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Example sentences of "league [noun] for the first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	Robson swooped back into Premier League action for the first time since 6 December , but his 14-minute cameo appearance was not long enough for the rusty 36-year-old to re-charge a championship bid which is going rapidly flat .
2	And last Monday Dr Harold Varmus let it be known that the thrill of winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine in the morning was as nothing compared with being at Candlestick Park in the evening to see the Giants take the National League pennant for the first time in 27 years .
3	Willie Falconer will start a League game for the first time in six months , and teenager Alan Moore could make his debut .
4	Manchester United skipper Bryan Robson starts a Premier League game for the first time this season at Aston Villa tomorrow .
5	FLOODLIT midweek hockey will become a prominent feature of the Renault Senior League season for the first time this season .
6	Soccer : Ferguson set to leave Robson out of cup final Colin Gibson on Manchester United 's priority to win the League championship for the first time in 25 years
7	KENNY MORRIS starred in his own version of ‘ Lethal Weapon ’ in front of the cameras yesterday as Holywood clinched the Harp Senior League Championship for the first time since they changed their name from Belfast YMCA in 1987 .
8	Nottingham Forest0 Manchester United1 MANCHESTER United filled the last remaining gap in the Old Trafford trophy cabinet , as far as domestic competitions are concerned , at Wembley yesterday by winning the League Cup for the first time .
9	By December 1982 , when Celtic lifted the League Cup for the first time since the mid-'70s , Nicholas had established himself as the young sensation of Scottish football .
10	It was fitting , in an ironic sort of way , that the 100th final , in 1991 , was contested by two League sides for the first time but neither Southend nor Leyton Orient fielded their best team .