Example sentences of "that [noun sg] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , facing probably the biggest crisis in its history now that it is confronted with an administration not prepared to pour ever more good taxpayers ' money after bad ( CI No 2,166 ) , yesterday reported that turnover for the first quarter of the year crashed by 10.6% , to the equivalent of $943m ; sales slumped 16.5% to $422m and rentals and services fell 5.1% to $521m . |
| 2 | And now facing probably the biggest crisis in its history , Bull last week reported that turnover for the first quarter of the year crashed by 10.6% , to the equivalent of $943m . |
| 3 | But I mean they were banging they were banging fifteen hundred in for that disco for the first |
| 4 | Having listened to most of that stuff for the first time in seven years yesterday , most of it is pretty embarrassing . |
| 5 | On Dec. 23 two Palestinians were shot dead and more than 40 injured during fresh unrest in the Gaza Strip , the borders of which had been opened that day for the first time since the abduction of Toledano . |
| 6 | At the same election the Republicans gained twelve seats in the Senate and won control of that chamber for the first time in twenty-five years . |
| 7 | He took in that fact for the first time ; in spite of his knowing job , he had a clownish naîveté about fate and always tended to be innocent of the possibility of calamity . |