Example sentences of "the first [noun pl] in [num] " in BNC.

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1 Seventeen years later , then Flight Lieutenant Reif , he flew as one of the first navigators in 2 Squadron Canberras when that unit deployed to South Vietnam in April 1967 .
2 This did not get under way until 1943 , took in the first students in 1944 and produced its first teachers in 1946 .
3 By the early 1640s she had moved to London and begun a religious quest in pursuit of whose ends she became involved with the first Quakers in 1654 .
4 In 1984 , the first SCE Standard grade courses started to replace O grades in Scotland , with the first examinations in 1986 .
5 The first attempts in 1953 were not very successful .
6 They suggested that the unified courses could be offered from 1983 , with the first exams in 1985 .
7 The first graduates in 1991 will earn such degrees as
8 The talks , hosted by the UN and held in San Lorenzo de El Escorial , 50 km from the Spanish capital Madrid , were the first negotiations in three decades of conflict .
9 However , their history , from the first appointments in 1839 , has been one of constant change and adaptation .
10 The metropolitan areas in England were contested on party lines from the first elections in 1973 .
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