Example sentences of "[verb] out its first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been 169 executions in US states since the death penalty was restored by the Supreme Court in 1976 , most of them in conservative Southern states , but on April 6 Arizona had carried out its first execution for 29 years , while in March the first execution in Delaware since 1946 had been implemented . |
| 2 | Milton 's Poems 1645 which includes works such as Lycidas took over twenty years to sell out its first edition , which , at best , was something of the order of 1500 copies and more likely to have been much less , probably a few hundred . |
| 3 | Electronic News hears that Stratus Computer Inc is readying new Intel Corp i860-based fault tolerant systems for introduction later in the year : Stratus currently offers two uniprocessor machines , and will likely bring out its first multi-processor , based on the faster i860XP part . |
| 4 | In spite of its success — the book quickly sold out its first edition of 60,000 — Laura dreaded the thought of another book which failed to represent the company as she saw it . |
| 5 | Following the meeting a US military excavation team carried out its first MIA search in Cambodia ; it announced on March 23 that it had recently unearthed some remains which were believed to be of members of US television crews killed in Cambodia in 1970 . |
| 6 | But most importantly , once the strike had lasted out its first week , a large number of businessmen and middle-class professionals tacitly co-operated with the strikers in return for being able to pursue some of their normal business . |