Example sentences of "in [num] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | Questions about shareholdings were put in 1987 for the first time , at the request of the Treasury , anxious to confirm and expand the conclusions of previous surveys by market research groups . |
| 32 | This follows two attempts to boost coal production in France — in 1973 following the first oil shock and in 1981 when the Left took power . |
| 33 | At first Johnson was contrite and ashamed , ‘ I am heart-broken , ’ he said in one of the first press reports ‘ I am a disgrace to myself and my country . |
| 34 | Typically , in one of the first debates about inner cities of the third Thatcher term , Nicholas Ridley , then Secretary of State for the Environment , justified his aggressively business led strategy , introducing more Urban Development Corporations : |
| 35 | The last few years they had been more apart , until in 1969 they both rediscovered each other in one of the first Women 's Liberation groups in London . |
| 36 | In one of the first of these surveys ( of the fourth and fifth year curriculum in secondary schools ) in 1979 , the HMI noted that secondary teachers made wide use of ‘ heavily directed teaching , a preponderance of dictated or copied notes , and emphasis on the giving and recall of information , with little room or time for enquiry or explanation of applications ’ . |
| 37 | And now he 's back in one of the first ‘ recession vignette ’ commercials , selling all the directors ' company cars to maintain the work force 's wages . |
| 38 | In one of the first cases he had taken , in 1923 , it must have been , the year after he came back — Fantina was still a baby — a widow had accused her neighbour of killing her cow out of spite . |
| 39 | In one of the first quantitative studies of what he terms the communication explosion , Cherry ( 1978 ) argues that global telecommunications are based on a ‘ tripod skeleton ’ of three main circuits , transatlantic/Europe , Far East/Europe , and North/South America . |
| 40 | In 1914 Pourpe enlisted and was killed in one of the first air battles . |
| 41 | The one at Harewood ( Fig. 23c ) , erected by Carr in 1760 for the first earl , is designed to form an appropriate approach to the great gate ( Fig. 23b ) of the new Palladian house . |
| 42 | For example , the Abbe de l'Epee , founder of the first public school for the deaf in Paris in 1755 , was a manualist , while Samuel Heinicke , founder in 1778 of the first school in Germany of a similar type , was an oralist . |
| 43 | When Lady Maud Hoare flew from Britain to India in 1926 on the first ever flight from Croydon to Delhi she had to reduce the amount of luggage with which she usually travelled quite drastically . |
| 44 | In 1785 the directors of the Bank of San Carlos ( founded in 1782 as the first national bank of Spain and in itself an indication of a new spirit ) could report in glowing terms . |
| 45 | This welcome volume , edited as was Volume II by Sheriff Irvine Smith , completes the project of the Stair Society of publishing a selection of the Justiciary Cases 1624–50 , the inception of which was signalised by the publication in 1953 of the first volume under the editorship of Sheriff Stair A. Gillon . |
| 46 | William Booth , a Methodist local preacher , began evangelical and rescue work in the East End of London in 1865 , and that eventually led , in 1878 to the first formation of the Salvation Army , with himself as the General in charge . |
| 47 | The present tax was introduced in 1965 in the first Budget of the Labour government elected in 1964 . |
| 48 | By the time that Key Stage 4 of history is introduced in 1994 with the first reported assessment in 1996 there is the possibility that its position as one of the main elements providing balance and breadth will be undermined by lack of an adequate number of hours for teaching the subject . |
| 49 | Elected in 1841 to the first legislative assembly of Upper and Lower Canada as an independent representing Huron , he served five years before resigning in 1846 to become superintendent of the Lachine canal and publish his Recollections of the American War , 1812–1814 . |
| 50 | Britain 's engineering industry went into trade deficit in 1983 for the first time ( see chart ) . |
| 51 | With an intra-anal sutured ileoanal anastomosis , mesenteric vascular division was required to deliver the apex of the pouch to the dentate line in 24 of the first 76 ( 32% ) cases . |
| 52 | One sample in seven contained residues in 1986 and the level had fallen to one sample in 20 in the first eight months of this year . |
| 53 | Noting the need for profound change in the way of thinking about defence , the declaration placed the highest priority on the completion in 1990 of the first treaty to reduce and limit conventional armed forces in Europe ( CFE ) and the completion of a package on conventional and short-range ballistic measures ( CSBM ) . |
| 54 | The survey predicted that France would have lower inflation and higher growth than the OECD average in 1990 for the first time since 1970 , with retail price inflation expected to be 2.9 per cent and growth estimated at 3.1 per cent in 1990 . |
| 55 | The Commission published a report on competition policy on June 24 , 1991 , in which it said that the number of intra-EC mergers among larger companies had in 1990 for the first time exceeded that of purely national mergers . |
| 56 | He faced growing opposition , even among those who had been his closest supporters , particularly when he failed to honour an undertaking made in 1979 to his party supporters that he would relinquish office in 1990 after the first 10 years of independence . |
| 57 | In that same year , motor-taxis appeared in London , to be followed in 1905 by the first motor-buses being tried in London . |