Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned down offers of partnership with the Peels and Arkwrights , and in 1790 erected the first steam-powered mill in Stockport , during a boom period . |
| 2 | On 18 January 1948 , car 10 became the first modern car in regular service on the Marton route , fitted with upholstered seats and fluorescent lighting . |
| 3 | The Pecora hearings in the US Congress in 1933–34 produced the first real condemnation of insider dealing . |
| 4 | His son George [ q.v. ] was secretary to David Hartley MP and at twenty-eight became the first British resident minister in Washington , USA ( 1791–5 ) , and was later under-secretary for foreign affairs . |
| 5 | Turkish fortunes began to decline after the raising of the second siege of Vienna ( 1683 ) , and the Treaty of Karlovci ( Carlowitz ) in 1699 recorded the first major Ottoman defeat and the beginning of the slow retreat of the Turks from Europe . |
| 6 | The presidential election of 1952 saw the first large-scale hiring of skilled advertising men to do the politicians ' persuading for them . |
| 7 | Resistance to his rule increased inside South Vietnam ; and in 1958 came the first ominous trickle of men and weapons from North Vietnam . |
| 8 | Many kings in the past have kept collections of animals and in the 12th Century A.D. King Henry I founded the first British zoo . |
| 9 | Annual gate receipts rose during the period from £1,55 to £5,309 , and 1912 saw the first four-figure profit — just over £1,000 . |
| 10 | 1914 saw the first axiomatic declaration of exactly what constitutes a ring . |
| 11 | Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act 1934 represented the first legislative attempt in the US to curb some of the dangers associated with insider trading . |
| 12 | ‘ But in 1973 came the first major oil shock . |
| 13 | Emperor Akihito on Oct. 23 became the first Japanese monarch to visit China , and the highest-ranking foreigner to visit China since the 1989 suppression of the pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square . |
| 14 | 1931 saw the first Old Stopfordians ' Annual Dinner actually to be held in School ( the Association had been renamed , reviving one of the old forms of the name of the town , in 1927 ) . |
| 15 | In 1902 he was transferred to Dehra Dun , and in 1905 became the first imperial mycologist at the new agricultural research station at Pusa . |
| 16 | At seven came the first allied setback . |
| 17 | France took steps to increase trade when Dominique Strauss-Kahn , Minister-Delegate for Trade and Industry , on Sept. 19 began the first ministerial visit to South Africa since 1975 . |
| 18 | While all the local authority construction of the 1940s was of very high quality for general needs , the late 1950s saw the first non-traditional units in the form of Wimpey 's point blocks built at Hunters and Murrays Closes in Percy Main . |