Example sentences of "the first [adj] [noun] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first six months this sample was of 106 reports . |
| 2 | Italtel SpA is to install around 400,000 lines for Telecom Argentina SA over the next three years in a deal worth $600m : it says it will install the first 58,000 lines this year and the rest of them by 1996 |
| 3 | In the United States , however , the rise in import penetration , all of which occurred in the 1960s , represented the first serious incursion this century by imported manufactured goods . |
| 4 | But although Mansell has won the first four races this season , he 's trying not to be over-confident about making it five . |
| 5 | He is the first western born challenger for the title since Bobby Fischer took the championship in 1972 and the first British player this century to be this close to the world title . |