Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Germany just after the First World War , for example , working class organisations were so far removed from both the objective interests of the class and the concern of its members that they were incapable of seizing the revolutionary opportunities open to them . |
| 2 | had staged the epochal exhibition ‘ Manet and the Post-Impressionists ’ at the Grafton Gallery , when the work of Paul Cézanne , Gauguin , and Vincent Van Gogh was seen in England virtually for the first time . |
| 3 | Set in Austria just before the First World War the play revolves around Josephea , proprietress of the inn ; Leopold , the head waiter ; several well-to-do local businessmen and the Emperor of Austria who comes to stay at the Inn at the start of the shooting season . |
| 4 | The company actually sold five million dollars worth of ‘ green ’ products in Ontario alone during the first month . |
| 5 | This explains very clearly why Matilda is far and away the most popular children 's book I have written and was bought by over half a million children in Britain alone in the first six months . |
| 6 | Radio started in Europe shortly after the First World War , and the BBC began broadcasting in 1922 . |
| 7 | The following example of horse jading happened in Suffolk just after the First World War . |