Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [conj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year BMW will make about 580,000 cars and for the first time outstrip Mercedes . |
| 2 | ‘ I have been in the game as player , coach and manager for 30 years and for the first time in the last three months I can feel the adrenalin starting to flow again , ’ said Totten . |
| 3 | This commenced with the Year eight pupils and for the first time in 1991 , we will be presenting all our school leavers with a RAE which again we feel will be of a high quality . |
| 4 | Then the judge suspended the sentence , placing him on probation for two years but with the first sixty days to be spent in Los Angeles County Jail . |
| 5 | The DTI — the Department of Trade and Industry — started to check up on one or two deals and at the first whiff of them he was away on his toes . |
| 6 | At the end of all this I had lost about two stones and for the first time in my life , felt very nervy . |