Example sentences of "time [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the first time for 11 years they 've reached the final stages . |
| 2 | Some time during those years I remember thinking it offensive that all the people ‘ up front ’ in black were male . |
| 3 | DEC said that for the first time in six quarters it generated positive cash flow from operations and investments , even with restructuring activities . |
| 4 | For the second time in two days she had been bought and sold . |
| 5 | Gorbachev disclosed that " for the first time in recent years we laid quite a strong stress on what our economic relations should be like " , although he failed to provide details on the precise content of the talks . |
| 6 | It was the fourth time in five years she had been injured in the line of duty . |
| 7 | I 've done it five , this is the first time in five years I 've had New Year 's Eve off . |
| 8 | For the first time in many months she contemplated the uncontemplatable , and thought that it might not be so with him , even though her heart began to thud uncomfortably at the very idea . |
| 9 | This is the first time in 20 years I have felt any hope . ’ |
| 10 | For the second time in three months he heard the battering sound of hobnailed boots climbing the wooden stairs to fetch a body . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's the second time in twenty-four hours I 've had a swim in that damned water . |
| 12 | But one day , as he sat by a mountain stream , he actually looked at a flower , and for the first time in ten years he realized how beautiful something living could be . |
| 13 | During her time at social services she had overseen much of the work , and had been involved in some of the preliminary work setting up housing associations to help provide much needed accommodation for the elderly . |