Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Blake was content for the first time in days . |
| 32 | MIKE GATTING yesterday warned his England team-mates that the winter tour 's second leg in Sri Lanka will be not be easy after the torrid time in India . |
| 33 | Even so , I did find it disappointing that financial matters occupied so much of the non-playing time at both the Association of Tennis Professionals Tour finals in Frankfurt and the Virginia Slims Championships in New York in November . |
| 34 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what has been the rate of growth of self-employment from 1979 to the present time among ( a ) men and ( b ) women . |
| 35 | You have over DM 50 million tied up in the project but you are very patient about the eventual time of launch . |
| 36 | Moreover , hitherto unexploited elements of warfare — defensive barbed wire and massed machine-guns — were being deployed along the whole front of some 563km/350mls , manned for the first time in history by millions of men . |
| 37 | The sense of failure that haloed his bowed head made Clare conscious for the first time of his identity as a person . |
| 38 | She is married for the second time to a man 15 years her junior . |
| 39 | As investors and the better-paid alike give thanks for their deliverance , that most essential and intangible ingredient for economic recovery — confidence — is suddenly present for the first time in three years . |
| 40 | In 1933 the Nazis increased their number of seats on the Volkstag to 38 , and were present for the first time in sufficient numbers to have an effect on the business and workings of the chamber . |
| 41 | The Ecumenical Jury , which was present for the first time in 1989 , included members of the Russian Orthodox Church , OCIC , and Interfilm . |
| 42 | The conversion into owner-farmers of those who had hitherto been tenants or agricultural labourers provided many for the first time with genuine prospects of making a decent living , unburdened by debts , high rents or heavy taxes . |
| 43 | I wondered what on earth John would think if he saw all this ; his friends in church , many for the first time in years , strangers saying prayers for him , me weeping over his photograph . |
| 44 | The new organisation is concerned by the increase in 1992 for the first time in six years of fur imports to £22 million , the equivalent of two million animals , and a renewed popularity in fur clothing or trimmings . |
| 45 | The Collective State Presidency , excluding the Slovene representative Janez Drnovsek , met on July 4 for the first time with Mesic as President [ see p. 38275 ] . |
| 46 | Show that the mean value of the force F between the two rings ( i.e. averaged over the periodic time of the alternating current ) is given by |
| 47 | On the morning of the operation , Mr Reynolds was allowed nothing to eat or drink ( for 6 hours prior to the scheduled time for the surgery ) . |
| 48 | Some of these private banks issued too many notes and caused banking panics as large numbers of their own customers ( and holders ) presented notes all at the same time for redemption in gold . |
| 49 | Earlier , there had been fighting at Mannar on Aug. 1 as the LTTE attacked an advancing troop convoy ; naval artillery was used against rebel positions on Aug. 3 for the first time since the resumption of large-scale fighting on June 11 ; and a major clash took place on Aug. 4-5 , involving the repulsing of an unsuccessful rebel attack against the Jaffna fort . |
| 50 | I liked it all , because I was lonely for the first time in my life , and an itinerant . |
| 51 | Group sales exceeded £10 billion for the first time as the Group served over ten million customers each week . |
| 52 | Britain 's current-account deficit shrank to £192m ( $377m ) in February ; the 12-month visible-trade deficit fell below $30 billion for the first time since mid-1988 . |
| 53 | ISLANDERS in the tiny Pacific state of Palau vote in a referendum on February 6 for the seventh time on a deal with the United States which would give the US strategic military rights in the Western Pacific only 500 miles from the troubled Philippines . |
| 54 | Demand is growing , so the sight of wild boar wallowing in the mud could become commonplace for the first time since the sixteenth century . |
| 55 | I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more . |
| 56 | Then he attacked with venom and had Thornton looking troubled for the only time in the fight . |
| 57 | I was full for the first time in two weeks . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | Taking those within 1–2 years of the pension age first , non-manual workers had spent nearly one-third more of the intervening time between redundancy and interview in retirement than skilled manual workers ( 85.7 per cent and 66.8 per cent respectively ) . |
| 60 | ( 5.35 ) : High-voltage supply , The bilevel drive has the merit of simplicity , because the only control circuitry required is concerned with the switching time of transistor T2 at the beginning of each excitation interval . |