Sentence examples for first ever operation from inspiring English sources

Last autumn, a decade of work culminated in the first ever operation to use eye cells, grown from stem cells in a lab, to build a patch over the damaged part of the eye.

"I am a bit nervous," said salvage master Nick Sloane as he headed out to the wreck on Monday morning to oversee the first-ever operation to float a ship of this size, two and a half years after it sank in a disaster that left 32 people dead.

In the first-ever operation of its kind, scientists working in Siberia have excavated a huge chunk of permanently frozen soil containing the remains of a 23,000-year-old woolly mammoth.

In Port San Antonio, Texas, the Indian company Indo-MIM announced that it would establish its first ever manufacturing operations in the United States, with operations slated to commence by fall of 2016.

Surgeons at the National Heart Hospital, London, last night carried out the first ever heart transplant operation in Britain.

16 April 1955: Doctors in America declared that the nation's 166-year war against polio was almost certainly at an end. 4 May 1968: Surgeons at the National Heart Hospital, London, carried out the first ever heart transplant operation in Britain.

So it is one of history's ironies that NATO should now find itself waging its first ever ground combat operations in the very place where the Soviet armed forces finally came to grief: Afghanistan.This is not NATO's first military operation.

Surgeons have carried out the first ever robotic open-heart operations in Britain at the New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton.

Following two consecutive last-place finishes, the Red Sox hired Dave Dombrowski to be their first ever president of baseball operations last August.

Birmingham saw the first ever use of radiography in an operation, and the UK's first ever hole-in-the-heart operation was performed at Birmingham Children's Hospital.

The system is in operation, providing the first ever S-DARS service.