Example sentences of "been [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bedford was the only new earl created by Edward III after his family settlement in 1362 , and his patronage of the nobility was markedly less generous than it had been in the first two decades of his reign . |
| 2 | ‘ I was bumped on to the rail six or seven times and I think I would have been in the first four but for that , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Two more , and it was plain that she was hungry , just as Patrick had been in the first few weeks of life . |
| 4 | That had been in the first exhilarating days of their relationship , and he had been elated at their evident approval of her . |
| 5 | The aqueous micelles comprising droplets of 1-octanol stabilised by octanoate ( surfactant is generated upon addition of sodium permanganate , which oxidises the alcohol to give the salt ) , could have biological relevance , because these may have been among the first prebiotic structures able to self-replicate . |