It had its first outing in 2011, its second in 2012.
It was its first outing and, talking on the phone outside Canary Wharf underground station, I had it held neatly under my arm – no further thought given.
On its first outing, it flopped.
On its first outing it was by many ambiguously praised as the thinking person's weepie, then scooped up the ultimate prize of the Cannes Palme d'Or.
On its first outing it beat ITV1's stalwart drama Agatha Christie's Marple, although the next two episodes lost out to Wild at Heart and Dancing on Ice.
On its first outing, it was given new German dialogue, awkwardly scripted to give us double entendres in the English surtitles, irrespective of whether the German was risqué or not.
It dropped about 30percentt from its first outing last week.
The new NBC drama "Awake" was among the best reviewed shows of the television season and, by NBC's current standards, it performed respectably well in its first outing Thursday night.
The company's valuation of $14 billion, however, is well below the $29 billion that KKR paid in 2007 when it bought out First Data and took the company private after its first outing in the public markets.
Too many false alarms, and people will ignore them.The NHC's new aeroplane had its first outing on July 13th, when it was sent to examine a tropical storm named "Claudette".
It's a pity then, that on its first outing the work is so muddled.
