Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [num ord] time [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only the second time this season we 've been comprehensively beaten . |
| 2 | With Britain 's other 1500 metres hope , Kevin McKay , also missing out , we do n't have a runner in the final for only the second time this century . |
| 3 | Chatam , running for only the second time this season , went a length up as the pair jumped the last together but Mark Dwyer , riding with hands and heels , forced Jodami a head in front at the post . |
| 4 | It is only the second time this century that a school of sperm whales has been seen in the waters around Orkney . |
| 5 | This is only the fifth time this has happened in 20 years : the others were in 1970 , 1973 , 1974 and 1981 . |
| 6 | Last year 's unstoppable strikeforce of Mark Hateley and Ally McCoist will team up for only the third time this season , Hateley with a ten goal start on his partner . |
| 7 | On the strength of its hearings for the first eighteen applications the Reviewing Committee for the Export of Works of Art duly stopped all the drawings and starred the group , thus indicating its special status only the sixth time this has ever happened . |
| 8 | It is not the first time Irish players have had to endure bitter disappointment . |
| 9 | This was not the first time that water had been collected in bulk , but hitherto those who indulged in the practice had generally been powerful bodies , like water or railway companies , who had acted under powers given them by legislation which at the same time made them liable for harm done by its escape . |
| 10 | At the weekend the prime minister , Giuliano Amato , had to reshuffle his cabinet because of the resignation of his finance and health ministers , not the first time that cabinet members have left the government in disgrace . |
| 11 | This is not the first time such suggestions have been made . |
| 12 | But a mental health charity says it 's not the first time such an incident has occurred . |
| 13 | It 's not the first time this has happened : he 's gone with prostitutes before . |
| 14 | A spokesperson for the workers said the dust was so thick in the air it could be seen : ‘ This is not the first time this had occurred . |
| 15 | The decision in 1990 by Britain to join the ERM was , indeed , not the first time this century that she has tried to defend herself from the possible consequences of wrong decisions by her own politicians by linking herself to those made by politicians in another country , through the mechanism of a fixed or managed exchange rate . |
| 16 | And it 's not the first time this has happened . |
| 17 | ‘ It was also the first time that steam , which is the lifeblood of THORP was introduced into the highly active area . ’ |
| 18 | The samples were subjected to sophisticated analytical techniques at the Research and Engineering Centre , Sunbury — probably the first time that rock from the region has been analysed in the West , said Dave . |
| 19 | What with Mrs Clements and the girls also gone for the week , I suppose I was very conscious of the fact that once I departed , Darlington Hall would stand empty for probably the first time this century — perhaps for the first time since the day it was built . |
| 20 | For it was n't the first time this had happened , by no means . |
| 21 | The outcome of the strike and its immediate consequences was that for almost the first time many people , including politicians in the Republic , who had previously been unconvinced were now satisfied that the majority of people in Northern Ireland would not accept a united Ireland and wished to have another election before their future was again discussed . |