Example sentences of "last [noun sg] [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A HUNGARIAN shot putter last night became the first Paralympic Games competitor to fail a drugs test . |
| 2 | THE novelist VS Naipaul last night became the first winner of Britain 's biggest literary prize , worth £30,000 . |
| 3 | LABOUR LEADERS last night suffered the first setback of the Brighton conference when delegates overwhelmingly rejected pleas for unity by demanding heavy cuts in defence spending . |
| 4 | Hewlett-Packard Co last week launched the first interconnect board under its February agreement with IBM Corp under which the two committed to adapting fibre optic interconnection boards for linking computers to peripherals and computers to computers developed by IBM for the AS/400 and RS/6000 to meet the ANSI Fibre Channel standard . |
| 5 | Somalia is disintegrating into anarchy : Richard Dowden last week became the first outsider to visit the parts of Somalia controlled by anti-government guerrillas . |
| 6 | A man of 65 , from Bristol , last week became the first British patient to benefit from the technique , known as rotational angioplasty . |
| 7 | Little known UK company , White Cross Systems Ltd , Bracknell , Berkshire , last week introduced the first in a family of Transputer-based parallel servers , the White Cross IDS 9010 . |
| 8 | The Cetia SA subsidiary of Thomson-CSF SA , which specialises in VME workstations and processor boards for real-time applications , last week introduced the first computers based on the IBM Corp-Motorola Inc PowerPC 601 microprocessor . |
| 9 | It carries one of the largest selections of English language titles in France , and last year extended the first floor with a showroom for ELT materials . |
| 10 | ‘ Last year saw the first Pro-am pairs competition which proved so popular with the riders . |