Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the first in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was one of the first in the battered political hierarchy to head for Moscow voluntarily for negotiations with Brezhnev . |
| 2 | OPPOSITE LEFT : Days Mill , in Nailsworth , was one of the first in the area to have power looms installed in a specially built loom shed . |
| 3 | The road through it to Exeter was always a busy and important highway , and the Honiton Turnpike Trust , set up in 1753 , was one of the first in Devon . |
| 4 | Vicente Gomes da Silva , born on 12 March 1827 , was the first commercial photographer in Madeira and one of the first in Portugal . |
| 5 | A banner group was started 10 years ago in QP , probably one of the first in Scotland . |
| 6 | At Disney 's MGM studios , 16-year-old Theresa Powell was one of the first in line to meet the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles . |
| 7 | The girl was one of the first in the country to use new powers granted to minors under the Children 's Act to apply to the courts for permission to live where they wanted to . |
| 8 | This was Bogart 's seventeenth film ( The Petrified Forest had been his eleventh ) and one of the first in which he gave some indication of his range . |
| 9 | Gillard even considers that the hospital was in the vanguard of therapeutic optimism in the 1950s , ‘ being one of the first in the country to pull down the perimeter wall and unlock the wards , encouraging patients to mix freely ’ . |
| 10 | The farm was one of the first in Britain to join the Countryside Commission 's demonstration farms project . |
| 11 | In the Sixties Galerie der Spiegel was one of the first in Cologne to show Americans such as Rauschenberg , Motherwell , Lichtenstein , the émigré Josef Albers , and Christo , as well as the European New Realists , Spoerri , Armand and Yves Klein . |
| 12 | This poem , written in free verse , was one of the first in which Apollinaire eliminated punctuation , and was composed of seemingly disconnected , partially self-sufficient phrases and ideas , which by their placing and interaction serve to evoke both form and atmosphere . |
| 13 | MERSEYSIDE solicitors Goldsmith Williams is one of the first in the country to gain BS5750 quality assurance status . |