Example sentences of "[noun pl] for the [num ord] time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , on 20 June , the Germans for the first time employed a new type of diphosgene gas shell . |
| 2 | However , on the strength of findings by a joint historical commission formed in 1987 to resolve " blank spots " in Polish-Soviet relations , in March 1989 the Polish authorities for the first time had contradicted the official Soviet line and had openly accused the Soviet Union of responsibility [ see p. 36535 ] . |
| 3 | The authorities for the first time gave permission for an opposition demonstration on March 7 . |
| 4 | For many , the thought of leaving their parents for the first time left them subdued . |
| 5 | Trusts for the first time made it easy to create a right in a person who would have been a third party at civil law . |
| 6 | Senior British Government officials for the first time said yesterday that while a trip by two Tory strategists to the US during the campaign had been cleared by the Conservative Party chairman , Sir Norman Fowler , he had not told Mr Major . |
| 7 | Great significance has been attached to the " break with the past " at the end of the eighteenth century , when critical economic changes for the first time allowed sustained population growth . |