Example sentences of "[num] and [art] first " in BNC.

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1 This seems to indicate that after a fairly steady climb and a certain standstill in the late 1880s , the numbers really took off in the late 1890s and the first decade of the twentieth century .
2 Filming in Belfast and in other parts of Ulster starts on April 12 and the first two weeks coincide with Kara 's Easter holidays .
3 Lam exhibitions have been mounted this month at The Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid ( until 14 December and then travelling to the Fundació Miró in Barcelona , 21 January–28 March , 1993 ) , the Villa Medici in Rome , the home of the French Academy ( until 24 January 1993 and the first show of the artist 's work in Italy ) and in New York .
4 Mobbs started work on the project in January 1971 ; in May 1972 the proposal was sent to the CNAA ; it was approved after a one-day visit in November 1972 and the first intake arrived in the autumn of 1973 .
5 He is the first western born challenger for the title since Bobby Fischer took the championship in 1972 and the first British player this century to be this close to the world title .
6 William lived on for a further 16 years after that , into the reign of George V and the First World War .
7 Canadian producers had faced higher interest rates than those of their US competitors and higher unit labour costs , which rose 15 per cent between 1985 and the first quarter of 1989 , compared with only 1 per cent in the USA for the same period .
8 The writings of Ada Nield Chew , a working-class feminist who , between 1894 and the First World War , wrote many newspaper articles on women 's issues and was hostile to the idea of family allowances , have recently been collected together in Ada Nield Chew : The Life and Writings of a Working Woman ( 1982 ) .
9 We had moved into the new factory in June 1979 and the first effect of our association with GEC was an input of capital to purchase badly needed equipment .
10 Adam Partridge , who 's nineteen and a first year Classics student at Christchurch College , supplied more than four thousand pounds worth of cannabis to his friends .
11 The theatre was very badly , damaged by the bombings of 1943 and the first of the city 's monuments to be rebuilt , when the original was faithfully recreated .
12 In E.coli or halophilic archaea Halobacterium cutirubrum , leader sequence before the 16S rRNA coding region can base-pair with sequence lying between 16S and the first spacer tRNA .
13 The quota was 8,907 and the first count gave Paisley 14,533 votes , a surplus of 5,626 .
14 The Chinese Eastern railway was completed in 1904 , and the Amur railway was developed between 1908 and the First World War .
15 IBM Personal Systems Business Unit Europe/Middle East/Africa says it had record volume of sales in the first quarter of this year , and points to Dataquest figures suggesting that it outshipped its nearest competitor by 66% during the last quarter of 1992 and the first quarter of 1993 — gaining 4% in market share over the previous six months ; the company also said it reorganised its manufacturing and distribution operations at its Greenock , Scotland , plant , cutting distribution costs for its ValuePoint and ThinkPad brands by more than 65% , cutting its inventory by 17% since the end of 1992 ; this magnitude of savings will also be realised for the PS/2 and PS/1 lines this year .
16 The latest GDP numbers implicitly assume that Britain 's total net trade deteriorated between the fourth quarter of 1992 and the first quarter of this year .
17 Overall , there was a fractional increase between the last three months of 1992 and the first quarter of this year , the second marginal quarterly rise in succession .
18 It 's based on Windows 3.0 and the first implementation supports the Informix relational database running on Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcsystems , NCR Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co HP 9000 , IBM Corp RS/6000 and Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix servers .
19 It was written during the latter part of 1913 and the first half of 1914 and for part of that time the author was travelling in Austria .
20 Is not it higher today than throughout the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s ?
21 RENFE 's deficit , for reasons discussed in other chapters , exploded during the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s .
22 An uncomfortable inner part appears , and at the same time an awkward leap across the strings between the last semiquaver of bar 4 and the first of bar 5 in the top part gives us pause .
23 He was educated at the Perse School , Cambridge , and won a scholarship to Pembroke College , Cambridge , where he received a first class in part i of the English tripos in 1928 and a first class with distinction in part ii in 1929 .
24 Clause 3.2 and the first part of cl 3.3 of Precedent 2 cover the same principles , but , as would obviously be preferred by the buyer , in cl 3.3 the procedures are more flexible , and the buyer 's rights are somewhat greater .
25 Base rate was on Sept. 22 further reduced to 9 per cent ( its lowest level since mid-1988 and the first time since 1981 that it stood below the German Lombard rate ) .
26 The collapse of the IMF system in March 1973 and the first oil price shock of 1973 – 74 resulted in the EC member countries abandoning the implementation of the Werner Plan .
27 In seeking to preserve landscapes of natural beauty and historic interest , the Trust can never ignore change , whether it be slow and imperceptible , as with climatic developments , or sudden and dramatic , as with the freak storms which swept the country in October 1987 and the first two months of last year .
28 When the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 and the first killings began , one might have expected these siren voices calling for a third way to fall silent .
29 The first race at Brooklands was in July 1907 and the first British Grand Prix ( then known as the RAC Grand Prix ) was held at Brooklands in 1926 and won by Robert Senechal and Louis Wagner in a Delage at an average speed of 115.22 kph ( 71.61 mph ) .
30 The theoretical aspects were formulated in the mid-1940s and the first dates were published in December 1949 .
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