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1 Goals in the first half by Ian Stewart , the former Northern Ireland international , and captain Tony English , with a 70th-minute penalty by player-manager Roy McDonough , gave the Essex club a comfortable cushion for the second leg at the Moss Rose Stadium next Friday .
2 Renault showed they had a winner for the first time at the 1979 French Grand Prix when Jean-Pierre Jabouille ( Fra ) was first , with team-mate Rene Arnoux third .
3 The hotel has targeted its occupancy for the first year at 55 per cent , which , Mr Nitschke says , is realistic .
4 Homer Scott was delighted when he saw the building for the first time at the May Day meeting and even the course bookmakers who are not known for lavishing praise on anything , are impressed by what has been built .
5 It was marked by the presence for the first time at the UN of Russian President Boris Yeltsin .
6 APRIL 24 : Members of the British Racing Drivers ' Club ( BRDC ) , the parent company of SCL , are told about the deal for the first time at their AGM .
7 After she arrived home , she went to the bathroom for a quick wash and then she went to the kitchen to make a sandwich for the next morning at the factory .
8 ‘ When my father , six months before his death , saw the car for the first time at the Paris show — where he decided to go even though his health was not good — he fell in love with it immediately .
9 ROBERT Brooke 's comments in May issue 's Milestones about the ‘ recall ’ of J.W. Hearne for the Oval Test match against South Africa make more sense if it is appreciated that , with the rubber already won , the England side for the Fourth Test at Manchester was an ‘ experimental team ’ .
10 Nevin , out in the cold for the last year at Goodison , said : ‘ I 'm aiming to create as many goals as possible for Aldo and help take Tranmere into the Premier League .
11 The completed cycle was screened in its entirety for the first time at the Venice Festival this autumn .
12 The word ‘ deadline ’ entered the National Certificate results vocabulary for the first time at the end of last session .
13 In addition the proximity of the flight-path for the second runway at Edinburgh Airport placed stringent height restrictions on the form of this junction leading to the selection of a large surface-level roundabout .
14 He got a residency for the next year at the University of Kent and spent half the week in Canterbury .
15 DeFreitas needed on-field treatment to his right hand before a ball was bowled in Lancashire 's Sunday league game against Essex and only minutes after England 's high noon selection for the second Test at Lord 's .
16 The armies saw each other for the first time at just after eleven o'clock .
17 The finals venture up to the north of the country for 1992 , with the city of Sheffield host to the two-day inter-club national finale for the first time at the Graves Tennis Centre in Norton .
18 IN perfect conditions , Graham Bell , the leading member of the British World Cup downhill squad on current form , pipped his brother , Martin , to lift the British downhill title for the first time at Tignes , France , yesterday .
19 The curtain went up on Charley 's Aunt for the first time at the Theatre Royal .
20 PENNY HASSET * , who showed marked improvement when encountering heavy ground for the first time at Wolverhampton recently , should make the most of similar conditions on her return to the course for today 's Daffodil Handicap ( 5.0 ) .
21 Estimates of these costs put the average direct costs of a baby for the first year at at least £1 500 , running to £30 000 by the time the child reaches 16 .
22 Drink up : Euro Disney has begun to serve alcohol for the first time at four of its restaurants as it seeks to stem heavy losses from weak attendance .
23 Changes must be made to the attack for the first Test at Old Trafford next month but pacemen Andy Caddick , Paul Jarvis and Chris Lewis now have just one more chance to prove they should remain for the Ashes opener .
24 After a fine spring , the summer of 1980 became a big disappointment and the weather reached something of a soggy climax for the fifth Test at Headingley .
25 WELSH international golfer Mathew Ellis , from Wrexham , shot a five-under-par second round of 67 to win the Denbighshire County Championship for the first time at Llangollen .
26 As Melody put it to Seb when they were discussing the matter for the umpteenth time at the farm , ‘ You go up there and try to tell 'em Anna should n't be marrying Nahum Plunkett and they 'll tear you to pieces and feed you to the dogs . ’
27 Any attempt to produce the letter for the first time at completion should be resisted and completion delayed until the purchaser has had adequate time to consider the disclosures .
28 It will go on show for the first time at the Biotech ‘ 83 exhibition in London next month .
29 The Publicity Committee are planning to have on sale for the first time at Crystal Palace a range of metalled key-rings and pendants which they think will make very nice Christmas presents .
30 Igglesden is still troubled by the groin strain which forced him to pull out of the squad for the first Test at Old Trafford while McCague was nursing a pulled hamstring .
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