Example sentences of "in [noun] [prep] [art] first time " in BNC.

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1 The result is a bucking of current trends with the growth in spending outstripping rises in income for the first time in three years .
2 They are joined in Brighton for the first time by LONDON NEW MUSIC .
3 Where a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party is representing this party in parliament for the first time the above ( normal ) procedure shall be set in motion not earlier than eighteen months after his or her election as Member of Parliament .
4 Fears of recession which heightened the perception of silver as an industrial metal and heavy over-supply over an extended period , caused prices to plummet to below $4.00 a troy ounce in mid-December for the first time in fifteen years .
5 He is under 13 stone in weight for the first time since his teens .
6 When , for example , establishment actor Raymond Massey saw James Dean in action for the first time on the set of East of Eden , emitting as he did a stream of sexual and genital adjectives , Massey stormed off the set declaring , ‘ I have never experienced anything like this in my entire life .
7 Krabbe 's comeback GERMANY 'S double world sprint champion Katrin Krabbe will be back in action for the first time since the lifting of her doping ban , at a meeting on her home Neubrandenburg track on June 13 .
8 Several Cabinet ministers will address the two-day gathering which is being held at the Royal International Pavilion in Llangollen for the first time .
9 ‘ We have lost two League games in succession for the first time since August .
10 Rangers ' goalkeeper , who has a valid claim to the title of Britain 's best by his displays in Europe this season , has missed two matches in succession for the first time since joining the club from Hibs and will not train today .
11 Next day — possibly anticipating that the fighter defences had been crippled by the attrition of the 22nd. , the Axis appeared in force for the first time in some days as a further convoy reached the island .
12 Deputies from the SPA , in opposition for the first time , abstained from the vote .
13 He sold Grove Chance , then in foal for the first time , to his neighbour Percy Thomas , but when she died shortly after giving birth to Norton 's Coin he bought back the foal .
14 The article also states that the burden of proof that a standard term has been individually negotiated falls on the seller or supplier , but given the provisions set out in the previous paragraph , it is hard to see how this burden can ever be discharged , unless there has been an individual negotiation at which both parties actually discussed and wrote out the clause in question for the first time .
15 The old flag was raised over the Supreme Soviet building in Riga for the first time on Feb. 27 .
16 Dale Gordon set foot in Scotland for the first time in his life yesterday to complete a £1.2 million move from Norwich to Rangers — took one look at the imposing new-look Ibrox which will become his home and admitted : ‘ I 'm gobsmacked ! ’
17 Soon red kites , breeding again in Scotland for the first time in 100 years , may be added to their list .
18 A chapel-reared Cornish boy , he was far from home , working in Salisbury , drinking in pubs for the first time in his life , sleeping rough in a wood .
19 Many pistoliers will be fighting in battle for the first time .
20 I was looking forward to being a guest in Ireland for the first time , instead of merely a paying guest .
21 Charlie Haughey : the man who groomed a woman to lead one of the major political parties in Ireland for the first time .
22 ( It is also relevant to Athenian fears that , as Livy tells us under the year 431 , Carthage now encroached in Sicily for the first time , iv.29.8 with R. M. Ogilvie ( 1965 ) Commentary on Livy i-v , Oxford . )
23 Thus a limited constitution with a representative body , the Duma appeared in Russia for the first time .
24 Today , South Africa play rugby in England for the first time in nearly 23 years when a line-up containing five current internationals faces the Midlands at Leicester 's Welford Road .
25 Grain output rose by 6% , and wheat was in surplus for the first time in four years .
26 With the scheduling of the 1992 Asian Classic — in Thailand for the first time this year — for January 30 , and the new World Championship for mid-December each year , the professional golf season now effectively covers 12 months , involving more travel than ever before .
27 A joint venture between English Nature and London Zoo 's Invertebrate Conservation team has resulted in Britain 's most endangered bush cricket , the wart-biter ( Decticus verrucivorus ) being successfully reared in captivity for the first time .
28 There are bound to be some tears around the 4th and 10th but , with Jupiter in Libra for the first time in a decade , you can not allow yourself to be constrained any more .
29 A visitor arriving in Zurich for the first time will almost certainly do so with a preconceived idea of a feverishly busy city where austere-faced financiers wearing dark suits hurry past in search of the next billion dollars , where bankers huddle together in back rooms like a secret society , a place resembling a web from the centre of which threads reach out to manipulate the money markets of the world , and everything is subordinate to profit .
30 To help visitors who are in Zurich for the first time , the tourist office has worked out four planned itineraries .
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