Example sentences of "for the [num ord] time in [adv] " in BNC.

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1 For the second time in just six months , an IRA car bomb causes widespread destruction .
2 Come in , my dear , and tell me all about it , ’ he urged , and for the second time in just over twenty-four hours Paige burst into tears .
3 For the second time in as many weeks , Alton firemen were called out to a night-time factory blaze to deal with a fire at Vessa Ltd in Paper Mill Lane .
4 Father O'Malley wrote out his former pupil 's instructions and for the second time in as many days Charlie signed his name to an official document .
5 The bamboo rungs , though wide and strong , were loosely lashed with unreliable cordage , and Lorne 's and my first simultaneous step onto the lowest rung resulted in it slipping its knots and depositing us both heavily in the mud — myself for the second time in less than twenty minutes .
6 And I was eating steak for the second time in less than fifteen hours .
7 For the first time in nearly 40 years Bentley has a shape to call its own .
8 She was picturing her daughter , her beloved Angel , and as the pony stepped daintily over the cobbles she was counting the minutes until she was with her for the first time in nearly six months .
9 And for the first time in nearly three years she had been able to talk about Martin .
10 For the first time in nearly three years someone spoke my name .
11 One January 20 , he promises the front door of the White House will swing open for the first time in nearly 30 years , as Bill , wife Hilary and 12-year-old daughter Chelsea pop down to McDonald 's and do a little shopping .
12 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 .
13 For the first time in nearly four years , gross domestic product ( GDP ) fell in the last quarter of 1990 .
14 One of Edinburgh 's most unusual houses has opened to the public , for the first time in nearly twenty years .
15 Two brick arches put up to channel the waters of an underground river have been uncovered for the first time in nearly two hundred years .
16 Midfielder Les Briley , 35 , is recalled to the squad for the first time in nearly four months .
17 St Servatius church in Maastricht was restored for the first time in AD 725 .
18 As right-wing supporters , many appearing in public for the first time in almost three years , welcomed their liberators with monarchist flags and fascist salutes , many other Spaniards faced a terrifying future : so terrifying , indeed , that to some suicide was preferable .
19 JOHN CALE , avant-garde elder statesman and Velvet Underground founder member , whose live panto , guitar and vocals album ‘ Fragments Of A Rain Season ’ is out now on Hannibal Records , plays in his native Wales for the first time in almost a decade as part of his autumn tour , visiting .
20 New Zealand 's quarrel with France over the Rainbow Warrior incident was formally ended when a French naval ship docked at Auckland for the first time in almost six years .
21 Karr smiled , relaxing for the first time in almost twelve hours of searching .
22 British Steel , which yesterday broke through the 100p barrier for the first time in almost two years , lost 3p today to 100p as investors became jittery that its recovery potential might not be as great as originally anticipated .
23 Among the more significant changes , prompted in part by criticism of the government 's handling of events leading up to the Iraqi invasion of August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] , was the replacement of the Foreign Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Shaikh Sabah al Ahmad al Jabir as Sabah , who failed to obtain a Cabinet post for the first time in almost three decades .
24 HOPES of a rapid economic recovery were dealt another blow yesterday when unemployment rose to 2.7m for the first time in almost five years .
25 UNEMPLOYMENT in Britain has fallen for the first time in almost three years .
26 For the first time in more than 40 years of power in Italy — more than twice the reign of Mussolini 's fascism — they no longer have the threat of the largest Communist Party in Western Europe to keep them in power .
27 FOR the first time in more than 20 years the Drummond Locomotive Society 's Class M7 locomotive No. 30053 hauled a passenger train at the East Anglian Railway Museum where it has been undergoing major restoration work .
28 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 .
29 Continuing a process of democratization which began with the election of all 950 members for the Tirupati plenum by the party 's rank and file , elections were held for the first time in more than 20 years for party posts including the 10 elective posts in the party 's most senior decision-making body , the Congress working committee ( CWC ) .
30 The trees are being re-coppiced this week for the first time in more than 50 years to keep them healthy .
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