Example sentences of "took place [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His funeral took place during the First Test at Trent Bridge , with South Africa the tourists : play was halted as a tribute to the man whose valet helped him to contrive county cricket 's most amazing victory . |
| 2 | The Bramham Three Day Event took place for the first time in 1974 . |
| 3 | The prestigious event , at which leading scientists discuss global environment , took place for the first time this year , in Rio de Janeiro . |
| 4 | The first of these would imply that Scaevola regarded the trust clause as ineffective ; the second that it was effective but limited to legal events which took place before the first will . |
| 5 | Further modifications and addenda took place in the first half of the twentieth century . |
| 6 | The first major privatization debate ( as we would now call it ) in this country took place in the first decade of this century . |
| 7 | The work mostly took place in the first year base , which was described as : " a large hall and four small rooms each capable of taking a group of twenty . |