Sentence examples for the first discovery from inspiring English sources

Since the first discovery in 1886, the Witwatersrand has produced half the world's gold.

This is the first discovery of a nine-month drilling campaign.

The diagnosis marked the first discovery of a new disease by the program.

In March 2008 scientists announced the first discovery of an organic molecule in an extrasolar planet.

There is the first discovery of something big, leading to establishing principles like scientific rules.

Gen Suwa, a paleoanthropologist now at the University of Tokyo, made the first discovery in 1992: a single upper molar.

"This is more or less the first discovery that we have BMAA in aquatic ecosystems," Dr. Jonasson said.

After the first discovery of foot-and-mouth disease in February 2001, it took 72 hours before a ban was placed on transporting livestock, Mr. Kendall said.

The first discovery was his exquisite taste in painting.The second was his essential fidelity: he has lived in the same house for 57 years.

A Trinity College manuscripts expert, Bernard Meehan, said it was the first discovery of an Irish early medieval document in two centuries.

The finding, if confirmed, will be the first discovery of a gene involved in the most common kind of Type 2 diabetes.