Example sentences of "in one [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 : |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In 1914 Pourpe enlisted and was killed in one of the first air battles . |