Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each of the last four games there 's been speculation that Lou Macari was taking charge of Stoke for the last time . |
| 2 | And yesterday it emerged that Britain 's inflation rate of 4.1pc had fallen below that of Germany for the first time in 25 years . |
| 3 | Butter is in the supermarkets of Timisoara for the first time since March last year . |
| 4 | Benazir Bhutto has been sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan for the second time after a decisive victory in the country 's parliament over her greatest rival , the Muslim League leader , Nawa Shariff . |
| 5 | LAST autumn , the Bank was back on television in most of Scotland for the first time in more than two years with a campaign of three commercials . |
| 6 | Here he 'd smelt the air of England for the first time , the crisp October air ; here he 'd fed first , drunk first ; first had cause for laughter , and later , for tears . |
| 7 | CHINA : Amnesty International was publicly recognised by a senior government official in the People 's Republic of China for the first time last year , in connection with the commutation of the death sentence of Lobsang Tenzin , a Tibetan student accused of the murder of a Chinese policeman . |
| 8 | Hassan Gouled Aptidon was re-elected President of Djibouti for the fourth time . |
| 9 | Coun Richard Wastell , of Scarborough , was named as the mayor of Whitby for the third time . |
| 10 | The government confirmed on May 13 that it had landed a contingent of troops on the southern tip of Bougainville for the first time since 1990 , when it had withdrawn its forces from the island in the face of a protracted secessionist guerrilla war conducted by the Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) . |
| 11 | On the day Khomeini flew in to Mehrabad Airport , she and Nader Nadirpur flew out of Teheran for the last time . |
| 12 | Elland Road stages the event between August 1–2 as the tournament moves out of London for the first time . |
| 13 | The Chanak crisis , which erupted in late September , drove Baldwin to the newsstands of Aix for the first time . |