Sentence examples for obtained a first from inspiring English sources

Educated at Shrewsbury school and Trinity College, Cambridge, he obtained a first in classics.

After a brilliant Eton career, he had been president of the Oxford Union, obtained a first in Mods after five terms and was on his way to a first in Greats.

We already have a vast reservoir of graduates that have obtained a first or 2.1 – yet the skills pipeline from education to industry is in danger of running dry.

When he crossed purple-flowered peas with white-flowered ones, he obtained a first filial (F1) generation in which all the offspring had purple flowers.

Born in Annonay in the Ardèche region, Grimaud obtained a first degree in literature but just failed to get into the elite Ecole Normale Supérieure to pursue further his passion for the subject (this was "the biggest disappointment of my life," he wrote later).

He was a scholar at Oxford University, where he obtained a First Class Degree in Chemistry.

Andreotti obtained a first-class law degree from the University of Rome in 1941, specialising in ecclesiastical law.

He obtained a first-class degree in physics and worked on atomic beams under Ken Smith for his PhD, before moving to the University of Sussex with Smith.

More than an observatory, Hülegü obtained a first-rate library and staffed his institution with notable Islamic and Chinese scholars.

Treading an academic path between theology and sociology, he obtained a first-class honours degree from the University of Nottingham in theology before completing a doctorate in sociology on "possession, power and the new age".

Hague got four As at A-Level and went on to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he obtained a first-class degree in, predictably, Politics, Philosophy and Economics as well as being President of the Oxford Union.