Example sentences of "in [adj] the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1924 the First Labour Government devoted much effort to restoring normal relations with the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | In 1904 the first Pan-Presbyterian Council was held and in 1905 the Baptist World Alliance was formed at Exeter Hall . |
| 3 | In 1917 the First German Association of Large Families was founded and at least two active pro-natalist organisations were established . |
| 4 | ( 3 ) In 1902 the first major science fiction film was made , in France : the twenty-one-minute silent A Trip to the Moon , by George Méliès . |
| 5 | In 1981 the first large timeshare complex opened at Langdale , helped by a tourist board grant . |
| 6 | In 1970 the first Congressional reform bill for more than two decades was passed — the Legislative Reorganization Act . |
| 7 | In the early 19th century shopkeepers began offering free gifts as an inducement to trade , while in 1844 the first co-operative dividend scheme was introduced . |
| 8 | In 1966 the first international taekwondo federation was formed . |
| 9 | In 1832 the first parliamentary reform bill was passed and Dundee was one of the new constituencies created by the Act . |
| 10 | The Eugenics Society set up in 1926 the first medical study on contraceptive experience , which reported benefits to health . |
| 11 | In 1907 the first Egyptian Nationalist Congress met . |
| 12 | Originally it was taught privately , but in 1936 the first local education authority classes commenced in Essex . |
| 13 | In 1965 the first advanced gas cooled reactor , Dungeness B , was ordered . |
| 14 | Formed in 1868 the first English club North of York the Bankers are the only club in continuous , 102 year Northern League membership . |
| 15 | In 1956 the first recorded questioning of the bondholders ' status occurs , paradoxically as the interest payments on bonds are resumed . |
| 16 | In 1915 the first major demonstration of the war had taken place in Berlin , when five hundred housewives protested before the Reichstag that the quality of whipped cream was not up to pre-1914 standards . |