Example sentences of "[noun prp] for the first time since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kohl , in eastern Germany for the first time since the December 1990 general election , was jeered and pelted with eggs by several hundred protesters on April 7 in Erfurt ( where enthusiastic crowds of over 100,000 had greeted him on his last visit in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) . |
| 2 | His two goals helped Vale beat local rivals Stoke for the first time since 1956 and for the first time ever in the FA Cup . |
| 3 | Butter is in the supermarkets of Timisoara for the first time since March last year . |
| 4 | The House of Commons met on a Saturday for the first time since the war . |
| 5 | A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman on Oct. 10 rejected a proposal made by the Dalai Lama in a speech in the USA on Oct. 9 to return to Tibet for the first time since 1959 , and demanded that he abandon his support for Tibetan independence . |
| 6 | In November Nelson Mandela , deputy president of the African National Congress , visited Swaziland for the first time since his February release . |
| 7 | In mid-November a United States congressional delegation visited China for the first time since the massacre . |
| 8 | On March 12 in Washington he met US President Bush for the first time since the start of the Gulf crisis in August 1990 . |
| 9 | The government confirmed on May 13 that it had landed a contingent of troops on the southern tip of Bougainville for the first time since 1990 , when it had withdrawn its forces from the island in the face of a protracted secessionist guerrilla war conducted by the Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) . |
| 10 | On May Day 1983 , a number of trade union federations held congresses openly in San Salvador for the first time since 1980 . |
| 11 | The exhibition , running until 27 June , comprises 130 items from French and Spanish collections including vessels carved in semiprecious stones and mounted in enamelled and jewelled gold , from the ‘ tresor ’ of the Grand Dauphin , presented in France for the first time since the eighteenth century , and works by French painters such as Michel-Ange Houasse , Louis-Michel Van Loo and Jean Ranc and sculptors Rene Fremin and Jean Thierry , who were commissioned by Philip to decorate his palaces . |
| 12 | Mr Major , about to return to Number 10 after his Portuguese holiday , was urged to take a firm grip over Cabinet trouble-makers , when it meets on Thursday for the first time since July . |
| 13 | In the meantime diplomatic representatives from a number of countries returned to Cambodia for the first time since the mid-1970s . |
| 14 | The result : Des was airlifted out of the Gulf in mid-May and , on May 29 , at Arden Grange International Quarantine Kennels in Albourne , Sussex , Dave saw Des for the first time since March 23 . |