Example sentences of "[prep] the first [noun pl] in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seventeen years later , then Flight Lieutenant Reif , he flew as one of the first navigators in 2 Squadron Canberras when that unit deployed to South Vietnam in April 1967 . |
| 2 | In 1984 , the first SCE Standard grade courses started to replace O grades in Scotland , with the first examinations in 1986 . |
| 3 | They suggested that the unified courses could be offered from 1983 , with the first exams in 1985 . |
| 4 | By the early 1640s she had moved to London and begun a religious quest in pursuit of whose ends she became involved with the first Quakers in 1654 . |
| 5 | However , their history , from the first appointments in 1839 , has been one of constant change and adaptation . |
| 6 | The metropolitan areas in England were contested on party lines from the first elections in 1973 . |
| 7 | This did not get under way until 1943 , took in the first students in 1944 and produced its first teachers in 1946 . |