Example sentences of "[be] only the [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | It will be only the second time in 27 Tests at the Kensington Oval that no Barbadian fast bowler is included . |
2 | It is only the second time the ITV company has followed the American idea of using a survey to back up launch plans . |
3 | This is only the second time out for the Pond Racer . |
4 | This is only the second time that 6203 has hauled passenger trains at the Centre , the first was in November 1991 when thick fog rather spoilt any photographic opportunities . |
5 | This is only the second time in post-war history that war booty art treasures have been put on view . |
6 | This is only the second time that the House has been given an opportunity to debate the momentous consequences of the closure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International . |
7 | In 20 years as headmaster this is only the second time something like this has happened and the previous incident was even smaller . ’ |
8 | ‘ This is only the second time Derry has got through to the final in 35 years , so tickets this year are like gold dust , ’ he said . |
9 | It is only the second time the Tour de France has visited Britain . |
10 | It is only the second time this century that a school of sperm whales has been seen in the waters around Orkney . |
11 | This is only the fifth time this has happened in 20 years : the others were in 1970 , 1973 , 1974 and 1981 . |
12 | It is only the fifth time in the post-war history of the tournament that this has happened , and only the third time there has been a First Division v Second Division clash in each semi-final . |
13 | ‘ This is only the third time I 've met him . ’ |
14 | Incredibly , this is only the third time the ‘ Amateur ’ has been in Ireland , and the championship was first played in 1885 . |
15 | This was their sixth successive League victory , and though it was only the first time they have scored three goals in a game this season , everyone at Highbury knows it could have been seven . |
16 | In fact , when he stunned Jim courier and double Wimbledon champion Stefan Edberg that week it was only the seventh time in over four years that feat had been achieved . |
17 | ‘ It was only the one time ? ’ |
18 | It was only the second time she had taken part and this race , taking less than ten minutes , had been a particularly fast one , but as she said , it was a family tradition to take part in it and she had really enjoyed it . |
19 | It was only the second time this season we 've been comprehensively beaten . |
20 | It was only the second time since they had been married that she had rebuffed him . |
21 | It was only the second time they had worked together . |
22 | It was only the second time Meg had seen Arthur really angry . |
23 | It was only the fourth time that one horse had completed a clear round . |
24 | This was only the fourth time that this legislation had been invoked . |
25 | This was only the fourth time on which the UN had imposed sanctions , the previous occasions being sanctions against Rhodesia , South Africa and Iraq . |
26 | It did not matter that it was only the fourth time they had met ; she knew this moment was exceptional in her life and that , while their physical passion might be impulsive and unplanned , it was inescapable . |
27 | It was only the third time Huntworth has got round in his last 13 races under Rules , but those three completions have brought three wins . |
28 | That was only the third time it had happened in New Zealand . |
29 | Ian Readman , honorary secretary of the Redcar Station , said he believed it was only the third time a crew at the station had received a medal in the 190 years since the Zetland was first launched from Redcar . |