Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] 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 | The Fitzallan 's played leading parts in Scottish life over several generations : the third Steward , Alan 's son , was appointed Justiciary for Scotland by King Alexander II ; the fourth fought at the Battle of Largs and was a Crusader ; and the fifth was appointed a Guardian of Scotland during the troubled times before the rise of William Wallace . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Rent arrears from the beginning of December to the present time at £800 a month would be paid , said Mr Finnegan . |
| 9 | The association with Fahreddin Acemi of the only information in the Turkish sources about the activities of the early Muftis may well not be entirely coincidental , for in one very important respect he seems to have differed from his two predecessors in the traditional list , Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan , in that he appears not to have held a kadilik simultaneously with the Muftilik , whereas Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan apparently both held the kadilik of Bursa at the same time as the Muftilik . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the middle of this he was trying really to listen to the distress of the family and demonstrate something of the compassion of God at the same time . |
| 12 | Hassan Gouled Aptidon was re-elected President of Djibouti for the fourth time . |
| 13 | However , the Central Council recognized in April that a franchise change could not now be avoided , but resolved to support it only if the government would agree to restore the House of Lords at the same time . |
| 14 | Coun Richard Wastell , of Scarborough , was named as the mayor of Whitby for the third time . |
| 15 | Not all cases known to the indicator agencies were examined , but only those who were resident in the Borough of Wirral during the specified time period . |
| 16 | The fear is that people will start to flood out of Iraq at the same time , in which case we could be talking about up to 2 million people leaving Iraq through Jordan . |
| 17 | erm the fear is that people will start to flood out of Iraq at the same time , in which case we could be talking about up to 2,000,000 people leaving Iraq through Jordan . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | On the day Khomeini flew in to Mehrabad Airport , she and Nader Nadirpur flew out of Teheran for the last time . |
| 20 | Elland Road stages the event between August 1–2 as the tournament moves out of London for the first time . |
| 21 | The Chanak crisis , which erupted in late September , drove Baldwin to the newsstands of Aix for the first time . |
| 22 | Two of them ( the men , I mean ) became quite fond of John during the short time he was with them , and expressed much regret at his leaving , begging him to come again and to bring his gin , meaning his wife , with him . ’ |