Example sentences of "marked the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added that the decision marked the first nationalisation under a Thatcher government . |
| 2 | The shift from family ownership to full stockmarket-listings marked the first time when the owners of American firms ceased to manage them . |
| 3 | Only a day after reporting the second year of falling personal computer sales ( CI No 2,157 ) , the Japan Electronic Industry Development Association says that Japanese manufacturers ' shipments of personal computers jumped 6.2% in unit terms during the January to March quarter from a year earlier , and the rise in combined exports and domestic sales to 688,000 units from 648,000 units in the year-earlier quarter marked the first quarterly rise in two years ; exports rocketed 31% to 144,000 units but domestic shipments only inched up 1.1% to 544,000 units , but was still the first quarterly increase in two-and-a-half years ; because of the price wars , combined export and domestic shipments of made-in-Japan micros — when measured in currency terms , fell 8.3% — exports and home sales each off 8% . |
| 4 | She welcomes discomfort , counts hostile situations and relishes third world countries , for she is driven by her life long ambition to be a travel photographer and this trip marked the first rung on the ladder . |
| 5 | Finally we crossed a low pass and descended into the wide depression of the oasis where straggling clumps of trees and patchy cultivation marked the first springs . |
| 6 | She welcomes discomfort , counts hostile situations and relishes third world countries , for she is drive by her life long ambition to be a travel photographer and this trip marked the first rung on the ladder . |
| 7 | All major opposition parties voted for the bills , whose adoption marked the first time since 1945 that an opposition bill had been passed in the Upper House . |
| 8 | An all-night vigil on April 8-9 followed by a demonstration by at least 60,000 people in Tbilisi , the Georgian capital , marked the first anniversary of the violent suppression by Soviet troops of a peaceful nationalist demonstration in which 20 demonstrators had been killed [ see pp. 36592-93 ; 36661 ; 36743 ; 36899 ] . |
| 9 | Although it had held power in several of Canada 's western provinces , however , the Ontario result marked the first occasion upon which the party had won a provincial election east of Manitoba . |
| 10 | Shinto 's resignation from NTT in December 1988 had marked the first major development in the Recruit affair , a scandal which had involved the purchase of influence by Recruit chairman Hiromasa Ezoe , in return for the provision of cheap pre-flotation shares in a Recruit subsidiary to leading figures within of the country 's political , administrative and economic spheres . |
| 11 | The removal of price subsidies on many basic goods and utilities , with effect from Feb. 1 , marked the first stage of Bulgaria 's major market economic reforms . |
| 12 | July 1 , the date of the introduction of new tax increases [ see pp. 38297-98 ] , marked the first anniversary of the introduction of the deutsche mark in East Germany [ see p. 37660 ] . |
| 13 | The completion of the draft marked the first substantive development on the issue , under negotiation by the 39 participating countries since 1968 . |
| 14 | The newspaper story marked the first occasion on which the media had given coverage to the longstanding allegation of Bush 's infidelity . |
| 15 | The Eighth National Conference of the Young Communist League , held at Bermondsey in February 1936 , marked the first serious attempt to broaden the appeal of the YCL . |
| 16 | Navratilova 's exit marked the first time no American woman had reached the quarter-finals of the US Open since women began playing in the tournament in 1887 . |
| 17 | However , Saturday 's setback at Celtic Park marked the first time in a year Goram had been in a losing Rangers team ( he was injured when Dundee won at Dens Park in August ) , and the assured nature of his performances at domestic , European and international level have helped gather an army of voters who could make the goalkeeper the first since Hamish McAlpine ( in 1985 ) to win the Scottish Football Writers ' Association Player of the Year award . |