Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the first [noun sg] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lisburn , with a 13-point cushion , go to Strangford Road at the top of their form and if they can come away with a maximum haul of 22 points , will be very comfortably placed at home to North the following week , with the prospect of the trophy making its way back to Wallace Park for the first time since 1980 . |
| 2 | KEVIN DEARDEN saved a second-half penalty to earn Birmingham a 2–1 victory over Bolton which lifted them back to the top of the Third Division for the first time since November . |
| 3 | In elections to the National Assembly on April 26 [ see p. 36019 ] , the DJP emerged as the largest single party but failed to retain an overall majority for the first time since its formation in 1981 . |
| 4 | In elections to the National Assembly on April 26 , 1988 , the DJP emerged as the largest single party but failed to retain an overall majority for the first time since its formation in 1981 [ see pp. 36019-22 ] . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At the funeral Judith comes to terms with grief for the first time since the birth . |
| 7 | Sean Dodds , for Kelly , said he was out with his girlfriend for the first time since the birth of their baby . |
| 8 | ‘ We have lost two League games in succession for the first time since August . |
| 9 | Rangers ' goalkeeper , who has a valid claim to the title of Britain 's best by his displays in Europe this season , has missed two matches in succession for the first time since joining the club from Hibs and will not train today . |
| 10 | He is under 13 stone in weight for the first time since his teens . |
| 11 | One further return to Carolingian precedent occurred at the very end of Louis VII 's reign , when coinage from the king 's mints and bearing his image began to circulate outside the royal demesne for the first time since the late ninth century . |
| 12 | Labour 's rather narrow parliamentary majority in 1964 was chiefly an effect of a slump in Tory support and continuing electoral revival of the Liberals ( who received over 10 per cent of the vote for the first time since the war ) . |
| 13 | The decision by the Financial Times to back Labour for the first time since 1966 was attacked by Sir John Banham , director general of the Confederation of British Industry . |
| 14 | Until then , Cambridge had looked set to record only their second win in 17 years and to take the trophy for the first time since its introduction by the present sponsors in 1987 . |
| 15 | This was always going to be a difficult match for Hammer to win , as they were up against a ‘ Mill side eager to take the trophy for the first time since 1974 . |
| 16 | JORDAN 'S Prime Minister , Mr Mudar Badran , yesterday announced the freezing of martial law for the first time since 1967 as a prelude for formally revoking most of its provisions and abolishing it . |
| 17 | This trailblazing series is currently on show at the National Portrait Gallery in its entirety for the first time since 1935 , together with more conventional colour portraits of John Gielgud , Vivien Leigh , the Mountbattens and Lisa Maugham , and black-and-white work from the later years . |
| 18 | Hull moved out of the Second Division relegation zone for the first time since mid-September with a 2-1 win over Plymouth last night — their fourth win in their last six games and their third successive victory under the new manager Stan Ternant . |
| 19 | It was Forest 's fifth win in seven league games and lifted them above Middlesbrough and out of the relegation zone for the first time since the beginning of September . |
| 20 | The end of a 10-year drought : David Gower hits the winning runs and England have beaten Pakistan in a Test match for the first time since 1982 |
| 21 | The end of a 10-year drought : David Gower hits the winning runs and England have beaten Pakistan in a Test match for the first time since 1982 |
| 22 | Later , months later when I was taken into town for the first time since The Bomber , I wanted to put some flowers on her grave . |
| 23 | On Dec. 23 two Palestinians were shot dead and more than 40 injured during fresh unrest in the Gaza Strip , the borders of which had been opened that day for the first time since the abduction of Toledano . |
| 24 | The prevailing sense of disillusionment with the Democrats within Massachusetts meant that the Republicans had a realistic chance of winning the governorship for the first time since 1970 . |
| 25 | The Kremlin 's Uspensky ( Assumption ) Cathedral was used for a religious service for the first time since 1918 when the 400th anniversary of the Moscow Patriarchate was celebrated on Oct. 12 . |
| 26 | They put on separate roadshows as they appeared at the same event for the first time since Mr Major 's statement in the House of Commons . |
| 27 | The second was the swift and inexplicable fall from grace of Kiwi superstar Chris Dickson who , with only four wins out of nine round-robin races , failed to make the semi-finals at an international event for the first time since 1987 . |
| 28 | General Motors and Ford both expect to lose money on car manufacturing this quarter for the first time since the 1982 recession , largely as a result of overcapacity in the market . |
| 29 | With the greatest respect to Rumbelows , and the 76,000 packed inside Wembley , United hope that their success yesterday will soon be dwarfed by the achievement of lifting the First Division title for the first time since 1967 . |
| 30 | Lancashire , meanwhile , suffered a serious blow to their ambition to win the title for the first time since 1987 when they lost 9–8 to Durham at Seaton Carew . |