Example sentences of "in the [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The biggest single leap in information technology , however , was the development in the 1960's of the first ‘ integrated circuits ’ ( IC 's ) in the United States . |
| 2 | He knew the power and the reality of the Holy Spirit in the church of his day , when he wrote in the 60s of the first century . |
| 3 | The average family pays nearly £2,000 a year in interest on debts and mortgages , but last year we ran our household budgets in the black for the first time since the mid-Eighties — and managed to tuck away £10.6 billion in savings . |
| 4 | We revolutionized the air-intercept missile business in the 1950s with the first radar-guided air-to-air missile . |
| 5 | So far its class-based line has been almost exclusively animated by a critique of race awareness training — a practical strategy which has been thrown up in the grating between the first two tendencies . |
| 6 | The 100 ton engine and tender set a record in the 1930's as the first steam loco to clock 100 miles an hour . |