Example sentences of "the first in [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To take a team from the Fourth to the First in six years is n't bad going whatever style of football you play . ’ |
| 2 | President Yoweri Museveni on Oct. 15 ended a three-day state visit to India , the first in 11 years . |
| 3 | Now she 's been made Head Girl ; the first in 450 years . |
| 4 | Colin Allister set up both goals , the first in 14 minutes converted by McGladdery , and the second just 30 seconds from time by schoolboy Lee Tumilty . |
| 5 | Two state-commissioned reports , described by Yeltsin in his Oct. 6 speech to the Supreme Soviet as the first in 70 years to contain " nothing but the truth " about the nation 's health and the state of the environment , were unveiled at a press conference on Oct. 7 . |
| 6 | CADW , the organisation responsible for historic monuments in Wales , is to carry out a new survey of listed buildings in Holyhead the first in 43 years . |
| 7 | The first in ten minutes , was a blatant error by the officials Neil Williams was well on-side when he picked up a pass before scoring . |