Example sentences of "launched the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1986 , when Compaq launched the first PC using Intel 's powerful new 80386 chip , it was months ahead of its competitors . |
| 2 | Desert Storm , with its thousands of sorties a day , could have been planned without computers ( the Schlieffen plan launched the first world war with sweat and brainpower , little more ) ; but computers allow the plans to be fine-tuned and to be altered quickly . |
| 3 | In 1981 he launched the first of a series of closely watched consumer surveys . |
| 4 | In 1939 PAN AM launched the first transatlantic airline service on Yankee Clipper , a Boeing 314 flying boat with all mod cons — even sleeping berths and a bridal suite . |
| 5 | A similar exchange opened in 1880 in Ipswich , and in 1891 the Borough of Chelsea launched the first municipal exchange . |
| 6 | The Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly ( Zeta ) started working at Harwell in August 1957 , just before the USSR launched the first Sputnik . |
| 7 | The space shuttle launched the first of these last week ( see below ) . |
| 8 | Last year NEC Corp launched the first wireless PC . |
| 9 | In 1798 Breitkopf & Härtel launched the first ‘ collected edition ’ of Mozart 's works , and the first biography ( Niemetschek 's Life of Kapellmeister Wolfgang Gottlieb Mo–art written from Original Sources ) appeared in Prague . |
| 10 | Hewlett-Packard Co last week launched the first interconnect board under its February agreement with IBM Corp under which the two committed to adapting fibre optic interconnection boards for linking computers to peripherals and computers to computers developed by IBM for the AS/400 and RS/6000 to meet the ANSI Fibre Channel standard . |
| 11 | Peter Jenkinson , Head of Walsall 's Museums and Art Galleries commented : ‘ When we launched the first show three years ago , we were amazed at the amount of secret collectors we discovered behind ordinary people 's front doors . |
| 12 | Marinetti , the organizer of the movement , who launched the first Futurist manifesto in 1909 , had spent much time in France and was in touch with the most advanced French thought . |
| 13 | Stoddard Templeton launched the first ICN carpet range in the UK called Co-ordinates . |