Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [prep] [art] [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Digital Equipment Corp has announced that it will offer a new hub backplane , code-named One Hub , in early 1993 , plugging the gap at the high end of the DEChub 90 range and for the first time offering Ethernet , Token Ring , and the Fibre Distributed Data Interface , FDDI , at first , and Asynchronous Transfer Mode high-speed networking technology , when it becomes available , in one product . |
| 2 | It is a language that needs a large memory capacity and for the first time there were machines available to use it . |
| 3 | I think it 's possibly the thirteenth consecutive year I 've been on the committee and for the first time I 've managed to be elected . |
| 4 | The headmistress let out a yell that must have rattled every window-pane in the building and for the second time in the last five minutes she shot out of her chair like a rocket . |
| 5 | The track took a right hand curve and for the first time he saw the bridge standing high above the track . |
| 6 | Nora Fanshawe raised her head and for the first time he saw her smile , an ugly harsh smile of self-mockery . |
| 7 | She accepted a glass of water and for the first time looked round in order to take in the room and the people before her . |
| 8 | He has n't , but on this occasion and for the second time with just over twenty minutes played , the Pisa goalkeeper was picking the ball out of the back of the net . |
| 9 | The situation did n't improve much during the rest of the week and for the first time since Rachel had been working at OBEX she found herself not looking forward to going to work in the mornings . |
| 10 | Le Monde reported on April 26 that the government had decided to reverse previous government policy and for the first time to pay 6,200,000 marks to an Israeli foundation for holocaust survivors . |
| 11 | Immediately , therefore , I was involved in the gay movement and for the first time in my life in a couple relationship . |
| 12 | Sinead 's father John saw the progressive school in Waterford as a last chance for his wayward daughter and for the first time in her life she came across a school where she had nothing to rebel against . |
| 13 | The NILP was represented by a strong contingent which carried the party banner and for the first time Ivan Cooper took a prominent part in the proceedings . |
| 14 | Soon the mousy man became exhausted by struggling with the suitcase and for the first time the Feldwebel carried it for him . |
| 15 | Of those , the Trooper 's got the edge and for the first time leads its own sub-section of 4 × 4 off-roaders . |
| 16 | They arrived in Liverpool after an uneventful railway journey and for the second time in three months Cam walked along the dock wall looking for the Langdale ; but now there was confidence in his stride and eagerness in his face . |
| 17 | They were awake before dawn and for the second time they heard the chorus begin as a trickle and grow swiftly to a torrent as the birds welcomed the great Trumpeter . |
| 18 | Sung , following her , held out his hand and for the first time she let him help her , gripping his hand with a force that took his breath , her fingers tightening convulsively with every little jolt she received . |
| 19 | Mrs Chamorro declined to give interviews while in Washington but in an article published this week , she wrote : ‘ Ten years of living dangerously has brought civil war , an exodus of a fifth of our countrymen , an annual inflation of 30,000 per cent , 40 per cent unemployment and for the first time in our history , mass hunger . |
| 20 | Now , while as if bestowing some order of merit she fastened the beads round my neck , her face wore a motherly expression and for the first time I was with the Aunt Louise of my childhood . |
| 21 | But it is so vindictively cold in this ill-lit room , and my alabaster hand aches so much from the thousands of words I have put down on this unhappy day , and my head still throbs , and my stomach is so empty , and my grief is so heavy , that I think it would be wise of me to break off at this point , this hinge , blow out the once again guttering candle and for the third time today go down the stone stairs to streets where it is always February . |
| 22 | The Ministry of Social Security Act 1966 created the Supplementary Benefits Commission ( SBC ) to administer the supplementary benefit scheme and for the first time those whose resources did not meet their requirements had a legal entitlement to the payment of benefit . |
| 23 | It was , however , his permanent design of the deceptively simple 1920 Whitehall Cenotaph ( originally erected in wood and plaster as a saluting point for the Victory March Past of Allied troops in July 1919 ) that put him in the eye of the general public and for the first time turned Lutyens into a household name . |
| 24 | A frisson of fear scorched down Robyn 's spine and for the first time she recognised the potential danger of her situation . |
| 25 | In the whole history of a people its holiest moment is when it awakens from its unconsciousness and for the first time thinks of its old holy rights . |
| 26 | Now those other products are finally in production and for the first time Excel is going to be judged upon its merits rather than its laurels . |
| 27 | My mind was n't on my driving and for the first time I almost collided with another taxi . |
| 28 | The wife obligingly lifted her arm and for the first time there was a flash of something pale , as if to show that there really was flesh and blood beneath the shapeless black garment . |