Example sentences of "[det] for [art] [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point is , that for the first time in decades , the environmentalists have a powerful voice — and a Government which claims to listen . |
| 2 | I do n't know whether it affects anyone else but what happened to me was that for the first time in my adult life I began to feel part of a community . |
| 3 | They believe it will mean that for the first time in El Salvador 's history , there will be genuine political freedom . |
| 4 | Only out on the water with Pedro panting in the prow had she dared to admit that for the first time in her life she had felt herself a prisoner at the Hall . |
| 5 | Does he also admit that for the first time in the history of the national health service , waiting lists for day patients and in-patients combined have risen above 900,000 people ? |
| 6 | It is true , of course , that for the first time in 75 years , Russia now has in place the mechanisms of national democracy — a government whose president has been elected and a parliament able to enforce , by argument and voting , restraints on what the government does , as well as a constitutional court . |
| 7 | And I think a significant point is that for the first time in ninety three we were likely to take something in , in relation to B Sky B. |
| 8 | The conversion into owner-farmers of those who had hitherto been tenants or agricultural labourers provided many for the first time with genuine prospects of making a decent living , unburdened by debts , high rents or heavy taxes . |
| 9 | I wondered what on earth John would think if he saw all this ; his friends in church , many for the first time in years , strangers saying prayers for him , me weeping over his photograph . |
| 10 | Tallis was on her own for the first time in her eight years or so in this unimaginable land . |
| 11 | For , as Raymond Briggs once said , in Maus the cartoon book holds its own for the first time against all-comers as a literary medium . |