Sentence examples for became the first large from inspiring English sources
And this week, on Thursday, Philadelphia became the first large city to pass a similar tax.
Earlier this year, Weil Gotshal & Manges became the first large firm to announce heavy cutbacks.
By Vauhini Vara June 16, 2016 On Thursday, Philadelphia became the first large city to pass a soda tax.
Under Garnier's management, GSK became the first large drugmaker to offer AIDS drugs at cost to developing countries.
Last week, DDB Needham Worldwide became the first large ad agency to offer a performance-based compensation system.
The Chinese have long had warm feelings for France, which in 1964 became the first large Western country to recognize the People's Republic of China.
And, in 2014, just as Abacus was winding down its time at the Y Combinator accelerator, Bessemer became the first large-scale investor in the company.
And last year, the company became the first large-scale bottler of a dairy product that has almost disappeared from American tables: real buttermilk, the creamy liquid that remains in the churn after the butter comes together.
These became the first large-scale documented frost quakes in Canada, and thanks to this inadvertently created citizen science database, researchers successfully forecasted the occurrence of two subsequent cryoseisms in the region a month later.
Most Americans own computers today because the government not only funded the research and development of microprocessors (as part of the space race) but also became the first large-scale purchaser of the devices.
