Sentence examples for first time official from inspiring English sources

Annual sales of personalised number plates have exceeded £100m for the first time, official figures show.

Wealthy educated men now live longer than the average woman for the first time, official figures show.

The proportion of UK employees enrolled in workplace pension schemes has fallen below 50% for the first time, official statistics show.

The number of workers on zero-hours contracts has increased by more than 100,000 over the past 12 months to exceed 800,000 for the first time, official figures show.

Family judges recently took the highly unusual step of admitting widespread concerns about their safety to the Guardian but this is the first time official details have been disclosed listing the actual risks faced by judges in England and Wales.

For the first time official statisticians are measuring the value to the UK economy of sex work and drug dealing – and they have discovered these unsavoury hidden-economy trades make roughly the same contribution as farming – and only slightly less than book and newspaper publishers added together.

It was the first time officials had found the strain on fresh produce.

And for the first time, officials said, China "expressed concern" about the North's recently disclosed uranium-enrichment plant.

But because Camp Belambi has relatively few soldiers, it is possible that no one was watching when Sergeant Bales left the outpost the first time, officials said.

But when Mr. Miller made his comments at a press conference here on Monday, it was the first time officials have said when an agreement might come.

But this is the first time officials have said the detour may also explain the extra level of potency in that envelope.