Example sentences of "last [noun] [prep] the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | FORMER England goalkeeper Peter Shilton was sent off last night for the first time in his long career . |
| 2 | What came was a sort of double-image — the boy I had known up to yesterday , young , grubby , entertaining , kind , lively , with his impish , monkey-plainness ; and the face I had seen last night for the first time , a face wiped clean of everything but rapture and tenderness and astonishment , a different face , a face to love and find beautiful . |
| 3 | CELTIC savoured victory over Hibs at Parkhead last night for the first time since Liam Brady took over as manager , thanks to a couple of well-taken goals from Andy Payton . |
| 4 | CELTIC savoured victory over Hibs at Parkhead last night for the first time since Liam Brady took over as manager , thanks to a couple of well-taken goals from Andy Payton . |
| 5 | The yield to maturity on the active-issues index of Donaldson , Lufkin & Jenrette , a Wall Street brokerage , fell below 19% last month for the first time since September . |
| 6 | Unadjusted unemployment , which topped three million last month for the first time since 1987 , fell by 19,451 to 3,042,614 — 10.8 per cent of the workforce . |
| 7 | Government statistics showed the number of people without work fell last month for the first time in more than two years |
| 8 | With the bursting of the bubble , land prices fell last year for the first time in 17 years . |
| 9 | Last year for the first time there were European dressage titles in two categories : Werth won the conventional Special , while Rothenberger took the freestyle . |
| 10 | IBM , which announced a major restructuring after plunging into the red last year for the first time in its history , made an after-tax profit of $595m in the three months ending March . |
| 11 | The under-21s are more even highly-fancied to retain the national title , which they won last year for the first time by beating Nottinghamshire in the final . |
| 12 | Rural living standards in most areas had improved significantly in the 1980s , but last year for the first time they fell back . |
| 13 | Last year for the first time , Nuclear Electric was able to operate the Dungeness B nuclear power station at over 1200MWe , largely thanks to an AEA computer-based reactor protection system . |
| 14 | Last year for the first time we were charged £10.58 for an audit certificate — something District Audit assure me takes a few minutes to complete and is provided free of charge by most banks . |
| 15 | FRENCH exports of wines and spirits fell last year for the first time in 20 years as recession caught up with one of the country 's proudest industries . |
| 16 | I read them both again erm last year for the first time for many years , and I found Herodotus much the better of the two , because Herodotus was prepared to be curious about everything . |