Example sentences of "[be] [adv] the first time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not the first time in his career that Mr Bond , condemned for unconventional and perhaps sometimes dubious business tactics , has teetered on the brink of bankruptcy . |
| 2 | And it 's not the first time by any means . |
| 3 | Chairman I think this is probably the first time in this council chamber in twenty years that er I will probably have spoken on er social services issues er and I speak from an entirely private capacity and any information that er that comes my way is from what I might call informed members of the public erm , people who I come into contact with and from my own experiences as a ward councillor and from as we all do from time to time , my own family experience , my own domestic experiences and I do know something about the problems which are associated with the the care of elderly people er although I do n't have that problem now erm things have taken their course . |
| 4 | Soon after the eruption last year , Brian Toon , of the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffatt Field , California , was quoted as saying , ‘ this is really the first time in modern meteorology that something has happened that has the potential to affect the climate . |
| 5 | ‘ This is n't the first time in the past two years he 's stalked out of our house in a jealous rage , swearing that this time our relationship is over for good . ’ |
| 6 | It was n't the first time in the Church and especially amongst the orthodoxly successful echelons of bishops and archdeacons , that Theodora had met a reluctance to tangle with that eminence grise , Gilbert Racy . |