For the first time since nineteen ninety-two, the best picture nominees include an animated film.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

Because here he was for the first time in-- well, since my wife and I were together-- someone else is getting much more attention than I was, no matter how much I cried.

因为这是妻子和我在一起后-,第一次有人夹在中间-,另一个人比我获得更多的关注，不管我怎么哭。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Actually, it's the first time I've seen him since the end of my senior which was about a year ago.

其实，自从大三之后我还是第一次见他，是一年前的事了。

我尊敬的教授 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund expect the world economy to shrink this year for the first time since World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

In nineteen sixty-three, Benny returned to Broadway for the first time since nineteen thirty-one.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

This year,Lilith Fair returned for the first time since nineteen ninety-nine.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

"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

Tanks and missiles paraded across Red Square last May for the first time since the Soviet collapse in 1991.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

Speaking for the first time since the outbreak of the controversy, Semenya spoke animatedly of the final she won.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

According to one survey, Labor is in third place for the first time since 1982 behind the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

British airspace has been closed down for the first time since the September 11,2001 attacks on New York.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

And this year, for the first time since 1991, that rate is on the rise.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

The reported advances near the Afghan border come a day after army officials took journalists into the region for the first time since the operation started in mid-October.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

BP stopped the oil from billowing into the Gulf on Thursday, for the first time since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

Mr.Obama says the U.S.auto industry has added 45,000 jobs since General Motors emerged from bankruptcy, and Chrysler has reported a profit for the first time since the economic crisis began.

VOA: standard.2010.04.24

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

Abolhassan Bani Sadr, who was Iran's first president after the Islamic Revolution, says the power of the bazaar has diminished since that time, but that that it still carries considerable weight.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

The Obama administration has lifted limits on travel and remittances to Cuba by Cuban-Americans and initiated talks on reinstating direct postal service between the two countries for the first time since 1963.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

The Labor Department says first-time claims for jobless benefits took an unexpected drop last week, to the lowest number since 2009 began, and 20 percent lower than at its peak earlier in the year.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

With the world's major economies forecast to shrink this year for the first time since World War Two, Britain's Financial Times newspaper reports the G20 participants will likely resolve to strive for economic growth in 2010.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30