Example sentences of "[prep] perhaps the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 2 | ‘ But I have n't done anything — except be an absolute misery , ’ she added honestly as she realised for perhaps the first time what a wet blanket she had been . |
| 3 | ‘ I think , for perhaps the first and only time in his life , William had been trying to shake off his obsession , and he did it by getting as far away from temptation as possible . |
| 4 | For perhaps the first time in her life there was no feeling of restlessness deep in her soul , no desire to be somewhere else . |
| 5 | This time last night she 'd been lying in Dane 's arms , feeling safe , secure , at peace with the world for perhaps the first time in her troubled life . |
| 6 | By now she was really yelling , letting her natural feelings show for perhaps the first time in her conscious life . |
| 7 | Laura had felt , for perhaps the first time since her husband 's reappearance in her life , the warmth of a shared companionship . |
| 8 | FOR perhaps the 50th time since lunch , the hotline rings . |
| 9 | It is a compromise between all three , with perhaps the first least apparent and the third most in evidence . |
| 10 | From 1953 to 1964 we built up that factory into perhaps the second largest of its kind in the world and certainly the largest and best in Europe . |
| 11 | Casting was practised here from the 13th to perhaps the mid-16th century AD , though terracotta sculpture was practised earlier . |
| 12 | He belonged to perhaps the last generation in which it was possible to be very successful in science by making one 's own way , rather than following a standard pattern . |