For arguably the first time, he said, he and others in Europe would be looking closely at the results in Britain in May to see how Ukip performs.
But it was also, arguably, the first time that her opponents — Dennis Kucinich, Bill Richardson, John Edwards, Christopher Dodd, Joe Biden, and, most improbably, Barack Obama — seriously challenged her, on all fronts.
The French are feeling good about themselves as a country that has done the right thing diplomatically for arguably the first time since ex-President Jacques Chirac and Mr de Villepin declared that they would veto a UN Security Council resolution authorising intervention in Iraq.
It is arguably the first time in the history of the sport that New Zealand can claim to be the world's best, but as the Australian full-back, Billy Slater, said after the match, there is no real doubt now about the legitimacy of that claim.
As Christian de Boissieu, head of the official Council of Economic Analysis, puts it, "this is arguably the first time a political leader in France has planned a reform and actually used the word".Second, there is a marked change in the public mood since 1995.
Arguably the first time management guru – the progenitor of the notion that personal productivity might be the answer to the problem of time pressure – was Frederick Winslow Taylor, an engineer hired in 1898 by the Bethlehem Steel Works, in Pennsylvania, with a mandate to improve the firm's efficiency.
But at the same time - and arguably for the first time - there was a countervailing popular wave of revulsion against imperialist aggression.
After dealing with the subject of private grief on 2007's acclaimed White Chalk, PJ Harvey has used the mass murder of Gallipoli to turn her focus from micro to macro – arguably, for the first time in her career – on Let England Shake, her eighth studio album.
Full spectrum of a large sparse ⊤-palindromic quadratic eigenvalue problem (⊤-PQEP) is considered arguably for the first time in this article.
