Example sentences of "[be] the [adj] time in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be the first time in 15 years that an England tour party has not included one of the celebrated trio , who between them have appeared in 298 Test matches . |
| 2 | I 've done it five , this is the first time in five years I 've had New Year 's Eve off . |
| 3 | ‘ It is the first time in eleven years as a manager that I have not worked with a contract and it is like an air of freedom . ’ |
| 4 | This is the first time in 20 years I have felt any hope . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It is the first time in thousands of holidays that we have lost any clients . ’ |
| 6 | Commentator Tom Tyrell said : ‘ This is the first time in 22 years that this station has been shut out in this way . |
| 7 | ‘ It is the first time in 30 years that an international financial institution has been created , and we are not simply a bank , but also a political endeavour . |
| 8 | This is the second time in two years that Strathclyde has threatened to halt work on the Ayr Road Route . |
| 9 | It is the third time in four weeks that Colchester ladies have won team medals . |
| 10 | It 's the second time in two years a ban has been considered — last time the council threw it out . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's the second time in twenty-four hours I 've had a swim in that damned water . |
| 12 | It 's the 5th time in 4 years that Margaret Jebbit has had to clean up her kitchen after flooding . |
| 13 | It 's the third time in 2 years his house has been raided and the second in the space of a week . |
| 14 | It was the second time in eight months that Barre had changed the government , and no official reasons were given for the changes , but Barre called on the new Cabinet , sworn in on Sept. 5 , to solve the current civil war and economic crisis . |
| 15 | It was the second time in 24 hours that they had acted to stop a party in the county . |
| 16 | In 1941 , after a brief and inauspicious period of Vichy French rule , Lebanon was again occupied by Allied armies ; it was the second time in 24 years that British troops had crossed the southern frontier from Palestine . |
| 17 | Austen Chamberlain was equally enthusiastic at the time , but later put the occasion into somewhat more critical perspective by saying that it was the only time in fourteen years that he had ever known Baldwin to influence a Cabinet decision . |
| 18 | It was the first time in fourteen years that he was travelling alone , his best friend having died of pneumonia only weeks before . |
| 19 | On Saturday they lost to Bath by 20 points to nil … and here 's a fact to blow your socks off it was the first time in 16 years and 420 games that the cherry and whites have failed to score at home |
| 20 | It was the first time in two decades that a British bike was beating the Japanese and for British biking enthusiasts it was stirring stuff . |
| 21 | It was the third time in five years the council had considered a motion to ban hunting . |
| 22 | It was the third time in eight games that the margin of victory had been just two runs . |
| 23 | This was the third time in six months that the federal government had intervened in state politics to redress alleged fraud . |
| 24 | It was the third time in three weeks that such ugly scenes had been witnessed at London grounds . |
| 25 | It was the fourth time in five years she had been injured in the line of duty . |
| 26 | It was the fourth time in five years that Gotti , whose elegant sartorial taste had earned him the nickname " Dapper Don " , had been indicted . |
| 27 | At thirty-two years of age , Chrissie Stone could take the occasional shock to her system , but this was the fourth time in two weeks that she had slept late , and it was beginning to get her down . |