Example sentences of "world [noun sg] for the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he sees it , the Gulf crisis of August 1990 united the United Nations on a major world issue for the first time in its history . |
| 2 | STEVE DAVIS won the world title for the first time in 1981 and the following year we went back to Sheffield to show the world what a class act we were . |
| 3 | MASSIMO BIASION , of Italy , driving a works Lancia , yesterday squeezed past his team-mate , Alessandro Fiorio , to win the San Remo Rally and lift the world title for the second year running . |
| 4 | Davis , who won the world title for the sixth time in May , decided not to compete in the first two ranking events in Hong Hong and Bangkok . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're satisfied I 'm not going to sabotage your chances of becoming world champion for the second time ? ’ |
| 6 | And we got plenty more attention , too , when Davis went out into the Crucible Theatre arena as world champion for the first time and promptly got slaughtered 10-1 by a complete unknown by the name of Tony Knowles . |
| 7 | Mansell managed to negotiate himself out of the best car in Formula One , despite winning the world championship for the first time . |
| 8 | A late developer on the world championship trail , Cardus made his debut in 1983 , won his first GP in 1989 and led a world championship for the first time last season . |
| 9 | In 1981 , however , sports car drivers had a World Championship for the first time , when the championship was again renamed the World Endurance Championship and from 1982 the championship was for the new Group C cars . |
| 10 | On Feb. 6 the World Bank for the first time made major loans to Poland for structural adjustment purposes , totalling $360,000,000 , while indicating that loans in the pipeline could total five times that amount in 1990 . |
| 11 | World Cup for the first time since 1972 . |
| 12 | Twenty-five years to the day since England beat West Germany 4–2 in extra time at Wembley to win the World Cup for the first time and , so far , only time in a glorious ( etc , etc — the back pages that morning were awash , as they had been for days , with nostalgia and breast-beating and rush-of-blood reminiscence ) footballing history ; the apotheosis of the game , which , according to one writer at the time , ‘ lives like an extra pulse in the people of industrial England . ’ |
| 13 | In March they were received as World Champions by an ecstatic crowd after winning the Cricket World Cup for the first time . |
| 14 | England 's dreams of winning the cricket World Cup for the first time ended in disappointment today with defeat at the hands of Pakistan . |
| 15 | Victory by 92 runs meant that Clive Lloyd was holding aloft the Prudential World Cup for the second time . |
| 16 | He took the first five straight off , and went on to capture the world crown for the first time . |
| 17 | Carry on collecting all this week and you 'll have a fabulous souvenir of the season in which Mansell has roared to a record NINE victories and taken the world crown for the first time . |
| 18 | Carry on collecting all this week and you will have a great souvenir of the season in which Mansell won an amazing NINE Grand Prix as he took the world crown for the first time . |
| 19 | Carry on collecting all this week and you will have a great souvenir of the season in which Mansell won an amazing NINE Grands Prix , including the first five straight off , and went on to take the world crown for the first time . |
| 20 | They will complete your wallchart of the season in which Mansell won an amazing NINE Grands Prix , including the first five straight off , and went on to take the world crown for the first time . |