Sentence examples for First magnitude from inspiring English sources

That, Taylor ruled, was a "blunder of the first magnitude".

"Failure to give that order," Taylor wrote, "was a blunder of the first magnitude".

There is no doubt that traffic in illegal narcotics creates social harms of the first magnitude.

The first magnitude scale was developed by Charles F. Richter, a seismologist, in the 1930's.

The constellation of modern English and American poets who have translated is of the first magnitude.

"For all the violence, Iraq represents an achievement of the first magnitude.

Magnitudes are now defined such that a first-magnitude star is 100 times brighter than a star of sixth magnitude.

It can locate 43 constellations, any first-magnitude stars and all visible planets in seconds.

In 1838 Sir John Herschel observed it as a first-magnitude star.

The state also contains a significant portion of the country's first-magnitude artesian springs, most located in the central region.

At the time the pyramids were built, Thuban in the constellation Draco served as the pole star, and in about 12,000 years the first-magnitude star Vega will be near the north celestial pole.