Example sentences of "[prep] the first time since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Statistics on the death penalty in the USSR have been made public for the first time since 1934 . |
| 2 | Perhaps , though , his greatest achievement , was in leading tennis back into the Olympic Games for the first time since 1924 . |
| 3 | The result : Des was airlifted out of the Gulf in mid-May and , on May 29 , at Arden Grange International Quarantine Kennels in Albourne , Sussex , Dave saw Des for the first time since March 23 . |
| 4 | Marco van Basten , the European Footballer of the Year , gave European champions Milan a timely boost by returning to the squad for training this week for the first time since a cartilage operation on 1 September . |
| 5 | The local club , Cremonese , won for the first time since gaining promotion - and their victims were the European Cup holders , Milan . |
| 6 | Yesterday afternoon the New York markets opened for the first time since Friday night and saw that sterling had weakened about 9 pfennigs since then . |
| 7 | General Motors and Ford both expect to lose money on car manufacturing this quarter for the first time since the 1982 recession , largely as a result of overcapacity in the market . |
| 8 | The three major US car makers saw their stock prices decline after analysts predicted quarterly losses on their North American businesses for the first time since the 1982 recession . |
| 9 | It sold dollars and European currency units for pounds in a determined fashion to counter heavy selling , which briefly pushed the pound down below DM2.95 for the first time since August 1987 . |
| 10 | Selling pressure also sent sterling briefly below DM2.95 for the first time since August 1987 . |
| 11 | McKenzie was fighting for the first time since losing his IBF title to Ulster 's Dave McAuley . |
| 12 | He is under 13 stone in weight for the first time since his teens . |
| 13 | For the first time since the end of the Falklands war there was , also , a less than total confidence among ministers in the certainty of the coming victory at the polls . |
| 14 | For the Liberals , they gained an indirect foothold in government for the first time since 1931 in peacetime circumstances , and it flattered their self-esteem as a small third force to become part of the governing process . |
| 15 | The government lost by one vote , 311 to 310 , and for the first time since October 1924 an administration had been voted out of office through a Commons vote . |
| 16 | At last the ‘ special relationship ’ seemed to have some meaning , perhaps for the first time since the days of Macmillan . |
| 17 | The House of Commons met on a Saturday for the first time since the war . |
| 18 | It was also a problem which enabled Labour 's new young leader , Neil Kinnock , to make his mark , perhaps for the first time since his election in October 1983 . |
| 19 | In effect , for the first time since 1922 , the direct interest of the Dublin government in the internal affairs of Northern Ireland was explicitly set out . |
| 20 | The ironical and fundamental point is that during these post-war years , when international demand for tropical commodities for the first time since 1921 really justified vast investments in the Colonies ; when the Colonies had a huge back-log of demand for essential equipment ; when at last the British government was equipped with power to give or lend considerable sums to top up what the Colonies could afford to invest from their own accumulating surplus ; and when . |
| 21 | For the first time since 1952 Bentley has an all-new shape to itself with the massive Continental R coupe . |
| 22 | For the first time since his arrival , Wexford remembered that there was another child , a mongol , confined somewhere in an institution . |
| 23 | At the Invalidenstrasse crossing , an older man wept as he explained : ‘ I 'm going across for the first time since August 12 , 1961 . |
| 24 | At the same time , though , there are more people who can , perhaps for the first time since 1967 , imagine that the Jews could go west , back into the green line , or into new borders adjusted to rid themselves of their Palestinian burden . |
| 25 | At the same time , though , there are more people who can , perhaps for the first time since 1967 , imagine that the Jews could go west , back into the green line , or into new borders adjusted to rid themselves of their Palestinian burden . |
| 26 | It will decide whether to impose a ‘ red alert ’ , for the first time since 1975 , after collating the latest figures today . |
| 27 | Soutter , the fourth seed , thus beat the player who caused her exclusion from England 's world title-winning team , in a final that for the first time since 1979 contained neither of the Guernsey girls , Martine le Moignan and Lisa Opie . |
| 28 | JORDAN 'S Prime Minister , Mr Mudar Badran , yesterday announced the freezing of martial law for the first time since 1967 as a prelude for formally revoking most of its provisions and abolishing it . |
| 29 | Hull moved out of the Second Division relegation zone for the first time since mid-September with a 2-1 win over Plymouth last night — their fourth win in their last six games and their third successive victory under the new manager Stan Ternant . |
| 30 | For the first time since 1979 , western semiconductor companies gained market share from Japanese rivals last year , according to Dataquest , a market researcher . |