Example sentences of "saw the first [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Annual gate receipts rose during the period from £1,55 to £5,309 , and 1912 saw the first four-figure profit — just over £1,000 . |
| 2 | THE vote that gave the Democrats the White House and is expected to give them their tightest grip on Congress in decades also saw the first black woman elected to the Senate . |
| 3 | The presidential election of 1952 saw the first large-scale hiring of skilled advertising men to do the politicians ' persuading for them . |
| 4 | While all the local authority construction of the 1940s was of very high quality for general needs , the late 1950s saw the first non-traditional units in the form of Wimpey 's point blocks built at Hunters and Murrays Closes in Percy Main . |
| 5 | This week arguably saw the first real skirmishes of that impending struggle for succession : the sub-text of set-piece deliveries by Sir Geoffrey Howe , Kenneth Baker , Michael Heseltine et al . |
| 6 | 1931 saw the first Old Stopfordians ' Annual Dinner actually to be held in School ( the Association had been renamed , reviving one of the old forms of the name of the town , in 1927 ) . |
| 7 | 1914 saw the first axiomatic declaration of exactly what constitutes a ring . |
| 8 | 1 May also saw the first operational sorties by the 21 Squadron Blenheims from Luqa , together with another claim for the Ju88 by the anti-aircraft defences . |
| 9 | It saw the first public flotation of a building society , the first moves towards acquisition of a major bank , Girobank , by another society , some further widening of building society powers , a tendency for more societies to become ‘ tied agents ’ of insurance companies and further excursions by societies into the wider field of financial services . |