Very few committees ever looked past the first few photos.

Gershwin based An American in Paris on a melodic fragment called " Very Parisienne ", written in 1926 on his first visit to Paris as a gift to his hosts, Robert and Mabel Schirmer.

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).

Very often another, working towards the same goal, has arrived there first.

Carnwennan (" Little White-Hilt ") first appears in Culhwch and Olwen, where it was used by Arthur to slice the Very Black Witch in half.

Very transparent gems are considered " first water ", while " second " or " third water " gems are those of a lesser transparency.

The first is through VLF ( Very Low Frequency ) radio waves launched into the magnetosphere.

This makes the Wimseys an unusually ancient family, since " Very few English noble families go that far in the first creation ; rebellions and monarchic head choppings had seen to that " ( as reviewer Janet Hitchman noted in the introduction to Striding Folly ).

Very popular series running more than four seasons may start daily reruns of the first seasons, while production and airings continue of current seasons episodes.

The first of the papers published (" On Very Rapid Electric Oscillations ") gives, generally in the actual order of time, the course of the investigation as far as it was carried out up to the end of the year 1886 and the beginning of 1887.

Very simple weapon use has been observed among chimpanzees, leading to speculation that early hominids began their first use of weapons as early as five million years ago.

In 1980, Tharp's work first appeared on Broadway with Twyla Tharp Dance performing When We Were Very Young, followed in 1981 by The Catherine Wheel, her collaboration with David Byrne at the Winter Garden.

Very often, just one parameter is used to denote the severity of multipath conditions: it is called the multipath time,, and it is defined as the time delay existing between the first and the last received impulses

Very likely, the king himself was the first praetor, but in what sense?

Very early on, Iberian society was composed of Muslims who were at first ethnically Near East Muslims.

His publication in 1890 of infrared observations at the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh together with Frank Washington Very along with the data he collected from his invention, the bolometer, was used by Svante Arrhenius to make the first calculations on the greenhouse effect.

On the death of missionary David Livingstone in 1873, a discolored and much-used copy of one of Spurgeon's printed sermons, " Accidents, Not Punishments ," was found among his few possessions much later, along with the handwritten comment at the top of the first page: " Very good, D. L.

On September 24, 2008, ESO announced what it ascertained was the first optically active magnetar-candidate yet discovered, using ESO's Very Large Telescope.

The Very Reverend Dr James Harkness, first non-Anglican Chaplain-General of the UK Armed Forces and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1995, is from Thornhill.

Very active in the society in its early years, being elected its first president in 1966, he was later made an honorary life president of the society.

The songs " Cruise Control " and " Love Is a Many Splendored Thing " from Very Proud of Ya were used in the 1996 independent film Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore, which was first screened in 1997 and also featured Havok in a small role.

Very early in the fight it became clear that Norton was no longer the caliber of fighter he once was as Cooney's first punch caused Norton's legs to buckle.

Jodrell Bank has been involved with Very Long Baseline Interferometry ( VLBI ) since the late 1960s ; the Lovell telescope took part in the first transatlantic interferometer experiment in 1968, with other telescopes being those at Algonquin and Penticton in Canada.

" Those unfamiliar with Uriah Heep may want to try out Demons and Wizards or a compilation first, but anyone with a serious interest in Uriah Heep or the roots of heavy metal will find plenty to like on Very ' eavy ...

* The Very Reverend Lord MacLeod ( Joint Award )

Very often one of the four Laureates receives an Honorary Award, which means that the other three share the Prize money.

At the 2006 BAFTA TV Awards and International Emmy Award, Hill was nominated for his portrayal of David Blunkett in the one-off satirical drama, A Very Social Secretary.

* Stephen Leacock Award: Roch Carrier, Prayers of a Very Wise Child

In 1975 Houston appeared on the Golden Globe Award broadcast performing the nominated song " On & On " and also was featured in a tribute to Berry Gordy on that year's American Music Award broadcast singing " You've Made Me So Very Happy ".

The following year, on June 13, 2006, Marks gathered with surviving Beach Boys Brian Wilson, Al Jardine, Mike Love and Bruce Johnston on the roof of the landmark Capitol Records building in Hollywood, where all five were presented with an RIAA Platinum record Award in recognition of two million in sales of The Beach Boys CD song collection Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of The Beach Boys.

* In 2005 The Very Thought of You, recorded by Ray Noble and His Orchestra on Victor in 1934, received the Grammy Hall of Fame Award

( Rare Songs, Very Personal ) ( 2005 ), and Turned to Blue ( 2007 ), both won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album.

In March, 2001 Very Special Arts presented Tum-Tum with the Rosemary Kennedy International Young Soloist Award and he was invited to perform at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D. C.

Very Nervous System was awarded the first Petro-Canada Award for Media Arts in 1988 and Austria's Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction for Interactive Art in 1991.

The result is a 7 minute long film Very Nice, Very Nice which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects in 1962.

A student in the undergraduate level is granted Gamal Abdel Nasser Award for Academic Distinction provided that his grade is not less than " Very Good "

Colomby played on the self-titled Blood, Sweat & Tears ' 1970 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, which features the hit songs: " Spinning Wheel ", " And When I Die ", and " You've Made Me So Very Happy " ( all sung by David Clayton-Thomas ).

" It Was a Very Good Year " is a song composed by Ervin Drake in 1961 for and originally recorded by Bob Shane of The Kingston Trio and subsequently made famous by Frank Sinatra's version in D-minor, which won the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male in 1966.

* Very Much a Lady: The Untold Story of Jean Harris and Dr. Herman Tarnower, Edgar Award, Best Fact Crime book, ( 1983 )

*" I'm in Love for the Very First Time " ( from An Alligator Named Daisy )-Ivor Novello Award winner ( 1955 )

She appeared in two critically successful films, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's A Very Long Engagement as Tina Lombardi, for which she won a César Award for Best Supporting Actress, and appeared in the mystery thriller Innocence as Mademoiselle Éva.