Sentence examples for granted for the first from inspiring English sources

It was announced last year that the playwright's estate had granted, for the first time, the rights to record all the plays for the radio archives.

Planning permission has been granted for the first phase of a multi-million pound regeneration of Wokingham town centre.

Subsidies turned the NPV of afforestation slightly positive but it remained at 3,000 EUR ha-1 in the range of the beech forest (Figure 4a) because an afforestation premium was granted for the first 20 years only and agricultural subsidies ceased.

Permission was granted for the first batch of fifteen locomotives in March 1928, but this was reduced to ten when it became apparent that they would not immediately be able to operate on the Hastings route.

Subsidies turned the NPV of afforestation slightly positive but it remained at 3,000 EUR ha-1 in the range of the beech forest because an afforestation premium was granted for the first 20 years only and agricultural subsidies ceased.

The result has been a series of messy and expensive court battles, and growing doubts about the effectiveness of patent systems as a spur to innovation, just as their importance should be getting bigger (see article).In 1998 America introduced so-called "business-method" patents, granting for the first time patent monopolies simply for new ways of doing business, many of which were not so new.

In 1998, after a legislative battle, King signed a law granting, for the first time, island dwellers legal control of a three-mile ring of water around their island.

Cat-lovers in London are set to purr with anticipation after planning permission was finally granted for the city's first cat café.

Hence, the first approval granted for the PsA-TT vaccine was for export purposes only.

Contribute with Guardian Witness Lancashire council will decide on Tuesday whether to grant permission for the first new fracking sites in the UK in four years, amounting to a major expansion of shale gas industry.

That is the case with grants for the first of its initiatives — what the philanthropy calls "predict and prevent".