Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | IDB Communications Group saw first quarter net profit up 237.2% at $4.4m , on turnover up 121.5% to $64.4m . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | The Channel Tunnel project had first been seriously mooted at the start of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | 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 . |