Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Pat Taylor , of Prestatyn , was one of 100 women nominated to attend the first North Wales Woman of the Year lunch , at the Kinmel Manor Hotel , Abergele , which raised £10,000 for the work of the children 's charity , Barnardos , in Wales . |
| 2 | Jackson 's 1957 paper had made the first study of muon catalysed fusion in mixtures of deuterium and tritium but had concluded that there too the energy return did not offer much practical hope . |
| 3 | When they moved into this house in January 1945 Edie began writing the first of two consecutive five-year diaries . |
| 4 | Over half a million people have watched the first two Tests and two things are immediately obvious . |
| 5 | Although in 1927 Barbusse had attended the First Congress of Proletarian Writers held in Moscow , and although he had appeared to voice support for the new policy of subordinating the literary process to the construction of socialism , his actual writing practice was completely out of step with the doctrinaire ideas of RAPP . |
| 6 | Keeping an eye on the colony over the next fortnight I saw that another half-dozen polyps had followed the first . |