Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [noun sg] [vb past] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Computer Horizons Corp saw first quarter net profit up 10.9% at $858,000 , on sales up 21.1% to $29.4m . |
| 2 | Yet it was able to produce a score sheet which showed that out of a possible score of 100 , the Peoples Solidarity Party came first with 43.90 , followed by the Nigerian National Congress ( 42.62 ) , the Peoples Front of Nigeria ( 41.20 ) and the Liberal Convention ( 34.08 ) . |
| 3 | ALC Communications Corp saw first quarter net up 558.2% at $21.5m , after $13.5m gains from the cumulative effect of an accounting change this time and $1.3m tax credits last time , on sales up 10.6% to $101.8m . |
| 4 | IDB Communications Group saw first quarter net profit up 237.2% at $4.4m , on turnover up 121.5% to $64.4m . |
| 5 | If this resulted from a positive proposal to shut down the unit it could not lawfully have been brought about unless the district health authority had first consulted the community health council . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Saltburn-based Middleton Singers and Middleton Festival Choir came first in every class they entered . |
| 8 | Brandon Systems Corp saw first quarter net profit up 5.1% at $737,000 , on sales up 31.5% to $13.2m . |
| 9 | WINNERS OF THE FABER-CASTELL MINIATURE GARDEN DRAWING COMPETITION LEFT First prize of a presentation set of 100 Polychromos coloured pencils and 100 Polychromos pastels , goes to Trevor Hodgkinson from Derbyshire for his Garden Shadows |
| 10 | A police motor-cyclist arrived first . |
| 11 | Structural Dynamics Research Corp saw first quarter net profit down 39.6% at $2.9m , on turnover rise 2.9% to $39.1m . |
| 12 | Out of ten quickwitted siblings , big brother Keenan Ivory emerged first to test his home-grown humour in the real world , co-writing the industry parody Hollywood Shuffle and creating the ultrahip , irreverent US TV series In Living Color ( a kind of blacker and ruder Saturday Night Live , shown here on BskyB ) . |
| 13 | The Channel Tunnel project had first been seriously mooted at the start of the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | Although in chronological terms the Black Scholes option pricing model came first in 1973 , the binomial analyses developed by Cox , Ross and Rubinstein and Rendleman and Bartter provide a conceptually easier introduction to the problem of valuation . |