Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] for [art] [num ord] time " in BNC.

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1 Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " .
2 When the hounds checked for the fourth time and could no. find again no matter how the huntsman held them round , Nora and Sir George withdrew .
3 With the widespread translation of Early Irish stories into English around the turn of the century a younger generation of Irishmen and women discovered for the first time a fresh and potent source of images to define their sense of nationality .
4 On the seventh of September the clouds broke for the first time , the wind subsided , and the sun came out .
5 So far as more academic scholarship was concerned , the Nag Hammadi Scrolls appeared for the first time in English translation in 1977 , and within two years had inspired Elaine Pagels ' best-seller The Gnostic Gospels .
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