Example sentences of "[conj] the first time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the fourth rise in German interest rates this year and the first time for several years that they have risen by a full percentage point . |
| 2 | Base rate was on Sept. 22 further reduced to 9 per cent ( its lowest level since mid-1988 and the first time since 1981 that it stood below the German Lombard rate ) . |
| 3 | and the first time by |
| 4 | It was the first personal bequest she had ever received , and the first time in years that she had cried . |
| 5 | Long jumper Anthony Mason , of Ipswich Harriers , cleared seven metres for the first time in his career to smash the junior men 's record by 34 centimetres , and 16-year-old Keith Davis shaved a tenth of a second off the under-17 400 metres record with a time of 52.0 seconds . |