Example sentences of "first [noun] since the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the first change since the L-test started in 1935 . |
| 2 | They became the first club since the war to win the Cup and the League , and were the first to win the League on goal average . |
| 3 | CHATAM can become the first horse since the great Arkle 27 years ago to land the Hennessy for a second successive year . |
| 4 | Dismissive of the ‘ corridor opportunites ’ , he fails to mention that , so far , the Foreign Secretaries of the UK and Argentina have had their first meeting since the 1982 Falklands War , that the Israeli and Soviet Foreign Ministers have got together as has the US Secretary of State with his Israeli and Egyptian counterparts , or that the two German Foreign Ministers have held extensive talks on the current crisis — all with apparently good results : quite useful when several of these countries have no diplomatic relations with each other . |
| 5 | On 28th September 1992 your Committee held its first meeting since the Museum opened in July . |
| 6 | Colin Jackson hopes to turn the tables on his best friend , Olympic champion Mark McKoy , in their first meeting since the Canadian controversially won the world indoor sprint hurdles title after seemingly getting a flyer . |
| 7 | All three parties to the Bosnia talks attended the first meeting since the current round began two weeks ago and the Bosnian president , Alija Izetbegovic , said he would sign key documents in a peace package . |
| 8 | In the first attacks since the assassination of an army colonel in mid-June , GRAPO claimed responsibility for three bombings in Madrid on Sept. 6 , 1990 , which injured a dozen people , and for an attack on the PSC/PSOE headquarters in Barcelona on Sept. 10 [ see p. 37719 ] . |
| 9 | This was the first devaluation since the introduction of the " big bang " economic reforms in January 1990 . |
| 10 | While celebrating the first occasion since the Spanish occupation of 1571 on which foreign troops had not been based in the Philippines , the country 's President , Fidel Ramos , expressed the hope that his country could develop " even stronger ties with the USA " following the withdrawal . |
| 11 | Firstly Tony O'Sullivan , in his first game since the all Ireland final , made a big impression at centre field and another substitute , John Fitzgibbon , scored the goal in the 53rd minute which finally shattered the Wexford challenge . |
| 12 | Upton won their first game since the opening day of the season when they routed Winnington Park for 64 the season 's lowest score with groundsman Alex Kegg taking 4–18 after Upton had been dismissed for a modest 128 . |
| 13 | Given its immediately appealing lyricism and lucid textures , it is extraordinary to report that Nagano 's is the first recording since the composer 's own ( made in 1966 and part of the Sony Classical Complete Edition ) . |
| 14 | The first by-election since the June National Assembly elections , held on Sept. 30 in Velingrad , was won by the UDF candidate with nearly 59 per cent of the vote , compared with 39 per cent for the BSP candidate . |
| 15 | Until they met yesterday in the quarter-finals of the £275,000 Silk Cut Championships , their first encounter since the semi-finals in Paris , the Soviet No.1 Andrei Chesnokov believed that Chang was more susceptible to power on carpet and cement . |
| 16 | IN fact this is the first version since the 31-year-old Karajan that has voices of the traditional dimensions for the principal roles , and each of the three singers offers a formidable performance . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , ICE-T 's new LP ‘ Home Invasion ’ , the rapper 's first release since the ‘ Cop Killer ’ furore , has been pushed back from its original November 10 release date to early 1993 . |
| 18 | Such participation remained in doubt following the breakdown of the first talks since the coup , on Aug. 16-18 , between the government and main opposition parties . |
| 19 | Going from there to , and that 's a sort of history of where things have happened over the previous four mon four months , to expectations about output this is the first survey since the recession began in which all regions , mainland regions of the U K say that they expect output to increase over the coming four months . |
| 20 | Now , for the first time since the early Seventies the left has no power to tether the leadership on anything significant . |
| 21 | 3 STEVE BULL scored twice as England finished their European Championship Under-21 qualifying campaign with a flourish in Jastrzebie Zdruj , but they are still likely to miss out on a quarter-final place for the first time since the competition began 13 years ago . |
| 22 | Tens of thousands of East Berliners streamed to the West , unhindered for the first time since the Wall was put up 28 years ago . |
| 23 | For the first time since the survey was started six years ago , retailers , wholesalers and companies in the motor trade expect to cut investment in the coming year . |
| 24 | For the first time since the survey was started six years ago , retailers , wholesalers and companies in the motor trade expect to cut investment in the coming year . |
| 25 | The Christian Democrats got only 38.7% of the vote , against 45.1% four years ago , and are being booted out of the government for the first time since the state was founded 45 years ago . |
| 26 | Home ownership in America is falling for the first time since the Depression , just as the savings-and-loan collapse has made the government the largest single owner of property after foreclosing on bankrupt thrifts . |
| 27 | The children turned to face one another for the first time since the pastor had started to tell the story of the massacre . |
| 28 | The 1,000-strong Congress , which was meeting for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union , is the only body in the country that can change the constitution and other basic laws . |
| 29 | The Northamptonshire mansion reopens to the public this weekend for the first time since the death of his father . |
| 30 | Its aim is to promote a reunion of Czech Jews for the first time since the war . |