Example sentences of "for the [adj] time since the " in BNC.

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1 For the second time since the 19th century the value of the try has been changed and for the second time this century the drop goal value has been altered .
2 General Motors and Ford both expect to lose money on car manufacturing this quarter for the first time since the 1982 recession , largely as a result of overcapacity in the market .
3 The three major US car makers saw their stock prices decline after analysts predicted quarterly losses on their North American businesses for the first time since the 1982 recession .
4 For the first time since the end of the Falklands war there was , also , a less than total confidence among ministers in the certainty of the coming victory at the polls .
5 At last the ‘ special relationship ’ seemed to have some meaning , perhaps for the first time since the days of Macmillan .
6 The House of Commons met on a Saturday for the first time since the war .
7 For the first time since the end of censorship , the Polish press ( long plagued by communist traditions of slanted reporting ) conducted a public argument neutrally and eloquently .
8 More broadly even than that , for the first time since the 1930s finance is taking centre stage in debates about economic policy , industrial competitiveness and even relative political power .
9 On Sunday , for the first time since the Gulf war , Iraq flew combat aircraft up to the 36th parallel in violation of UN resolutions .
10 For the first time since the 1950s the UK is now a net exporter of television sets .
11 At the funeral Judith comes to terms with grief for the first time since the birth .
12 What with Mrs Clements and the girls also gone for the week , I suppose I was very conscious of the fact that once I departed , Darlington Hall would stand empty for probably the first time this century — perhaps for the first time since the day it was built .
13 It is a curious miscellany , where photographs of his early ballets are mixed in with family snap-shots , pictures of his friends , souvenirs of journeys , Christmas and other greetings , a book of clothing coupons from the days of rationing , costume drawings and various illustrations cut from magazines , including a feature on Roland Petit 's ballet Carmen and examples of the ‘ new look ’ in women 's clothes when long skirts came back to fashion for the first time since the war ; he proposed a ballet about that , but it was rejected .
14 For the first time since the Southern League Championship of 1909 a major honour was within reach .
15 And he notices his lover 's leg for the first time since the last time .
16 Poland had access to a coastline for the first time since the early seventeenth century .
17 When Elizabeth 's mother and sister had gone to Leeds , Elizabeth and George had the house to themselves for the first time since the early days of their marriage .
18 On the contrary , May Day in 1990 and Revolution Day in 1989 and 1990 were , for the first time since the early 1920s , occasions for protest , for the people 's indictment of their rulers .
19 What the Saxon invasion did primarily was to reorganise most of Sussex as a distinct political unit , firmly independent for the first time since the Regni .
20 Yesterday the region — once the engine room of the late Eighties boom — saw its jobless total top 10 per cent for the first time since the end of the Second World War .
21 He looked at her for the first time since the beginning ; her head was still turned away , her hands over her face ; she had shown no further response to anything he had done .
22 For the first time since the outbreak of war , the Revolution had brought to power a Government prepared to break ranks with the Allied stance of no peace without victory .
23 The Communist Youth League magazine , Zhongguo Qingnian , was published for the first time since the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution in September 1978 .
24 The exhibition , running until 27 June , comprises 130 items from French and Spanish collections including vessels carved in semiprecious stones and mounted in enamelled and jewelled gold , from the ‘ tresor ’ of the Grand Dauphin , presented in France for the first time since the eighteenth century , and works by French painters such as Michel-Ange Houasse , Louis-Michel Van Loo and Jean Ranc and sculptors Rene Fremin and Jean Thierry , who were commissioned by Philip to decorate his palaces .
25 The net change in capital account was approximately £4,700m which , overall , made Britain an international debtor for the first time since the eighteenth century .
26 A second problem is that corporate profits are already depressed , having declined for three years in a row for the first time since the second world war .
27 One further return to Carolingian precedent occurred at the very end of Louis VII 's reign , when coinage from the king 's mints and bearing his image began to circulate outside the royal demesne for the first time since the late ninth century .
28 I refer not only to the fact that the match started with two wides , courtesy of Chris Lewis ; not only to the strange sight of an opening bowler in odd socks ( Neil Mallender black left sock , white right sock ) ; not only to the fact that England had no player with three initials for the first time since the third Test against New Zealand in 1990 , the selectors having left out Salisbury and having sent get-well-soon messages to DeFreitas , Tufnell and Fraser ; not only to the fact that Mallender joined the huge list of Test opening bowlers with a double ‘ I ’ in their name ( a list that in recent years has included Dilley , Allott , Small , Williams and Ellison : expect Millns to add his name to the pile soon .
29 The Palace owns the matching mitre and the two garments are reunited for the first time since the 1930s .
30 For the first time since the beginning of the Vietnam War , Congress had acted decisively to limit the powers of the President in foreign policy .
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