Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They include testimony from one witness who recalls dumping buckets of waste from the Manhattan Project , during work to produce the first atomic bomb in the early 1940s .
2 In addition , a massive development programme is under way to produce the first large , LCD HDTV screens .
3 The ploy worked and from its modest slot around 4.30 on Sunday afternoons Pathfinders in Space attracted the first real family audience for a science fiction serial .
4 In order to achieve the First Five-Year Plan , figures worked out at that moment estimated that the manpower necessary for attaining the production goals at 4.1 million workers and employees ( i.e. an increase of 1 million or 33% ) .
5 IN MARCH , Wood Group ESP was awarded its biggest international contract to date to supply the first large-scale utilisation of electric submersible pump systems to Saudi ARAMCO .
6 On 5 September 1818 , James Hamilton , grocer extraordinaire and showman by nature gave the first public commercial showing of the new ‘ light-brackets ’ by installing ‘ sex jetties ’ , or six of the ‘ wee lights ‘ , as we might say today .
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