Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] for the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As investors and the better-paid alike give thanks for their deliverance , that most essential and intangible ingredient for economic recovery — confidence — is suddenly present for the first time in three years . |
| 2 | Alpine days stay reasonably warm for the first half of the month . |
| 3 | It 's also important for the first time buyer . |
| 4 | He was collecting for over forty years and , as Miller was a regular recipient of Bartram 's shipments , it can be assumed that ‘ a large proportion of plants credited to Miller as introducer consisted of collections by Bartram and if this is true he was probably responsible for the first appearance in the gardens of England of between one hundred and fifty and two hundred plants ’ ( John Hendley Barnhart , ‘ Significance of John Bartram 's Work to Botanical and Horticultural Knowledge ’ , Bartonia Special Issue , 1931 ) . |
| 5 | It is curious that it should have happened , that Michel came upon the scene the very instant she was really free for the first time in her life . |
| 6 | To his pleasant surprise he discovered that he was now able to think with an objective clarity which stemmed from the knowledge that he was now free for the first time in his life to speak his mind without fear or favour . |
| 7 | For Swindon it was shooting practice young Marcus Phillips on as sub for the first time nearly got a goal but it was Torquay who tookover towards the end … |
| 8 | In addition its PC-NFS Advanced Telnet software for terminal emulation is now available for the first time in 10- , 25- , 100- and 500-user packs with prices ranging from $1,600 to $49,500 . |
| 9 | Such essential measures as library expenditure per student , per capita computing costs , and many other management data , are now available for the first time in published form , so that universities can see at a glance how they measure up to similar institutions . |
| 10 | RIVER CROSSENS : Good fishery but often slow for the first week or so until fish located . |
| 11 | A new room for the study of the 7,000-or-so drawings and 27,000 prints which make up the Courtauld collection will make these works widely available for the first time . |
| 12 | She felt triumphantly free for the first time in her life . |
| 13 | A sense of self-preservation cautioned her not to stick around , and before he could react she sprinted up to the house , feeling strangely exhilarated for the first time since she had left England . |
| 14 | Prost had come cheap — virtually free for the first year — and Niki had re-signed for a very large sum indeed . |
| 15 | On Oct. 15 the Mar Mikha'il-Galerie Sim'an and the Dar al-Wahsh-Alayh crossing points were re-opened , making the Beirut-Damascus highway fully passable for the first time since 1985 . |
| 16 | What the Saxon invasion did primarily was to reorganise most of Sussex as a distinct political unit , firmly independent for the first time since the Regni . |
| 17 | And I was very upset for the first day , then I started settling down . |
| 18 | But although Gloucester was thus becoming politically visible for the first time , he was as yet of only limited importance . |
| 19 | But although Gloucester was thus becoming politically visible for the first time , he was as yet of only limited importance . |
| 20 | He was too old to be called up ( a lost generation of men who were too young for the first war , too old for the second ) . |
| 21 | Babies are n't very nice for the first couple of years of their lives either , though it is modern to say the opposite . |