Example sentences of "he gave the first " in BNC.

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1 Before he was 19 , Gauss had constructed , by straightedge and compass , a regular 17-gon , the first " new " constructible regular polygon for 2000 years , and in 1799 he gave the first satisfactory proof ( where Newton , Euler and Lagrange had failed ) of the fundamental theorem of algebra ( 4.8.1 ) .
2 Then for his doctoral thesis ( 1799 ) he gave the first ever proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra ( Section 4.8 ) .
3 In 1870 he gave the first authentic account of amoebae from the human intestine .
4 Now that okay no problems there , second and third but look at this , he gave the first second and third and they did n't even have a handicap .
5 One of the first bits of advice he gave the First Church was , ‘ Bend the knee , but not unwisely . ’
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