Example sentences of "led [prep] the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in 1851 that the Great Northern Railway established its locomotive works in Doncaster , and twelve years later the amalgamation of a number of railway companies led to the first regional monopoly , the North Eastern Railway , this business being engineered mainly by George Hudson , the ‘ Railway King ’ . |
| 2 | The impact of the oil crisis and its associated inflation led to the first actual decline in income for OECD countries for over a quarter of a century . |
| 3 | An idea of the complexity of this process can be gauged from the events which led to the first successful casting of iron cannon in Sussex , at Buxted in 1543 . |
| 4 | Her enterprise " led to the first Deaf Choir Festival which was held in St. Barnabas Church , Oxford , in 1976 . |
| 5 | It has reached that level in half a century , for 50 years ago today the experiment was begun which led to the first recorded observation of this polymer . |
| 6 | This ambiguous situation led to the first English clash with Spain . |
| 7 | A quarrel between Corcyra , a daughter-city of Corinth , and Epidamnos , a daughter-city of Corcyra herself , led to the first open clash , the battle of Sybota , between Athenian and Peloponnesian League ships ( 433 ) : Epidamnos had appealed over the head of Corcyra to the ‘ grandmother ’ Corinth , while Corcyra asked for , and got , help from Athens . |