Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] for [art] [num ord] time " in BNC.

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1 Under a new law , proposed during the fifth session of the eighth National Assembly ( which convened in Hanoi on June 20-30 , 1989 ) , non-CPV members were allowed to stand as candidates for the first time .
2 Of birds for the first time ever heard ,
3 and at the end of the national hunt racing season … celebrations for Gloucestershire 's top stables … trainer David Nicholson reached a century of winners for the first time and champion jockey Richard Dunwoody finished with 173 … a record year for them both
4 She also looked great — out of dungarees for the first time and into a becomingly simple black dress .
5 There was a certain rapprochement though , as Mary came down with her things in the back-pack Rufus had lent her and wearing jeans and a pair of sandals for the first time for days .
6 The seminars , which will be held in Dundee and Glasgow , will focus on the second phase of general SVQs , though they may also include workshops for centres wanting to pilot the first batch of awards for the first time .
7 Their most pressing concern was the seven-year-old Iran-Iraq war , and the Palestine question was pushed to the bottom of the list of priorities for the first time in the history of the Arab League .
8 She sobs loudly in his arms , relieved of the company of strangers for the first time .
9 Under the Government 's fund-holding initiative , doctors have control over their own spending on behalf of patients for the first time .
10 The colonisation of new land , and its demarcation into private estates , created thousands of miles of boundaries for the first time .
11 He was able to provide information on age , sex , and growth of whales for the first time without killing , touching , marking , or molesting a single animal .
12 The Reform Act of 1832 laid the foundations of electoral democracy by tidying up the system — for instance , getting rid of ‘ rotten boroughs ’ , small or almost non-existent places that could return MPs — and setting up a register of voters for the first time .
13 Bob Hope , the master of ceremonies for the umpteenth time , unfunnily and inaccurately joked about Dustin 's youthfulness , saying , ‘ They nominated a kid like Dustin Hoffman — he made a picture he ca n't get in to see .
14 From him , I heard of leys for the first time , and learned that he had found alignments of tree clumps in the countryside around his home .
15 Ms Hargreaves admitted that one potentially lucrative source of sponsorship had dried up two days previously , when two-year-old Kate stepped out of nappies for the last time .
16 As Nell followed , the rows of screens for the first time were blank , showing no signs of life .
17 He felt like an infant staggering uncertainly out of doors for the first time into the infinitude of the universe .
18 By Tuesday , he was able to venture out of doors for the first time since arriving home , late and ailing , on Thursday night .
19 It 's difficult to think about things for the first time in the heat of the moment , so plan it out now .
20 This was the classic showman speaking and on this occasion he was directing his remarks directly at those intellectuals whom his films had brought into cinemas for the first time .
21 More than three-quarters of the requested items which were at binding were serial parts being bound into volumes for the first time .
22 A chapel-reared Cornish boy , he was far from home , working in Salisbury , drinking in pubs for the first time in his life , sleeping rough in a wood .
23 ‘ I just want to get this season over and start from fresh again , ’ added the ring-rusty world No 55 , also forced to play in glasses for the first time .
24 As we prayed for him it was clear that the Holy Spirit was touching him powerfully , and he began to speak in tongues for the first time .
25 Later on in the morning , a class of 15 and 16 year olds is painting in oils for the first time .
26 By the second half of the 1980s , total spending on African education had exceeded that for whites for the first time , though Africans make up 70 per cent of the population and whites only 17 per cent .
27 Earlier , as the government and ANC took steps at the weekend to prepare for South Africa 's first all-race elections , President FW de Klerk gave cabinet posts to non-whites for the first time in South Africa 's history and got rid of white ministers said to be reluctant to back his sweeping apartheid reforms .
28 At the same time governing bodies were made accountable to parents for the first time .
29 The youngster of today who comes to grips for the first time with a personal computer little imagines the wealth of mathematical inventiveness invested in the design of the software and in the electronic circuitry itself .
30 I am doing this without glasses , and what is so marvellous is that I can play the piano without glasses for the first time for at least 12 years .
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