Example sentences of "for the [num ord] [noun] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has n't , but on this occasion and for the second time with just over twenty minutes played , the Pisa goalkeeper was picking the ball out of the back of the net . |
| 2 | For the second time in just six months , an IRA car bomb causes widespread destruction . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And I was eating steak for the second time in less than fifteen hours . |
| 8 | Yet for the first half at least , one is carried along by McBride 's sheer charm and inventiveness , qualities shared by fellow Live regular Dave Whitaker and Su Elliott , who perform more than 20 characters between them . |
| 9 | In a further sign of improving links with black Africa , it was announced that during the weekend of de Klerk 's visit to Kenya , South African Airways flights were routed over west Africa for the first time for nearly 30 years , the government having secured overflight rights with Morocco , Mauritania , Mali and Côte d'Ivoire . |
| 10 | For the first time for more than two thousand years Abyssinia had been invaded , though not conquered , by an alien race . |
| 11 | Hekmatyar 's most powerful rival in the mujaheddin , the northern-based Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ahmad Shah Massud ( known as the " Lion of Panjsher " for his victories over Soviet troops in the Panjsher Valley — see p. 36396 ) , visited Islamabad , the Pakistan capital , on Oct. 13 for the first time for more than 10 years , to meet other mujaheddin leaders and senior Pakistani civilian and military officials , including the Pakistani President , Ghulam Ishaq Khan , the Army Chief of Staff , Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg , and the ISI chief , Maj.-Gen. |
| 12 | The armies saw each other for the first time at just after eleven o'clock . |
| 13 | For the first time since then I 'm convinced we wo n't win , and start mentally realigning myself to the joys of a hung parliament . |
| 14 | This year Farnborough also has a skate scene emerging from Farnborough itself for the first time since about 1981 . |
| 15 | For the first time in nearly 40 years Bentley has a shape to call its own . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And for the first time in nearly three years she had been able to talk about Martin . |
| 18 | For the first time in nearly three years someone spoke my name . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For the first time in nearly four years , gross domestic product ( GDP ) fell in the last quarter of 1990 . |
| 22 | One of Edinburgh 's most unusual houses has opened to the public , for the first time in nearly twenty years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Midfielder Les Briley , 35 , is recalled to the squad for the first time in nearly four months . |
| 25 | St Servatius church in Maastricht was restored for the first time in AD 725 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Karr smiled , relaxing for the first time in almost twelve hours of searching . |
| 30 | 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 . |