Example sentences of "[num] [art] [noun] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the early 1890s the LCC built the first large modern housing estates in the country . |
| 2 | In the autumn of 1929 the USSR became the first state to break the illusions created by the Kellogg-Briand pact by unleashing its Special Far Eastern Army upon the Manchurian nationalists , who rashly thought they could put an end to Soviet control of the Chinese Eastern Railway . |
| 3 | On March 7 the Iraqis released the first 1,000 of the Kuwaitis taken prisoner at the end of the Iraqi occupation , the total number of those abducted being given as some 7,000 . |
| 4 | At the end of 1992 the company installed the first 1,000-number exchange in Ekaterinburg , which was assembled at the local Ural Electromechanical plant . |
| 5 | In mid-February 1990 the Powers announced that German flights to Berlin would also be allowed and on Aug. 5 a plane made the first Lufthansa flight to a Berlin airport since 1945 landing at Schönefeld airport ( on the outskirts of East Berlin ) . |
| 6 | And in 1923 the company made the first published record by a reigning British monarch , King George V and Queen Mary 's ‘ Empire Day Message to the Boys and Girls of the British Empire ’ ( 34 ) . |
| 7 | In 1882 the Legislature took the first of these courses . |