Example sentences of "the first [noun] since the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report , from a correspondent in Bangkok , stated that this was the first occasion since the Vietnamese withdrawal from Cambodia in September 1989 [ see pp. 36881-82 ] that Vietnamese forces had been used in anything more than an emergency capacity . |
| 2 | The numbers of both pupils and teachers have increased slightly since 1984 — the first increase since the early 1970s . |
| 3 | He has worked widely since then in theatre and television , playing Romeo at the Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich , Sebastian in Twelfth Night and a leading part in the first revival since the eighteenth century of Sir Courtly Nice , performed at the Young Vic in London and the Swan Theatre in Stratford . |
| 4 | On 4th October , Miles ' Napoleon cannon , raised like a mortar , inflicted the first casualties since the opening battle : burying a girl , Atsipeeten , and her grandmother , Intetah , in their shelter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The three major US car makers saw their stock prices decline after analysts predicted quarterly losses on their North American businesses for the first time since the 1982 recession . |
| 7 | For the first time since the end of the Falklands war there was , also , a less than total confidence among ministers in the certainty of the coming victory at the polls . |
| 8 | At last the ‘ special relationship ’ seemed to have some meaning , perhaps for the first time since the days of Macmillan . |
| 9 | The House of Commons met on a Saturday for the first time since the war . |
| 10 | For the first time since the end of censorship , the Polish press ( long plagued by communist traditions of slanted reporting ) conducted a public argument neutrally and eloquently . |
| 11 | It is the first time since the end of the second world war that the Japanese navy has ventured overseas . |
| 12 | More broadly even than that , for the first time since the 1930s finance is taking centre stage in debates about economic policy , industrial competitiveness and even relative political power . |
| 13 | On Sunday , for the first time since the Gulf war , Iraq flew combat aircraft up to the 36th parallel in violation of UN resolutions . |
| 14 | For the first time since the 1950s the UK is now a net exporter of television sets . |
| 15 | At the funeral Judith comes to terms with grief for the first time since the birth . |
| 16 | What with Mrs Clements and the girls also gone for the week , I suppose I was very conscious of the fact that once I departed , Darlington Hall would stand empty for probably the first time this century — perhaps for the first time since the day it was built . |
| 17 | It is a curious miscellany , where photographs of his early ballets are mixed in with family snap-shots , pictures of his friends , souvenirs of journeys , Christmas and other greetings , a book of clothing coupons from the days of rationing , costume drawings and various illustrations cut from magazines , including a feature on Roland Petit 's ballet Carmen and examples of the ‘ new look ’ in women 's clothes when long skirts came back to fashion for the first time since the war ; he proposed a ballet about that , but it was rejected . |
| 18 | For the first time since the Southern League Championship of 1909 a major honour was within reach . |
| 19 | And he notices his lover 's leg for the first time since the last time . |
| 20 | Poland had access to a coastline for the first time since the early seventeenth century . |
| 21 | When Elizabeth 's mother and sister had gone to Leeds , Elizabeth and George had the house to themselves for the first time since the early days of their marriage . |
| 22 | On the contrary , May Day in 1990 and Revolution Day in 1989 and 1990 were , for the first time since the early 1920s , occasions for protest , for the people 's indictment of their rulers . |
| 23 | What the Saxon invasion did primarily was to reorganise most of Sussex as a distinct political unit , firmly independent for the first time since the Regni . |
| 24 | Yesterday the region — once the engine room of the late Eighties boom — saw its jobless total top 10 per cent for the first time since the end of the Second World War . |
| 25 | He looked at her for the first time since the beginning ; her head was still turned away , her hands over her face ; she had shown no further response to anything he had done . |
| 26 | For the first time since the outbreak of war , the Revolution had brought to power a Government prepared to break ranks with the Allied stance of no peace without victory . |
| 27 | The Communist Youth League magazine , Zhongguo Qingnian , was published for the first time since the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution in September 1978 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The net change in capital account was approximately £4,700m which , overall , made Britain an international debtor for the first time since the eighteenth century . |
| 30 | A second problem is that corporate profits are already depressed , having declined for three years in a row for the first time since the second world war . |