Example sentences of "[adv] this is the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that 's true of the women , but of course an awful lot of our young men erm come from all boys ' schools and quite a lot of our young women from all girls ' schools , so this is the first time , when they get to Oxford , that they are interacting with each other , on a day-to-day basis I should say , and I think that in itself will they are not sure how to act towards each other and there 's going to be confusions . |
| 2 | Barry is ready for his hols so this is the last time we will see the talking sweater in action . |
| 3 | He 's been in the business a long time but believe it or not this is the first time he 's been inside for over twenty years . |
| 4 | As Robert points out this is the first time that this function has been run as a single corporate entity . |
| 5 | The short-term store has a limit of about twenty seconds unless there is opportunity for rehearsal , e.g. this is the maximum time available between looking up a telephone number and then dialling it unless the operator repeats it to himself . |
| 6 | Now this is the first time I 've seen these and I ca n't say whether they 're right , wrong bad of indifferent , All I can say is that this was the intention . |
| 7 | Well this is the first time I 've been |
| 8 | Well I said to Mr , I said well this is the first time I 've sat in your lounge for nearly two years . |
| 9 | Well this is the last time this hospital we hope . |
| 10 | Well this is the fourth time Okay . |
| 11 | If the product to be sampled is important enough to rate a press launch then this is the obvious time to organise the sampling . |
| 12 | Yet this is the very time we ask teenagers to make career choices , which may partly explain the findings that by age 35 over 60 per cent of men and women will say they chose the wrong career . |