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

"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

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

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

Jose Manuel Barroso, E.U.Commission President, "It is the first time for the European Union to take part in a World Expo outside Union's territory.

VOA: standard.2010.05.02

"It is the first time that Africa is now giving money back to the Global Fund.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

Three legislators were absent from the vote. It is the first time a government is ousted since the country came to existence, after the breakup of the former Czechoslovakia in 1993.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

It is the first time President Yadav has urged the new government be formed under a majority banner, as opposed to one built with a full consensus from all 25 parties.

VOA: standard.2009.05.10

As histories tell it,he looked and looked at the first photograph, and said: "This is one for all time."

VOA: special.2010.05.31

One critic calls it the first television show in a long time that is just plain fun.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

Now it is time to come back to the world of the twenty-first century.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

This is the first time it will recognize the work of nongovernmental groups.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

"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

It is also the first time that the government allowed refugees to return to areas which were formerly controlled by the rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

The OIC undertaking is ambitious, it involves not just rebuilding, but in many cases building for the first time the infrastructure that could make Darfur self-sustaining.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

It is scheduled to be held on September 24 and will be chaired by President Obama the first time a U.S.president has led a Security Council meeting.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

It's the first time the World Cup is being played on African soil.

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

"It's an image that is very North Korean, but the way it's being treated is exceptional and this is the first time anyone has ever seen this style of art in the country ."

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

And the high court is going to look at it and it is very strange in that for the first time in Iranian judiciary that they are having the high court session just (a) few weeks after the sentence was issued.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

"Now that Operation Panther's Claw has shown that it can bring success and the first phase of that operation is over, it is time to commemorate all those soldiers who have given their lives and to thank all our British soldiers for the determination, the professionalism and the courage that they have been showing,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.27