This record was broken multiple times during these Games, the prior instances being:

As in prior instances, he was defeated.

But here, as in several prior instances, Judge Ito confounded expectations.

However, there were at least two prior instances of where Kouwe was informed by people at The Times of his apparent acts of impropriety.

In half the cases, the social service agency knew of prior instances of abuse or neglect.

Private individuals have been convicted of spying for Cuba, but federal officials said they knew of no prior instance of the arrest of an American government official.

"There are no prior instances," Mr. Romano said.

There had been no prior instance in American graduate student unionization history where a unionization proposal was defeated by a vote.

"In that time, were there any prior instances when your vessel came under threat of destruction when entering a system that appeared uninhabited?"

"The commission in prior instances has intended to be reasonable and fair in its construction of the rules," he said today.