Example sentences of "we were [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have always in Czechoslovakia been proud of being Europeans , as we were before the First World War and between the wars . |
| 2 | We were in the First Division far too fleetingly and this is an opportunity for everyone to show what a big club Portsmouth really are . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , we did a lot of the soundtracks and we were in the first four or five . |
| 4 | We might get a thousand or so more from Hartlepool but if we were in the First Division we 'd struggle to get 7,000 . |
| 5 | Absolutely , I would think they 're the three heroes erm Les Phillips in midfield was back to the Les Phillips we knew when he first came to Oxford from Birmingham when we were in the first division . |