Example sentences of "[num] [that] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeltsin announced at the meeting in Minsk on Dec. 30 that the first channel of Central Television would be given over to the Commonwealth , the second would be Russian , the third would be Moscow Television and the fourth would be an educational channel . |
| 2 | It was in 1913 that the first reference is made to the Luker family , proprietors of the Henley Standard , when on October 31st , Charles Luker was beaten on the 21st hole in the Ladies ' Cup semi-final . |
| 3 | Radio nationale congolaise announced on Nov. 23 that the first round of new legislative elections would take place on Dec. 30 and that Nov. 29 was the last date for candidacies to be filed . |
| 4 | The International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) confirmed on Nov. 15 that the first consignment of confiscated enriched uranium had been airlifted to the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | Lao National Radio reported on June 15 that the first phase of a campaign to organize discussions on the draft among cadres and individuals had " yielded good results " . |
| 6 | The western European had by 1880 begun to eat more wheaten bread , and more meat ( it was in 1878 that the first cargo of frozen meat was successfully landed in Europe ) and he was beginning , also , to consume more agricultural produce indirectly through industrial products which depended on animal or vegetable supplies . |
| 7 | It was not until the very end of 1905 that the first Party Congress was summoned and an official programme adopted , and the immediate sequel was the defection of splinter groups to left and right . |