Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] only the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , when he stunned Jim courier and double Wimbledon champion Stefan Edberg that week it was only the seventh time in over four years that feat had been achieved . |
| 2 | It was only the second time she had taken part and this race , taking less than ten minutes , had been a particularly fast one , but as she said , it was a family tradition to take part in it and she had really enjoyed it . |
| 3 | It was only the second time this season we 've been comprehensively beaten . |
| 4 | It was only the second time since they had been married that she had rebuffed him . |
| 5 | It was only the second time they had worked together . |
| 6 | It was only the second time Meg had seen Arthur really angry . |
| 7 | This was their sixth successive League victory , and though it was only the first time they have scored three goals in a game this season , everyone at Highbury knows it could have been seven . |
| 8 | ‘ It was only the one time ? ’ |
| 9 | It was only the third time Huntworth has got round in his last 13 races under Rules , but those three completions have brought three wins . |
| 10 | Ian Readman , honorary secretary of the Redcar Station , said he believed it was only the third time a crew at the station had received a medal in the 190 years since the Zetland was first launched from Redcar . |
| 11 | It was only the fourth time that one horse had completed a clear round . |
| 12 | It did not matter that it was only the fourth time they had met ; she knew this moment was exceptional in her life and that , while their physical passion might be impulsive and unplanned , it was inescapable . |