Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopkinton , Massachusetts-based EMC Corp reported first quarter net profit more than twice what they were in the year-ago period — figures , page five — and says that demand for the Symmetrix 5500 series disk arrays has been greater than the company expected , so that it has had to increase the build plan for the remainder of the year . |
| 2 | The car started first time for Volkov . |
| 3 | The local Rathfriland club took first place in the club team category . |
| 4 | The £6,697 vehicle shared first place with the Volkswagen Polo deisel in a list by the Environmental Transport Association . |
| 5 | The engine caught first time . |
| 6 | The engine started first time and the car shot away down the dirt road , but he could not prevent the leading coolie from leaping onto the running board beside the driver 's door . |
| 7 | ‘ We are assuming the Queen chose first class . ’ |
| 8 | A SHEEP that behaves like a hound won first prize for fence-jumping at the Kent Dog Show . |
| 9 | The proposed date of entry is November 1988 , still feasible because the developer continued with early work because , although the Council had first option on the new building , there were other potential clients also . |
| 10 | The Auditing Practices Board 's The Future Development of Auditing suggested first steps in this direction . |
| 11 | IDB Communications Group saw first quarter net profit up 237.2% at $4.4m , on turnover up 121.5% to $64.4m . |
| 12 | senior lecturer at Thanet Technical College in Kent , whose team won first prize in the 1992 competition , says that he has used Toque d'Or as a classroom exercise involving the whole group , not just the team who entered . |
| 13 | Reed chairman Peter Davis commented : ‘ In May 1991 I explained that our existing publishing and information business had first priority so far as further investment was concerned and that we had decided not to join our partners in putting more funds into BSkyB . |
| 14 | celebrated 100 years at the Suffolk Show in May and to top the occasion collected first prize for the most attractive non-machinery agricultural stand at the show . |
| 15 | The collector then donated them to three American museums : the Museum of Modern Art had first choice , and took forty-three ; the Art Institute of Chicago then selected thirty-eight ; and the rest went to the Denver Art Museum . |
| 16 | Father took first bullet |
| 17 | It is no coincidence that mass schooling was invented at roughly the time when nation states had come into existence and the need arose to instil in their citizens the idea that the new entity had first claim on their loyalties . |
| 18 | Despite an unfavourable trap 4 draw the Dave Connor-trained dog missed first bend trouble , leading at the third to score by 4 7 lengths in 28.85 secs . |
| 19 | A Tommy Williams double gained first division Oyster a 2-1 home victory over premier division Britannia , and Whitestock Derby had a hat-trick star in Neil Sheridan when they won 3-2 at Halewood Labour . |
| 20 | He was delighted when his giant vegetable took first prize in the pumpkin section at the Newdigate Horticultural Show in Surrey . |
| 21 | Microsemi Corp saw first quarter net profit down 15.9% at $248,000 , on sales up 56% to $30.5m . |
| 22 | Intel Corp saw first quarter net profit soar 197.7% at $547.9m on turnover 63.0% ahead at $2,023.5m . |
| 23 | Corel Corp saw first quarter net profit down 5% at $1.2m , after $304,313 losses from discontinued operations last time , on turnover that rose 55.7% to $16.6m . |
| 24 | Chipcom Corp saw first quarter net profit up 85.6% at $3.4m , after $723,000 gains from the cumulative effect of an accounting change , on sales up 84.8% to $30.6m . |
| 25 | Brandon Systems Corp saw first quarter net profit up 5.1% at $737,000 , on sales up 31.5% to $13.2m . |
| 26 | Inacom Corp saw first quarter net profit up 74% at $3m , after $229,000 gains from the cumulative effect of an accounting change , on turnover that rose 35.5% to $331.3m . |
| 27 | Convex Computer Corp saw first quarter net profits crash 88.6% to $46,000 on sales up 8.5% to $59.1m . |
| 28 | Computer Horizons Corp saw first quarter net profit up 10.9% at $858,000 , on sales up 21.1% to $29.4m . |
| 29 | Structural Dynamics Research Corp saw first quarter net profit down 39.6% at $2.9m , on turnover rise 2.9% to $39.1m . |
| 30 | Davox Corp saw first quarter net profit of $215,778 against losses of $754,107 last time , on sales down 4.8% to $8.2m . |