back in August to help Microsoft allay reports that NT 's SMP capabilities are severely limited and would require heavy re-architecting . |