Example sentences of "for the [adj] time in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did this after he had cut the grooves for the second time in the stretchers . |
| 2 | The headmistress let out a yell that must have rattled every window-pane in the building and for the second time in the last five minutes she shot out of her chair like a rocket . |
| 3 | New Zealand , for the second time in the series , were without Willie Watson , with a recurrence of a thigh strain , and gave a debut to the burly Rod Latham . |
| 4 | Then , for the second time in the short span that she had known the man , her mouth fell open . |
| 5 | Simon Brain broke his leg for the second time in the welsh cup on wednesday and is out for the rest of the season … local youngster Paul Eversham will be given a chance to prove himself … |
| 6 | Eric Cantona 's 85th minute goal was far too little and unfortunately far too late to save Howard Wilkinson 's men suffering the agony of going out for the second time in the space of five weeks . |
| 7 | A stock judging team from the north-west area won the British Holstein Society 's Royal Show contest for the seventh time in the nine years during which these competitions have been run . |
| 8 | Thus it transpired , for the only time in the BBC 's history , that the Design Department was asked to undertake the responsibility and the budgets for all visual effects , special props , models , etc. , needed for the television series . |
| 9 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 10 | Then he attacked with venom and had Thornton looking troubled for the only time in the fight . |
| 11 | When Chris Lewis replaced Malcolm , ball dominated bat for the first time in the match , with nothing to show for it . |
| 12 | For the first time in the history of the service , army units have been sent in to maintain order in prisons , writes Sarah Lambert . |
| 13 | For the first time in the saga of occupation and exodus , the organisational skills of the Red Cross began to succumb yesterday to the sheer magnitude of the task facing it . |
| 14 | ALEXANDER MOGILNY , the Soviet forward who defected during the world championships in Stockholm , is among the Soviet contingent appearing in the NHL , which begins its 1989-90 season today , for the first time in the League 's 73-year history . |
| 15 | WELSH RUGBY was united for the first time in the last few stormy months when the 203 member clubs of the Welsh Rugby Union decided to sever playing links with South Africa last night . |
| 16 | The net costs of Eagle Lodges appear for the first time in the income and expenditure account and are largely attributable to setting up costs as there was little income from occupancy during 1990 . |
| 17 | In Zambia , the provision of hybrid maize seed , fertiliser and marketing services to small-scale farmers dated from the mid 1960s ; in Kenya the provision of such services was extended for the first time in the 1960s well beyond the Kikuyu . |
| 18 | Steve Jones will run for the first time in the Morpeth-Newcastle , Britain 's oldest road race , on New Year 's Day .. |
| 19 | Steve Jones will run for the first time in the Morpeth-Newcastle , Britain 's oldest road race , on New Year 's Day .. |
| 20 | Jenny Pitman 's Do Be Brief stepped onto a racecourse for the first time in the first division of the Christmas Pudding Novice Hurdle and made quite an impression in beating Sailor 's Luck , but not half as big as his stable-companion Egypt Mill , who looked something special in landing the second division by 10 lengths . |
| 21 | For the first time in the lives of many Romanians , they can ‘ shop around ’ . |
| 22 | That morning I met my father on the middle landing of the stairs , and we were alone together for the first time in the holidays . |
| 23 | For the first time in the contest since the initial attack , Jacob 's adversary seizes the initiative . |
| 24 | It showed a replay of Tammuz meeting Ari for the first time in the canteen . |
| 25 | I remember some years ago being called by a man who told me he had just now heard things for the first time in the Beethoven Fifth . |
| 26 | PRIME Ministerial blood was drawn for the first time in the election campaign yesterday when Mr Major was hit by an egg thrown from close range . |
| 27 | Fighting was reported for the first time in the east Bosnian towns of Visegrad and Foca , near the Serbian border . |
| 28 | This is primarily due to process integration — eg filtration and drying have been combined for the first time in the Pergascript operation . |
| 29 | They include the products of the spread of the reptiles back into the aqueous environment from which their distant ancestors emerged , and , for the first time in the history of the vertebrates , the conquest of the air . |
| 30 | Betty Rizzo observes that Philip Leapor voted for the first time in the 1749 election for Knight of the Shire , and judges from this that he had used the capital from the subscription to buy his freehold [ Rizzo ] . |