Example sentences of "first [noun] since it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hit by relentless price competition and slumping business conditions , Fujitsu Ltd on Friday forecast that for fiscal 1993 to March 31 , it would report its first loss since it was first listed in Tokyo in 1949 : it sees a group net loss of $322m and a current loss of $169m for the year , against net profit of $103m and current profit of $437m last fiscal — current profit includes gains and losses made on investments in stocks and bonds and sundry profits and losses from other non-operating activities ; ‘ Customers expect lower prices , ’ said Mike Beirne , a Fujitsu spokesman — ‘ the price competition goes from the price war in personal computers right up to mainframes ; ’ the company acknowledges that losses are likely to continue into the first six months of its new year . |
| 2 | Barclays Bank has recorded its first loss since it was established in eighteen nineteen-six . |
| 3 | Lotus Development Corp says it has sold more than 125,000 units worldwide of its new dynamic spreadsheet , Improv for Windows , in the first month since it became available in retail outlets : Improve is being offered at $100 until May 31 . |
| 4 | NATIONAL Express has enjoyed a one-way ticket to profitability , the coach operator revealed today in its first results since it floated on the stock market . |
| 5 | Thomas Cook : annual pre-tax profits £25.3 million ( £8.9 million ) — first results since it was acquired by Germany 's Westdeutsche Landesbank and LTU group last September . |
| 6 | For the first time since it was shown at the Berlin Secession in 1902 , the National Gallery has reconstructed Edvard Munch 's ‘ The Frieze of Life ’ ( until 7 February 1993 ) , a loose association of forty or fifty pictures illustrating the important and highly autobiographical themes of love , anxiety and death , to which the artist makes a first reference in his correspondence in 1893 . |
| 7 | ‘ When I come out of a house having heard a victim laugh for the first time since it all happened — I know that 's why I do it , ’ she says . |
| 8 | With exactly half the seats in the Congress the PSOE was without an absolute majority for the first time since it came to power in 1982 . |
| 9 | Last year the Group cut its dividend for the first time since it became a quoted company in 1970 , but this year analysts expect the dividend to be held at last year 's figure , with Pilkington digging into reserves in order to fend off the resulting loss of confidence . |
| 10 | Highlight is the Manx International over three laps ( 113 miles ) , which goes back Am/Pro for the first time since it started in 1936 . |