Example sentences of "in [num] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her monograph , The Metabolism of Fat , published in 1943 as the first of Methuen 's monographs in biochemistry , summarized her views on the field , in which she was by then a recognized authority . |
| 2 | It was the same stadium that Melpomene , an unofficial woman entrant , stepped into in 1986 in the first Olympic marathon . |
| 3 | Also , as a means of diffusing his own publications , this time through advertisement , he was among the backers in 1788 of the first evening daily , the Star and Evening Advertiser ; it created a precedent in offering a copy service to others . |
| 4 | The show illustrates in two large sections the period from the election in 1024 of the first Salien king , Konrad II , to the death in 1125 of his great-grandson Emperor Heinrich V. The first , introduced by historical maps of the period , illustrates the everyday life and working environment of people of different social strata . |
| 5 | On visiting Hawes Water in 1801 for the first time , Wm . |
| 6 | The plan is for the theatre to open in 1993 with the first season of Shakespeare plays . |
| 7 | The beachfront villa in Beirut where Coleman lived in 1985 during the first DIA undercover assignment . |
| 8 | On a collision course are Onslow 's — who started the fleet sailing in 1985 with the first specialised sale — and Christie 's South Kensington . |
| 9 | The high point of his BBC career was the opening in 1929 of the first dual transmitter high-power section in Brookmans Park , near London . |
| 10 | Harris came to York in 1963 as the first lecturer appointed to the English Department by the founding professor Philip Brockbank . |
| 11 | I vividly recall meeting the young man in 1979 for the first time . |
| 12 | Use of animals in experiments in the UK increased in 1991 for the first time in 15 years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Brunel would have nothing steeper than 1 in 660 for the first eighty-five miles out of Paddington ; Robert Stephenson planned the London and Birmingham Railway with no gradient steeper than 1 in 330 ( except the first rise from Euston to Camden ) ; and Locke nothing steeper than 1 in 250 on the difficult London and Southampton line . |
| 15 | This shift led to the return in 1892 of Keir Hardie as the first independent labour MP , and in 1898 of the first labour council in British electoral history . |
| 16 | The star of this anniversary show , however , will be the National Railway Museum 4-4-0 ‘ City of Truro ’ No. 3440 which made world history in 1904 as the first steam locomotive to attain 100 miles per hour while descending nearby Wellington Bank ! |
| 17 | He finished on the rostrum in three of the first four GPs ( ignition failure put him out of the fourth ) and he beat John Kocinski in stunning style to win the fifth GP of the season at the Nurburgring . |
| 18 | It was sold at Sotheby 's in 1946 in the first and greatest post-war Phillips sale for £900 . |
| 19 | It was first published in 1650 in the first edition of dances collected by John Playford and would certainly have been danced at the court of King Charles II . |
| 20 | Irrigation was improved , including the building in 1902 of the first dam at Aswan , while the economy was pushed ever more towards the monocrop culture of cotton , primarily for export to British textile mills in Lancashire . |
| 21 | The new organisation is concerned by the increase in 1992 for the first time in six years of fur imports to £22 million , the equivalent of two million animals , and a renewed popularity in fur clothing or trimmings . |
| 22 | In 1749 for the first time a single system of tactics was laid down for the entire army , while in 1765 the Hofkriegsrath assumed the power to appoint to all ranks above that of captain and from 1776 an organized State military transport corps began to be built up . |
| 23 | WITH THE SUDDEN ENDING of the War the aircraft industry was thrown into chaos , but there was a renewed interest in a £10,000 prize offered by the Daily Mail in 1913 to the first pilot to fly across the Atlantic . |
| 24 | His tireless work for the cause of Albanian nationalism was rewarded in 1913 with the first of two enquiries on the point of whether he would be prepared to accept the throne of Albania , if it was formally offered to him . |
| 25 | The first self-service store opened in Croydon in 1952 with the first edge-of-town store appearing in 1972 . |
| 26 | Most of this capacity was in the Khuzestan area , where prospecting began in the early years of this century , culminating in the discovery in 1908 of the first of a cluster of oil-bearing structures identified in a northwest-southeast trend on a flank of the Zagros mountain range . |
| 27 | South London commuters who have travelled practically all their working lives on dreary Bulleid-influenced 4-SUB and EPB units would have celebrated the arrival from York in 1981 of the first Class 455 four-car units , which , in three batches , eventually ran to 137 . |
| 28 | There is no further mention of Ambrosia in the records , and possibly she is to be identified with the ‘ Dame Ambroise de Saint-Joire ’ named in 1288 among the first entrants to the Carthusian nunnery of Melan ( Haute-Savoie ) founded in 1282 by Beatrice de Faucigny . |
| 29 | The proportion without electricity was to be reduced to less than one in ten in the first decade of nationalisation . |
| 30 | It was renamed Gallaudet College in 1894 in honour of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet , founder in 1817 of the first American school for the deaf at Hartford , Connecticut , and became Gallaudet University , on being granted university status in 1987 . |