Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] the [adj] time in " 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 | For perhaps the first time in her life there was no feeling of restlessness deep in her soul , no desire to be somewhere else . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By now she was really yelling , letting her natural feelings show for perhaps the first time in her conscious life . |
| 5 | The series was alight — only for it to be thoroughly dampened in Guyana when relentless rain washed out the second Test completely , for only the fifth time in Test history . |
| 6 | Swan put Hull ahead with a close-range shot , but Plymouth , who dropped their captain , Tommy Tynan , for only the second time in seven years , equalised throughCampbell before Terry hit Hull 's winner . |
| 7 | The Edinburgh team , missing Tony Hand with an injured wrist , could now fail to reach Wembley for only the second time in nine years . |
| 8 | Murrayfield Racers , with just a point from three games , appear destined to miss Wembley for only the second time in nine years , but were unlucky to lose 5-4 at Durham . |
| 9 | For only the second time in the 103-year history of the Army Cup , a unit has won the coveted trophy for three years in succession . |
| 10 | Already Chelsea fans are talking with conviction about the club winning the championship for only the second time in its history . |
| 11 | Three more tries followed to rub more salt into Trinity 's wounds and put Crusaders into the second round of the Regal Trophy for only the second time in their history . |
| 12 | The switch has surprised Wembley , who expected a home game against Spain , and has disappointed the Spanish FA , who hoped they were being invited to London for only the second time in 20 years . |
| 13 | In the first quarter of 1980 the ICI group was making profits at a rate of six hundred million pounds a year and in the third quarter we posted a loss for only the second time in our history . |
| 14 | When the property came up for sale , for only the second time in its long history , a telegram was despatched to Honora , who was working in London : ‘ Will you invest savings in Plas ? ’ |
| 15 | The United Kingdom failed to secure re-election to the Commission for a further three-year term , for only the second time in the Commission 's history . |
| 16 | The 17-year-old Cuemasters youngster from Wishaw has now reached the last 16 of a ranking tournament for only the second time in his fledgling career . |
| 17 | Offering an agenda for change during bad economic times , the 46year-old Arkansas governor harnessed his youth , dogged determination and a passion for politics to unseat a sitting elected president for only the eighth time in US history . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the ECA report noted that in 1989 food production in Africa had actually grown faster than population , for only the third time in 20 years ( 3.4 per cent , against population growth of 3.2 per cent ) , and that food imports had fallen by 12 per cent . |
| 19 | So why is it , for almost the first time in 150 years , Yorkshire can not contribute a single regular member to the England team ? |
| 20 | Suddenly , and for almost the first time in her life , apart from in her dreams , Marie felt that she was in a position of power . |
| 21 | Within a few years of this last attempt by an emperor to rally the Roman empire to paganism , a Greek bishop could speak of Julian 's pagan revival as a misguided attempt to introduce ‘ novelties ’ in place of the traditional religion ; but at much the same time in the West , Christians were still regarded as outside the mainstream of respectable upper-class culture , as the foolish minority who rejected the wise and hallowed traditions of their forefathers which had made Rome great . |
| 22 | Mountaineering in the Pyrenees began , early in the nineteenth century , with the very practical ascents made by the mappers and surveyors , but it continued , in climbers such as Russell , with something of the flair and eccentricity with which it was also evolving at much the same time in the Alps . |
| 23 | That decided , I bait the swim every other day at approximately the same time in the evening , for this will teach the carp that there is food available from a certain time . |
| 24 | Parallel upheavals occur at roughly the same time in jazz , where modern styles , and , in a different way , the revivalist movement , challenge the hegemony of crooners and commercial dance-bands ; and in elite music culture , where the earlier modernist outburst , headed by Schoenberg and Stravinsky , is matched by the iconoclasm of the post-war avant-garde led by Boulez , Stockhausen and C age . |