Example sentences of "of [noun pl] for the [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of birds for the first time ever heard , |
| 2 | and at the end of the national hunt racing season … celebrations for Gloucestershire 's top stables … trainer David Nicholson reached a century of winners for the first time and champion jockey Richard Dunwoody finished with 173 … a record year for them both |
| 3 | She also looked great — out of dungarees for the first time and into a becomingly simple black dress . |
| 4 | There was a certain rapprochement though , as Mary came down with her things in the back-pack Rufus had lent her and wearing jeans and a pair of sandals for the first time for days . |
| 5 | The seminars , which will be held in Dundee and Glasgow , will focus on the second phase of general SVQs , though they may also include workshops for centres wanting to pilot the first batch of awards for the first time . |
| 6 | Their most pressing concern was the seven-year-old Iran-Iraq war , and the Palestine question was pushed to the bottom of the list of priorities for the first time in the history of the Arab League . |
| 7 | She sobs loudly in his arms , relieved of the company of strangers for the first time . |
| 8 | Under the Government 's fund-holding initiative , doctors have control over their own spending on behalf of patients for the first time . |
| 9 | The colonisation of new land , and its demarcation into private estates , created thousands of miles of boundaries for the first time . |
| 10 | He was able to provide information on age , sex , and growth of whales for the first time without killing , touching , marking , or molesting a single animal . |
| 11 | The Reform Act of 1832 laid the foundations of electoral democracy by tidying up the system — for instance , getting rid of ‘ rotten boroughs ’ , small or almost non-existent places that could return MPs — and setting up a register of voters for the first time . |
| 12 | Bob Hope , the master of ceremonies for the umpteenth time , unfunnily and inaccurately joked about Dustin 's youthfulness , saying , ‘ They nominated a kid like Dustin Hoffman — he made a picture he ca n't get in to see . |
| 13 | From him , I heard of leys for the first time , and learned that he had found alignments of tree clumps in the countryside around his home . |
| 14 | Ms Hargreaves admitted that one potentially lucrative source of sponsorship had dried up two days previously , when two-year-old Kate stepped out of nappies for the last time . |
| 15 | As Nell followed , the rows of screens for the first time were blank , showing no signs of life . |
| 16 | He felt like an infant staggering uncertainly out of doors for the first time into the infinitude of the universe . |
| 17 | By Tuesday , he was able to venture out of doors for the first time since arriving home , late and ailing , on Thursday night . |