It is the first time that the world's biggest sports event will be held in Africa.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

But it is the first time an amino acid has been discovered on a comet.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

It is the first time the well known film actress has performed on Broadway.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

It is the first malaria vaccine candidate to have large success during early testing.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

He says it is the first cell whose parent was in a computer.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

It is the first book in a series that Mister Burroughs wrote about a man who travels to Mars during the last years of the eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

It is the first album he recorded in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

It is the first feature film for director Gareth Edwards.

VOA: special.2010.10.29

"It's a big deal. How big a deal you have to measure piece by piece but clearly it is the first major change in our health care system since nineteen sixty-five so that's a long time coming."

VOA: special.2010.03.27

"That is the case today. And it is the first time any president has acted outside the June 1 time frame,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

It is the first time the technique has been used to document how the brain processes grammar and produces words.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

It is the first time the North has ever paid such an explicit tribute to a South Korean leader.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

The summit is the first ever between the EU and Pakistan and it was marked by warm words on both sides.

VOA: standard.2009.06.17

Dieng says it is the first time that such a court decision has been put into action.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27