Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] time for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He managed to stay off alcohol because for the first time for a very long time he was truly afraid . |
| 2 | For the first time for a long while , Corbett felt wanted and warmed to these simple yet sophisticated men so bound up in their own routine of prayer , work and study that they regarded any visitor as a visible sign of God 's grace . |
| 3 | ‘ Father Tom , ’ he said , as if he were meeting Carey for the first time for a long time . |
| 4 | For the first time for a century woman discovered that men wanted something more human from them than a nun-like chastity , a bien pensant idealism . |
| 5 | I 'll stick my neck out , come on , we 're going to say they 're going to do it , for the first time for a long long time . |