Example sentences of "first [noun sg] since the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Telegraph said : ‘ After England 's first defeat since the World Cup we should conclude that this was the end of a team , not of an era . |
| 2 | After three consecutive games without a win Aberdeen boss Willie Miller brought back Gary Smith , Lee Richardson and Brian Grant , with Grant making his first appearance since the opening day of the season . |
| 3 | THE CABINET agreed , at its first meeting since the election , to give priority to reintroducing legislation to curb bogus refugees . |
| 4 | When the new Parliamentary Labour Party gathered on Monday for its first meeting since the election , I thought we were entitled to an apology . |
| 5 | Yesterday , carers held a protest as the county council 's social services committee held its first meeting since the election . |
| 6 | This was to be our first meeting since the threat of further surgery or at the least , drugs . |
| 7 | Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) assembled in Geneva on March 11-12 for their first meeting since the ceasefire in the Gulf war . |
| 8 | Doncaster staged it 's first meeting since the abandonment of the St Leger fixture but it was a disappointing turnout with a total of only 29 runners , which included a walk-over by Tebitto , who won £4,491 because of the defection of Tap On in the Sea Pigeon Handicap Hurdle . |
| 9 | He was to face Linford in their first clash since the Commonwealth Games . |
| 10 | Miss F , a London student , is now in her first relationship since the assault . |
| 11 | I had come to Zurich from an ‘ off ’ period — it was my first race since the Commonwealth , a gap of about three weeks . |
| 12 | Ross MacLaren 's nursing his aches and pains from Tuesday , back after injury for his first game since the end of last season and back again in the side this Saturday . |
| 13 | In the further reaches of town , there are fourteen new abstract paintings by Gillian Ayres at Purdy Hicks ( 21 May-26 June ) , her first exhibition since the closure of her former dealer , Fischer , in 1991 . |
| 14 | SWIRL ‘ Plumptuous ’ their first release since the EP ‘ A Matter Of Attitude ’ well over a year ago |
| 15 | He had to find all the time he could to write the play , even if it meant neglecting other matters , not least because it would be his first composition since the award of the Nobel Prize . |
| 16 | This would be the first party since the Christmas and New Year round of celebrations , and it would set the tome and standard for the rest of the year . |
| 17 | At the funeral Judith comes to terms with grief for the first time since the birth . |
| 18 | Sean Dodds , for Kelly , said he was out with his girlfriend for the first time since the birth of their baby . |
| 19 | Since the 1949 service , when Latin was heard in the Church for probably the first time since the Reformation , the Founder 's Psalm ( no. 130 ) has been chanted : |
| 20 | Tom Longland was relieved of his duties as commander of 3 Brigade of the Parachute Regiment , — the first time since the deployment of troops in Northern Ireland in 1969 that such action had been taken . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Earlier , there had been fighting at Mannar on Aug. 1 as the LTTE attacked an advancing troop convoy ; naval artillery was used against rebel positions on Aug. 3 for the first time since the resumption of large-scale fighting on June 11 ; and a major clash took place on Aug. 4-5 , involving the repulsing of an unsuccessful rebel attack against the Jaffna fort . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | For the first time since the beginning of the Vietnam War , Congress had acted decisively to limit the powers of the President in foreign policy . |
| 25 | She laughed at herself , and at the extravagance of these thoughts , but she felt them nonetheless , and was , for the first time since the beginning of it all , truly lighthearted . |
| 26 | According to Israel Radio , this was " the first time since the beginning of the intifada that terrorists have managed to plant bombs in a Jewish place , wounding civilians and soldiers " . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | On Oct. 13 the National Bank of Ethiopia — the central bank — raised interest rates ; the government at the same time raised government workers ' wages , for the first time since the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 , by up to 110 per cent . |
| 29 | In mid-November a United States congressional delegation visited China for the first time since the massacre . |
| 30 | The House of Commons met on a Saturday for the first time since the war . |