Sentence examples for first closure from inspiring English sources

That was the park's first closure since the second world war.

Designed to be strike-proof, the DLR experienced its first closure by strike action in its 28-year history.

It is the first closure of a national newspaper in Britain since Today was shut down, also by Murdoch, in 1995.

Holloway will be the first closure under the scheme, which will see the prison sites sold off to build some 3,000 new homes.

Regulators on Friday shuttered a Florida bank, the first closure of 2011 after 157 banks succumbed last year to the struggling economy and mounting bad loans.

PSA Peugeot has announced the first closure of a French car factory for 20 years.The good news is that Mr Hollande and Pierre Moscovici, his finance minister, have at last woken up to the need to act.

Smith has announced REI will shut two stores, the first closures in REI's history.

And difficult times for the business of racing were highlighted by the closure of Folkestone and Hereford racecourses, the first closures of long-established tracks in 30 years.

Although Davies says that relations between astronomers and STFC have improved since the first closures were announced 2 years ago, "there remains a sense that STFC is not listening".

Regulators on Friday shut down a small bank in Georgia, the third closure of 2011 after last year's toll of 157 banks.

Accordingly, 90-second "closure" for UB became the most compelling claim to fame on the part of Big Brother poster girl Chantelle Houghton and the sometime pop singer she married, Preston of the Ordinary Boys.