Example sentences of "time in [adj] history " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Congress finished its work with the adoption in principle , by 1,723 votes to four with 13 abstentions , of a statement on human rights and freedoms which , according to Le Monde of Sept. 7 , would place the individual above the collective for the first time in Soviet history , if implemented in legislation by the new Supreme Soviet . |
| 2 | Thus , for the first time in recent history , Great Britain fielded a mass army in Europe , in contrast to her earlier , limited excursions , supported by her navy . |
| 3 | The bond can be exchanged after 45 days and until November 30 1993 , into 1.175 IBM Corp shares — the first time in recent history that IBM has made an acquisition for shares . |
| 4 | UNLIKE ANY other time in recent history , the whiff of revolution is in the air . |
| 5 | Table 2.2 demonstrates changes over the seventeen years to 1987 : western Europe took over half our exports for the first time in recent history ; by 1987 , the EC alone took virtually half , and most other destinations , except for North America , had declined in relative importance . |
| 6 | It produces the country 's best international show-jumpers , with invited riders from France , Germany , Switzerland , Spain , Ireland , U.S.A. , Holland , Austria , Sweden , Finland , Belgium and , for the first time in recent history , South Africa . |
| 7 | There has never been a time in economic history when comparative advantage was less static . |
| 8 | For the first time in European history the Jews were not only persecuted , they were massacred . |
| 9 | There has been no time in British history when this has ever occurred , although from time to time insurrectionary events , such as the Jacobite risings and Chartism , have appeared to threaten the Establishment . |
| 10 | FOUR Hereford players were sent off yesterday in their 1-1 draw at Northampton — the first time in British history four players from one side have been given the red card . |
| 11 | Despite the considerable evidence of continuing severe poverty , national adult death rates continued the trend of decline discernible from the 1870s , and infant mortality began to fall decisively , for the first time in British history , from an average of 152.2 per thousand live births in England and Wales in 1898–1902 , to 131 in 1903–07 and 111.8 in 1908–12 . |
| 12 | Moreover , so successful were the numerous methods for delaying marriage ( the mean age of which , by the early twentieth century was higher than at any other time in British history , 27 for men and 25 for women ) , that for the typical Edwardian the gap between leaving school and the full independence of marriage was twice as long as it is today . |
| 13 | This tended to increase the influence of parliament ; and in 1858 , for the first time in British history , a government was driven from office on a foreign policy question . |
| 14 | For the first time in British history , and after a long struggle , Conscription had become law ; but in Dublin the ‘ Easter Rising ’ had set the spark to Ireland , and in Mesopotamia General Townshend had surrendered to the Turks at Kut . |
| 15 | This is only the second time in post-war history that war booty art treasures have been put on view . |
| 16 | They are forces which are spreading wealth faster than at any time in human history and in one 's political approach I think you either are an enthusiast anxious to embrace the forces that are at work or you are a sceptic , perhaps inclined to resist them , hoping that you can frustrate them . |
| 17 | The capability of removing women 's eggs and placing them in another woman 's womb , has given rise to the question for the first time in human history who is the biological mother ? |
| 18 | As Turner ( ibid. 99–100 ) records , this is a time in social history , when |
| 19 | It was the first time in American history that serving officers did not dare say what their commander-in-chief had told them to do . |
| 20 | But now , for the first time in English history , a set of circumstances existed which tested , whether this doctrine is always workable . |
| 21 | In that imperial annus mirabilis of 1897 Nonconformist representatives were invited for the first time in English history to take part in a royal celebration when thirty representatives were allowed places at St Paul 's to witness the short act of worship in the midst of the Queen 's Jubilee procession through London . |
| 22 | Within the country , he argued , war transferred wealth from one group to another , and although war taxation produced a class of native financiers , as for example William de le Pole , for the first time in English history , it did not change the structure of the national economy . |