Several people are credited with being the first to use microfinance as a tool for social improvement.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

We did make errors, but we had a lot of fun doing it. Being the first ones to do something that gigantic was very exciting."

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

Dean has the distinction of being the first-ever guest host on "The Tonight Show."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

In 2009,Taylor performed Taylor made history for being the first Country artist to win an MTV Music Video Award, and,at 19-years-old, became the youngest artist to win the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year Award.

VOA: standard.2009.12.22

About two hundred farmers signed up for the insurance within the first two weeks that it was being offered there.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

Today we have the first of two programs about how the Lomax family helped keep American folk music from being lost.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

Glenn's flight plan called for him to spend most of the first orbit getting used to the feeling of being weightless.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

The ceremony was held at the place where a monument to America's first president, George Washington, was being built.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

"The Heavens Are Hung In Black" by James Still is the first play being presented in the newly redecorated Ford's Theatre in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

She admitted that she got married the first time only to escape from being forced to live in a group home for children without parents.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

The first project is being launched in Egypt.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

This one of our ways of being a part of that. It's disheartening to see we lost the first round,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.02

He says first,it was a strike against the local authorities, who militants see as being too loyal to Moscow.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

"These are only their first Olympics." "And being at home, I don't know how they stood the pressure, because I certainly couldn't.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23