British soldiers in Afghanistan have become the first to use miniature surveillance helicopters in frontline operations.
Olly Morgan and Mark Foster have become the first players to pledge their futures to the club.
California and Illinois have become the first two states to make it expressly illegal for employers to make such demands.
Two newspapers, the Herald and the Sunday Herald, have become the first in Scotland to charge regular readers of their online pages.
Two men have become the first football supporters in Scotland to be convicted and sentenced under new offensive behaviour at football legislation.
People in a Cumbrian community have become the first in the country to support the introduction of greater planning powers for parish councils.
Had he joined the likes Wayne Rooney and younger teammates, Beckham would have become the first Englishman to play in four World Cup finals.
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"Small and medium sized enterprises have become the first victim of banks tightening the noose on the flow of funds, " says Secretary General Anil Bhardwaj.
Shanghai claims last year to have become the first city in China to provide free education for all migrant children, mostly in state-run schools, with some in subsidised private ones.
Dutch coach Bert van Marwijk -- who lost out on the chance to have become the first coach since 1970 to have led a side through World Cup qualifying and the finals unbeaten -- conceded Spain had deserved to win.
Calcium channel blockers have become the preferred first medical treatment for cramping in patients who get them often for unknown reasons.
Cerulean Studios may have just become the first company in the world to implement some of the ideas I hatched in an editorial I wrote about a little something called the Continuous Client.
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Lucky and Flo, the two danger-loving police dogs whose exploits as international crime fighters are well know to readers of this site, have just become the first non-humans to be awarded Malaysia's outstanding service award for their tireless work in trotting around and sitting down at the first whiff of plastic.
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Bolt has set the World Championships alight with his displays in the Olympic Stadium, which have seen him become the first man to hold the 100 and 200m World and Olympic titles at the same time.
The main beneficiary of the votes of the new Germans will probably be the Greens and the Social Democrats, who will have enabled them to become German in the first place.
London has become the first region where white British people have become a minority.
"We have a big chance to become the first holders of the Confederation Cup, " said Schmidt.
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In which case, Mr Jones booked a two week holiday in June before he knew the outcome of the election - an election that could have seen him become First Minister or remain Deputy First Minister had the votes fallen differently.
Conversely, disaster agencies in the First World have become "far too bureaucratic and tied up in rules, " he said from Jakarta, where he is on leave to work on an aid project.
Scientists at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute and the University College London Cancer Institute have been trying to crack how cancers become so diverse in the first place.
The Germans have become particularly adept at clearing stocks of chemical weapons left over from the first and second world wars.
With more research and incentives, we can break our dependence on oil with biofuels and become the first country to have a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015.
With more research and incentives, we can break our dependence on oil with biofuels, and become the first country to have 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015.
Last year, 56-year-old Eva Ottoson, who lives in Nottinghamshire, said she hoped to become the first woman to have her womb transplanted into her daughter, Sara, 25, who lives in Sweden and was born without reproductive organs.
Also notable was that for the first time since October 2009, speculators have turned to become net-short in copper in the disaggregated report.
It is the first time Miramax titles have become available through a digital subscription service.
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But today's chips, storage, displays and connections have become so cheap that the coolest products are pitched first to consumers worldwide.
The win made him the oldest winner since 1970, having become the youngest ever in 1990 when he captured his first major, and could have provided the perfect bookend to a truly phenomenal career.
The original villagers have become wealthy beyond their wildest dreams by owning shares in the commune, which was the first commune ever to list on the Chinese stock market.
As the rate kicking in with the first dollar of earned income has shot up, payroll levies have become a much bigger part of the total tax burden.
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