Example sentences of "[num] [pron] [verb] the first of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1859 he built the first of his 2–2–2 type express locomotives , two of which took part in the railway ‘ race ’ between east- and west-coast companies from London to Edinburgh in 1888 , and in 1863 he developed the 2–4–0 type for use over more heavily graded routes . |
| 2 | In 1922 it planned the first of a series of national hunger marches which were to become the NUWCM 's principal contribution to the inter-war years . |
| 3 | In 1981 he launched the first of a series of closely watched consumer surveys . |
| 4 | He broke new ground in musical humour when in 1956 he organized the first of a series of concerts of symphonic caricature at which new music , some of it by respected composers like Malcolm Arnold , was played on ludicrous instruments or to the accompaniment of vacuum cleaners or road rammers . |
| 5 | In 1890 he published the first of his two major textbooks , Theory of Light , followed by Theory of Heat in 1894 . |