Example sentences of "have [verb] for the [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | CHURCH collections have fallen for the first time for more than a decade , it emerged today . |
2 | Dozens of children who survived a rare blood disorder have met for the first time at a special party . |
3 | We have shown for the first time an inhibition of in vitro CCPR in normal and premalignant human rectal epithelium by vitamin D and its metabolites . |
4 | no , no , my Lord I have raised for the first time the board minute |
5 | ARSONISTS have struck for the second time in five days at a Middlesbrough park . |
6 | MEAN-HEARTED thieves have struck for the third time at the Wrexham depot of the Operation Christmas Child charity , stealing a fax machine used to send out vital documents for aid convoys . |
7 | In the past year , serious peace talks have begun for the first time to end Guatemala 's 30-year old civil war between the army and a number of guerrilla organisations grouped together in the URNG coalition . |