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How to use the word first-time in a Sentence?

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Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

– Catherine Deneuve

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This is the first time that we’ve ever found concrete evidence of a supply chain attack leading to another supply chain attack.

– Charles Carmakal

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1 year ago

Massive cuts in programs you count on, the threat of defaulting on America’s debt for the first time in 230 years.

– Joe Biden

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1 year ago

Mortgage rates continue to trend down entering the traditional spring homebuying season, unfortunately, those in the market to buy are facing a number of challenges, not the least of which is the low inventory of homes for sale, especially for aspiring first-time homebuyers.

– Freddie Mac

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1 year ago

The labor market for the first time looks like it is starting to move into better balance, as well it should with major US corporations announcing cutbacks in the thousands almost nearly every day.

– Chris Rupkey

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1 year ago

While it’s not the first time a study has shown that early treatment with hormone replacement therapy may be more protective for a women’s brain, it did suggest for the first time that greater amounts of tau protein may be associated with later initiation of hormone treatment.

– Richard Isaacson

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1 year ago

In the history of the lake, created in the early 1980s, this is the first time that this situation has been so serious.

– Boris Rouquet

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1 year ago

Although, the stress-eating — this is the first time that I know of that anyone has found this effect in response to anthropogenic stresses in the field.

– Tracy Langkilde

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1 year ago

We hope that the highest court in the world, the International Court of Justice, will hand down an opinion that will be greatly persuasive in terms of increasing domestic action and identifying what gaps in international law and domestic law that need to be filled, this will be the first time that this organ of the UN will actually have to address the climate crisis, and the legal obligations of states in that regard, so it is quite historic.

– Ralph Regenvanu

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1 year ago

For the first time, PDP is going to take Lagos, and I’m going to be the governor, people are really tired … the streets of Lagos are yearning for a breath of fresh air and that is what we represent.

– Azeez Olajide Adediran

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1 year ago

We’re bringing Annie Moore back to Cork, this is the first time, in a sense, that we’ll have the opportunity to celebrate her and to acknowledge her in our hometown, and have a gathering in her honor.

– Paul Linehan

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1 year ago

This is the first time, in a sense, that we’ll have the opportunity to celebrate her and to acknowledge her in our hometown, and have a gathering in her honor.

– Paul Linehan

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1 year ago

I never lost hope and always knew this day would come, i cannot wait to hug my mother in the free world for the first time in over 34 years.

– Sidney Holmes

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1 year ago

It was the first time I remember so clearly coming out of a class with him and just seeing in his face this new expression, this new person, we were like, ‘We need to figure out why and how that just happened.’.

– Adam Pearce

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1 year ago

The attack is really large-scale and for the first time using such different types of missiles. We see that this time as many as six Kinzhal were used. This is an attack like I don’t remember seeing before, so far, we have no capabilities to counter these weapons.

– Yurii Ihnat

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1 year ago

It has been a long arc from the first time the question was raised, to where we are now.

– Liz Karan

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1 year ago

For the first time, I started struggling with getting my homework done [and] having a set schedule that I had to do myself, it was because of online school.

– Clara Pitts

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1 year ago

This is the first time we’ve had state-level estimates on these behaviors, it’s a really good time to think about the programs and policies that states have in place and areas where they can continue to work and improve to make the nutrition environment the best it can be for our young children.

– Heather Hamner

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1 year ago

I believe in diversity. So it’s not a Black thing. It’s not an African thing. You know, we have to consider all races. But what is more important is the best man for the job, but there’ll be a good level of diversity introduced maybe for the first time.

– Ashley Allen/Getty Images Mmobuosi

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1 year ago

I didn’t want to leave my family as much, I wasn’t used to it. Remember, that was the first time I’d ever been out of the country, or out of the south, because I’d been to the States on my own, I think I was maybe a little bit more adventurous in terms of I was willing to take a bit more of a risk and travel and do something different.

– Vickie Kidner

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1 year ago

Our providers are telling us that people are going private, many for the first time, and the key factor driving that is the challenge in accessing NHS care.

– David Furness

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1 year ago

I learned back in my undergrad days that there was this part of the spectrum we couldn’t see, it really just struck me that there was this unexplored part of the universe, and I want to explore this part of the sky for the first time.

– Mary Knapp

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1 year ago

Adele meet The Rock, The Rock meet Adele! For the first time ever! all right, you two get acquainted, we gotta keep the show moving!

– Trevor Noah

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1 year ago

For today’s buyer of a median-priced home, the down payment amount is lower than it would have been last summer, while that is positive news, affordability remains a primary challenge, especially for first-time buyers.

– George Ratiu

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1 year ago

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