Example sentences of "[noun] first [verb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 5 kilometre long footpath/cycleway begins at the old Livingston village close to the Kirk of Livingston which was rebuilt in 1732 on a site first consecrated in the 12th century . |
| 2 | The new building was an Anglian settlement , the name first recorded in the 10th century . |
| 3 | Though other , and earlier , examples are known , the term is normally employed for a typically English technique first evolved in the seventeenth century but not fully developed till the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 4 | Solicitors first appeared in the fifteenth century . |
| 5 | The company first emerged in the Second World War , supplying electrical components for the RAF , and much of its advanced scientific work for the Ministry of Defence in ‘ Electronic Systems ’ remained ( like that of very many Defence suppliers ) in the South , co-ordinated from national headquarters in Ilford ( Greater London ) . |