1. It was the first time since 1990 that a US president has formally blocked a business transaction or required a sale on such grounds.
2. Live chicken retailers have placed huge orders for the first trading day, as a 21 day ban on the sale of live poultry is lifted today.
3. We encourage everybody to come down here on the first day of the sale.
4. The new credit card is the first of its kind in China, dealing with the payment without touching the point of sale terminals.
5. The custard mooncakes made by Yi Long Court of the Peninsula Shanghai will go on sale for the first time.
6. The sale marks the first time China Life will sell shares to domestic investors and is likely to be the mainland's biggest domestic equity issue.
7. It recently opened the country's first patent exchange centre to promote inventions and the sale of patents.
8. This year Xiong was determined to get home and was the first person in the queue when tickets for the festive period went on sale.
9. Its sales ranks first among gas meter manufacturers over the country, realizing an accumulated sale of 30 million gas meters.
10. Since the first sale of parallel imported goods generally takes place abroad, the IP owner has not exhausted his domestic rights.