Example sentences of "won the [num ord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Woosie aside , most of us might score closer to the 100 with which Bernard Darwin won the first official Club meeting in 1893 . |
| 2 | In 1956 , too , a Spaniard , albeit an exiled Republican Spaniard , Juan Ramón Jiménez , won the Nobel prize for literature and Spain was the protagonist of another , undoubtedly more popular , cultural event : on 13 June 1956 the Real Madrid football team won the first European Cup championship . |
| 3 | Programmers Dan and Kathe Spracklen , who have paced the industry Since their Sargon program won the first micro chess tournament in 1978 , believe that about 90 per cent of this progress is due to faster speeds in the evaluation routines , and only 10 per cent because the routines themselves have become more chess-intelligent . |
| 4 | On 24 June Edward won the first notable victory of the war in the naval battle fought off Sluys ( Fr L'Ecluse ) at the mouth of the river Zwyn , at which a larger French fleet was decimated by superior English tactics and the better use of prevailing conditions . |
| 5 | The fifth seeded American won the third round encounter 6–3 6–4 then raced for shelter as the rain flooded the Edgbaston Priory club . |