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1853 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 4 Dec. 1/5 The view of New Orleans which the first time visitor obtains of it, if he comes by water, is peculiarly striking.

1882 Manch. Guardian 24 Feb. 6/3 We have a new concerto of Brahm's to notice—not to mention the ‘first time’ performance of Herr Joachim's ‘variations’.

1951 Princeton Alumni Weekly 28 Sept. 24/1 Ben and wife, Priscilla, became first-time parents on July 23 of 1951 with the arrival of young Josephine Hale.

1964 Financial Times 31 Jan. 23/3 In first-time dealings, Stone-Platt 6¼ per cent. debentures opened and closed at 97 against the recent placing price of 97¼.

1989 J. Burchill in Sex & Sensibility (1992) 41 A first-time surplus of young men (a million in Britain alone) meant that women were no longer strutting their stuff in a buyers' market.

2011 P. Tolmie in M. H. Szymanski & J. Whalen Making Work Visible iii. 59 When turbulence happens do first-time flyers routinely panic and cry out ‘What's going on? Are we going to crash?’ when everyone around..hasn't even looked up?

1966 Times 18 July 15/1 It also appeals to first-time buyers so there is little hold-up of sales pending the disposal of former dwellings.

1973 Times 9 Oct. 4/4 The Building Societies Association was taken unawares by the Government's specific proposals to help first-time buyers.

1986 What Mortgage June 8/2 Two out of every five applicants for new mortgages were first time buyers.

2008 D. Lodge Deaf Sentence (2009) iv. 45 These properties..still dominate the district, interspersed with more recent post-WW2 redbrick developments—low-profile blocks of flats and tiny terraced town houses for first-time buyers.