The win was also the second straight for the Scarlet Knights, the first time they have done that since early January.
President Kumaratunga was speaking on national television - the first time she has done so since returning home from medical treatment in London.
This is the first time I have done that since I started on Forbes so some of these items go back as far as April.
The mayor declared a state of emergency and authorised aerial spraying the first time Dallas has done so since 1969, according to the Dallas Morning News.
The Queen has distributed Maundy on all but four occasions since coming to the throne in 1952, but this is the first time she has done so in Oxford.
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This was the first time we had done a broadcast on this kind of scale and we had no idea if anyone would be in the least bit interested!
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While it is the third time England have lifted the trophy, this win on a gloriously sunny day at the North Sydney Oval is the first time they have done so on foreign soil.
Andrew Strauss's decision to bat first on winning the toss was expected, and he made a positive move in going with both spinners - it was the first time England had done so in a home Ashes Test since 1993.
"This is the first time Amazon Studios has done this, " said Simon Morris, Lovefilm's chief marketing officer.
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This is not the first time a trial was done for health insurance.
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Mr Obama carried it in the 2008 presidential election, the first time a Democrat had done so since 1964.
Finally, this is not the first time that NPR has done CAIR's bidding.
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And the political party which is fielding candidates on St Mary's - the first time any party has done that?
Israel has boycotted a regular review by the UN Human Rights Council, the first time any country has done so.
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"Blocking text is a whole new thing - it's the first time they've done this on such a visible site, " he said.
This would not be the first time that Washington has done this.
It is not the first time this has been done - the Conservatives devoted a previous party political broadcast to an East African famine appeal.
Trouble is, this is the first time anything had been done, even though Leong Hin's stock had been exhibiting suspicious trading behavior for more than a year and a half--rising and falling over roughly six-month cycles by almost identical amounts, regardless of movements in the local market and with little news from the company.
He birdied the final four holes, the first time that had ever been done on the way to victory.
The FAO said earlier that the "true enormity of this human tragedy" had emerged for the first time from the study, done jointly with Fews Net.
This plot contains more than ten times more stars than any previous study and it is the first time that this has been done for the entire bulge.
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And these prices are what led to SpaceX last year taking back international market-share in commercial satellite launch, the first time an American company has done so in more than a decade.
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And this is the first time that the White House has done that sort of event here.
"This will be the first time it's ever been done, " said Jim Kessler, the group's vice president for policy.
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"I hope tomorrow when we meet other countries we'll follow that through and this is a very significant development, the first time it's ever been done, " he said.
When asked about how first-time starter Reggie Jackson has done filling in for the injured Westbrook, Durant faulted himself for demanding the ball too often from the young point guard.
This isn't the first time our wonder-naut has done such a thing, either, having "ran" the Boston marathon in 2007, clocking in a time of 4:23:10, which frankly, is just showing off.
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Mr. FATSIS: You know, and if they make the playoffs, it would be the first time that both Chicago teams have done so since 1906, when the White Sox beat the Cubs in the World Series.
The US failed to win the gold medal in Athens - the first time an NBA-based team had done so at the Olympics.
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