Sentence examples for be a first of from inspiring English sources

In what may be a first of its kind, the network announced that it was able to project who would come in third through seventh.

Explaining that the mixed-use project would be a first of its kind for his company, which has previously concentrated on residential development, he said the plan was to initiate other such projects elsewhere.

The Daily will be a first of its kind for tablet computers: a general interest publication that will refresh every morning and will bill customers' credit cards each week for 99 cents or each year for $40.

Limalimo Lodge Simien Mountains, Ethiopia This 14-room luxury lodge looking out over the peaks and plateaux of the Simien Mountains will be a first of its kind when it opens in March in northern Ethiopia.

In what was thought to be a first of its kind on such a scale on Wall Street, United States prosecutors used court-ordered wiretaps in their recent case against Raj Rajaratnam, the founder of Galleon Group hedge fund.

This could be a first of developing the system to identify concepts and their relationships (e.g. as proposed in [13]).

Implanting such a "bioartificial" organ would be a first-of-its-kind procedure for the field of regenerative medicine, which for decades has been promising a future of ready-made replacement organs — livers, kidneys, even hearts — built in the laboratory.

Two Harvard professors said Tuesday they were developing a proposal for what would be a first-of-its-kind field experiment to test the risks and effectiveness of a geoengineering technology for intervening in the earth's climate.

In what appeared to be a first-of-its-kind development on a primary night, CNN set up a focus group of undecided Republicans in that state and had them watch the speeches in New Hampshire, then showed a graphic of their real-time feedback.

This summer's biggest blast could well be a first-of-its-kind movie featuring a neutron star.

This appears to be a first-of-its-kind case and we are sure to see many more of these types of inquiries in the future.