Example sentences of "and [prep] [adj] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such plants , together with primitive mosses and liverworts , formed green tangled carpets , miniature forests that spread inland from the edges of estuaries and rivers , and into these the first animal colonists crept from the sea . |
| 2 | Calls for citizen participation in planning encouraged groups to undertake practical work , and in 1974 the first self-help General Improvement Area was completed , at Black Road , Macclesfield . |
| 3 | In 1759 Arthur Guinness founded his brewery at the St. James 's Gate site in Dublin and in 1769 the first export shipment took place . |
| 4 | Licences were readily available and in 1961 the first chips were available commercially . |
| 5 | In 1852 he became the first Moderator of the new Presbytery of Otago Province and in 1869 the first Chancellor of the University of Otago . |
| 6 | By 1980 , market-related interest rates were payable on ‘ retail ’ time deposits and in 1983 the first ‘ high-interest cheque accounts ’ appeared , offering market interest rates on what were in effect sight deposits subject to a high minimum credit balance . |
| 7 | And in 1942 the first major bombings of German cities were carried out by allied air flotillas , and as the Luftwaffe lost control of the skies many Germans began to experience with dread the sort of terror-bombing which their own airforce had inflicted on numerous European cities since 1939 and which the allies were now returning with immeasurably greater force and concentration . |
| 8 | Psychology has concluded that the most formative period of life is childhood , and in particular the first five years of life . |
| 9 | The Juran approach to quality improvement was introduced into US manufacturing operations in 1983 and in 1985 the first ‘ change agents ’ or quality improvement facilitators were trained at Harrow in techniques such as statistical process control . |
| 10 | It was improved in the later 1960s and in 1975 the first Lomé Convention also included British ex-colonies . |
| 11 | By 1882 , Edison 's system of generating power in a central power station , changed industrial methods almost as much as steam had brought about the industrial revolution , and by 1885 the first internal combustion driven machine had appeared , to be followed in 1894 by the first recognisable motorcar . |