Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there is the maddening fact that , of the five great investigative Ws ( who ? what ? where ? when ? and why ? ) , we can still only account for the first four in the matter of the Watergate break-in . |
| 2 | ‘ They are given a topic straight away to revise for the first exam — which is at 9am the following morning . |
| 3 | It is also now analysing for the first time in a quantitative way the changing social and cultural characteristics of small towns . |
| 4 | He also publicly acknowledged for the first time that he was a recovering " drug addict " who had behaved in a " degrading and outrageous " way . |
| 5 | Both knew that the other knew that Steve and Maria Luisa had n't just met for the first time . |