At first his party had won hundreds of votes - and later that had risen to thousands.
He got his first camera and his first microscope on his seventh birthday.
He said while at first his company tried to absorb the added costs, it could not compete against cheap international imports.
And his first this summer was also his first in England, his previous two one-day tons had both come Down Under.
First his mother, Katherine, and then his father, Joe, filed challenges against the executors of his Estate, John Branca and John McClain.
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First his shot was pushed by Aidan Davison into the path of Roussel, who claimed his ninth goal of the season from close range.
At first his new government had appeared to be watering down the proposals of Peter Hartz, a Volkswagen manager, to make the labour market more efficient.
First his musings on the people inside the Nixon administration.
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On his first album, his first original song is Song to Woody, which is built on the melody of a Woody Guthrie song, so the nod there is apparent.
The Israelis said Mr Abbas and his aides seemed unprepared to make that commitment, rehearsing rather their demand that Mr Sharon announce first his unequivocal acceptance of the road map.
Not only did he provide the youngster with his first pair of boots but he also gave him one of his first jobs in his butchers shop in the city's Castle Market.
Bond, playing his first Test match on his home ground, ripped through the Sri Lankan top order, taking three wickets in his first seven overs of the day, while Franklin picked up his three after lunch.
That first season was a huge success - he won his first championship point in his first race, recorded his first Grand Prix victory at Monza and finished an incredible third in the World Drivers' Championship.
He did show a video of an interview his team conducted and recorded with England from jail, in which the suspect described the trauma of watching first his father and then, nearly two years later, his girlfriend being shot dead a few feet away from him.
They met for dinner in Japan after a sumo match in 2005, and the next year Passin made his first trip to Mongolia before making his first investment there later in 2006 and launching his Mongolia-dedicated private equity fund in 2010.
There, Than kissed his first girl, drank his first beer and grew to like barbecued chicken.
Fish fired 10 aces and won 82 percent of his first serves to clinch his first win against Murray since 2005, ending a run of three defeats.
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The right-hander improved to 4-0 with a 1.27 ERA in five games since he lost each of his first three starts in his first year with the Cubs.
Hewitt, a former world number one, is playing in his first tournament since his shocking first round loss at Wimbledon.
President Florentino Perez smashed previous highest marks to bring Luis Figo and Zinedine Zidane to the Bernabeu in his first stint in charge, then made AC Milan's Brazilian superstar Kaka his first 'Galactico' capture of his second reign at the start of this month.
After Adam Lind had the first of his two doubles, Colby Rasmus hit a sharp liner that Curtis Granderson, playing right field for the first time in his big league career, got spun around on and Lind scored.
Mathieu beat his Dutch opponent 4-6 6-2 6-0 to win his first ATP Tour title in his first final.
Kyle Okposo followed his first career playoff fight with his first career playoff goal, a bounding puck that somehow found its way into the net with 7:37 remaining to give the Islanders a 4-3 lead and tie the playoff series at one game each.
Ieuan Evans scored the first of his two tries after just 45 seconds and Scott Gibbs got his first international score as the home side eased to a 55-5 success.
The bruising defenseman McQuaid started the scoring at 6:43 of the first with his first goal of the season, a shot from the right point that squirted through the pads of Islanders goalie Evgeni Nabokov.
Schnatter opened his first shop in 1985, after selling his beloved Camaro to buy his first pizza oven.
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Hewson helped Stephen publish his first book of drawings and arranged for his first trip abroad, to New York City.
He made his first radio broadcast in 1945 and cut his first records for a Belgian label, Olympia, in 1947.
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