So, take a 16-year-old girl having sex with her boyfriend, whom she loves beyond measure, for the first time - so far, so Hollyoaks.
The Central Intelligence Agency used armed Predators extensively there to attack suspected Qaeda leaders and expanded its killer-drone operations beyond Afghanistan for the first time on Sunday, blasting Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi and five associates in Yemen.
In two months, we will celebrate Joanne Rowling's 51st and Harry Potter's 36th birthday, but, beyond that, for the first time in the history there will be a Potter play!
However, the southern regions of England continued to enjoy the strongest rates of growth, and the society said the gap between house prices in the north and the south of England had reached a new high, rising beyond £100,000 for the first time.
Today, it's making the jump beyond smartphones for the first time, with newly added support for Chromebook computers.
That means there are no Scottish clubs in Europe beyond August for the first time since the inception of European club competition in 1956.
Today it looks beyond Facebook for the first time, teaming up with MoPub to serve ads on thousands of mobile apps and sites.
There's far less copying and a great deal more invention – innovation that is going beyond China for the first time as China tech goes global, says angel investor Evdemon.
Backed by the likes of Google, Tencent and Meituan, Go-Jek is in the process of raising $2 billion in new capital while this year it has finally expanded beyond Indonesia for the first time.
The study by Beyond Zero Emissions showed for the first time that the capital costs of high-speed rail could be repaid over a 40-year time frame, making it a commercially attractive proposition not dissimilar to a toll road.
