Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun pl] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In August 1899 , Joseph revisited his Valley of Winding Waters for the first time in twenty-two years . |
| 2 | The French authorities did something to safeguard communal property among their Moslem subjects in Algeria , even though Napoleon III ( in the Senatus-Consulte of 1863 ) found it inconceivable that individual property rights in land should not be established formally among the members of Moslem communities ‘ where possible and opportune ’ , a measure which actually had the effect of permitting Europeans for the first time to buy them out . |
| 3 | DOTING couple Alf and Jean Smith are on speaking terms for the first time in TEN YEARS . |
| 4 | Two TODAY reporters took their children on skiing trips for the first time . |
| 5 | We were famous for bombarding teams for the first 20 mins of games … beating them into submission … p[laying at a pace . |
| 6 | As one commentator noted wryly , there are more companies announcing Pentium-based machines then there are actual processors : a couple of dozen manufacturers spread their wares and Intel topped the whole thing off by announcing prices for the first time , and they are not cheap — 60MHz Pentiums cost $878 , while the 66MHz chip is $965 in quantities of 1,000 . |