Example sentences of "yesterday [prep] the [adj] time in " in BNC.

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1 Hodgson was in the witness box yesterday for the first time in the trial — now in its fifth week .
2 ‘ I thought I might have to sell my ticket , ’ added Birch , who returned to action yesterday for the first time in six months .
3 A FRENCH prisoner in Nazi Germany who stayed behind the Iron Curtain after the Second World War for the love of a Ukrainian woman returned home yesterday for the first time in 52 years .
4 Mr Ashdown descended on the area yesterday for the third time in his marathon campaign amid growing recognition among Tories that the South-West could prove their Achilles ' heel , a danger underlined by the Press Association opinion poll which showed a swing against the Conservatives in the region of six per cent .
5 The 12 governors met yesterday for the third time in a week at Bush House , in London .
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