Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There was a certain rapprochement though , as Mary came down with her things in the back-pack Rufus had lent her and wearing jeans and a pair of sandals for the first time for days . |
| 32 | It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said . |
| 33 | And Port Vale are set to take around 22,000 fans to the twin towers for the second time in a week . |
| 34 | Three seminars were recently held for general SVQ co-ordinators from schools , colleges , and other centres offering the awards for the first time in August 1993 . |
| 35 | What a pleasure it is to hear some of these pieces for the first time in clear digital sound ! |
| 36 | In January and February , three seminars were held for centres that will be piloting general SVQs for the first time from next session . |
| 37 | Victory against the RCS is a necessity for Wales , and if they can follow that up with wins against Cyprus next month and Romania at home , they will have qualified for the World Cup finals for the first time since 1958 . |
| 38 | AMATEUR drama lovers have vowed the show will go on despite being bombed out of the venue for their drama finals for the second time in two days . |
| 39 | The youngster of today who comes to grips for the first time with a personal computer little imagines the wealth of mathematical inventiveness invested in the design of the software and in the electronic circuitry itself . |
| 40 | Hall fire : A Huyton community centre has been attacked by arsonists for the third time in a month . |
| 41 | Bush issued an executive order on Aug. 22 which called up US military reservists for the first time since 1968 ( for the Vietnam war ) and as the month progressed there was increasing US pressure for other countries ( particularly its NATO allies ) to contribute ground forces to Saudi Arabia . |
| 42 | President Bush issues an executive order calling up US military reservists for the first time since 1968 . |
| 43 | On March 20 and October 9 , Saturn and Pluto cross swords for the first time in two decades . |
| 44 | Nissan sponsored the championships for the first time as part of its community relations work . |
| 45 | The allegations , which coincided with the opening in October of a fatal accident inquiry into the Lockerbie air disaster [ see p. 37732 ] , raised questions for the first time about the widely held view that the bombing had been the work of a German-based cell of the PFLP-GC [ see pp. 37897-98 ] . |
| 46 | I remember some years ago being called by a man who told me he had just now heard things for the first time in the Beethoven Fifth . |
| 47 | Many people seemed to become aware of such things for the first time in their lives . |
| 48 | It 's difficult to think about things for the first time in the heat of the moment , so plan it out now . |
| 49 | Most spectacular was the televising of the Illuminations for the first time in 1951 , using toastrack 166 . |
| 50 | The three major US car makers saw their stock prices decline after analysts predicted quarterly losses on their North American businesses for the first time since the 1982 recession . |
| 51 | Erich Honecker , the party leader , spoke about the country 's problems for the first time in an address to party leaders , but simply echoed the Politburo statement . |
| 52 | In August 1899 , Joseph revisited his Valley of Winding Waters for the first time in twenty-two years . |
| 53 | The match has added significance in that Stephen Martin plays against his Irish team-mates for the first time in his illustrious career . |
| 54 | Foreign imports into Britain continued to grow rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s while UK exports of manufactures levelled off from the late 1970s , making the UK a net importer of manufactured goods for the first time in the long history we have described ( Figure 2.1 ) . |
| 55 | Their most pressing concern was the seven-year-old Iran-Iraq war , and the Palestine question was pushed to the bottom of the list of priorities for the first time in the history of the Arab League . |
| 56 | I am doing this without glasses , and what is so marvellous is that I can play the piano without glasses for the first time for at least 12 years . |
| 57 | BLUNDERING birdwatchers may be to blame for the failure of England 's only breeding pair of Golden Eagles to produce chicks for the first time in four years . |
| 58 | I refer not only to the fact that the match started with two wides , courtesy of Chris Lewis ; not only to the strange sight of an opening bowler in odd socks ( Neil Mallender black left sock , white right sock ) ; not only to the fact that England had no player with three initials for the first time since the third Test against New Zealand in 1990 , the selectors having left out Salisbury and having sent get-well-soon messages to DeFreitas , Tufnell and Fraser ; not only to the fact that Mallender joined the huge list of Test opening bowlers with a double ‘ I ’ in their name ( a list that in recent years has included Dilley , Allott , Small , Williams and Ellison : expect Millns to add his name to the pile soon . |
| 59 | There was also a major upset in Ballymena , where the DUP lost control of the council to the Ulster Unionists for the first time in 15 years . |
| 60 | What they had n't realized was that this was a new Linford , stronger , fitter , faster than ever before and running in really ideal conditions for the first time in his life . |