Example sentences of "the first in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | H. Gustav Klaus , an admirer of Ashraf , has produced two relevant studies , the first in 1981 comparing Stephen Duck and Mary Collier , and the second in 1985 entitled The Literature of Labour : Two Hundred Years of Working-Class Writing . |
| 2 | To take a team from the Fourth to the First in six years is n't bad going whatever style of football you play . ’ |
| 3 | The following century the Greek system of dating by successive Olympiads from the first in 776 BC was begun , either by the historian Timaeus of Sicily or by Eratosthenes , the famous librarian of the Museum in Alexandria and measurer of the earth , and later Greek chronology was based upon it . |
| 4 | President Yoweri Museveni on Oct. 15 ended a three-day state visit to India , the first in 11 years . |
| 5 | Now she 's been made Head Girl ; the first in 450 years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Two scrutinies , in particular , were crucially important : the first in 1979 led to the decision to implement a management information system for ministers ( MINIS ) in the Department of the Environment ( DOE ) . |
| 8 | With the onslaught of the Phylloxera crisis , peaking in the 1880s , American resistant hybrid vines were imported , the first in 1873 by Thomas Slapp Leacock . |
| 9 | It will be the 50th Irish match at this venue since the first in 1868 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Sixteen years and one month later , Bunny Johnson became the fourth black boxer to win a Lonsdale Belt , the most coveted award in British boxing ( Randolph Turpin was the first in 1956 , Bunny Sterling the second in 1973 , Maurice Hope the third in 1976 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mika Enberg , ICL 's TeamWare product marketing manager says ICL began seeking US partners three months ago and hopes to sign the first in three or four months . |
| 14 | [ For third congress in February 1986 see p. 34230 ; the second congress had been in 1980 — see p. 30817 — and the first in 1975 — see p. 27595 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Great Western , whose rich agricultural heartland was providing an increasing volume of the capital 's milk , opened a special milk halt at Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire and constructed special milk platforms at Paddington , the first in 1881 . |
| 17 | The Australian geologist Douglas Mawson discovered the first in 1912 when he spotted a black stony meteorite in the snow near the coast of Adelie Land ( Figure 1 ) . |