Example sentences of "[unc] [prep] the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they were included he would surely return to No.1 for the first time in six years . |
| 2 | Now on the seventeenth of September Mr met Peter on the defendant 's firm er for the first time at his office , where they had er a general discussion about the business and about what needed to be done in order to secure it and er the plaintiffs at that stage told Peter that there should be er no problems over finance as he understood the bank were willing to assist and at that stage he wanted to move as quickly as possible to exchange contracts on the business erm , for two reasons . |
| 3 | When he came to work on La fanciulla del West for the first time , it was with a certain amount of awe . |
| 4 | To run BBCBASIC(Z80) for the first time : Make sure the " Index " is displayed on your Z88 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Selling pressure also sent sterling briefly below DM2.95 for the first time since August 1987 . |
| 7 | Hosting the 250 cc Grand Prix for the first time … but not the last . |
| 8 | With $1.5 billion of coffee exports last year , Colombia 's share overtook Brazil 's for the first time . |
| 9 | BRITAIN 'S inflation rate yesterday went lower than Germany 's for the first time in 24 years . |
| 10 | The UK inflation rate in February remained at 4.1pcm , lower than Germany 's for the first time in 25 years . |
| 11 | Paris and Frankfurt are growing particularly fast ( capitalisation increases of 83 per cent and 64 per cent respectively during 1989 ) , with turnover of domestic equities on German Exchanges being larger than the ISE 's for the first time ever in 1989 . |
| 12 | At Motorfair , Nissan shows its new 300 ZX for the first time in Britain . |
| 13 | Highlight is the Manx International over three laps ( 113 miles ) , which goes back Am/Pro for the first time since it started in 1936 . |
| 14 | There was a competition , and the winner saw his work in situ for the first time this afternoon . |
| 15 | That amount has just passed £1 billion per annum for the first time , representing a real terms increase of 2.5 per cent . |
| 16 | Patients living within the defined geographical area were considered to have severe acute renal failure if the serum creatinine concentration rose above 500 µmol/l for the first time and then returned to below that level and remained there or if the patient died during the acute illness and the history or necropsy confirmed acute renal failure . |
| 17 | The average wage increase in industry this spring is slightly below five per cent for the first time in four years . |
| 18 | Their share of the national vote dropped more than five per cent to below 30 per cent for the first time . |
| 19 | In fact , while the overall United Kingdom result shows a modest swing to Labour , in Scotland Labour 's share of the vote fell by 3.5 per cent , dropping below 40 per cent for the first time since October 1974 . |
| 20 | Yesterday the region — once the engine room of the late Eighties boom — saw its jobless total top 10 per cent for the first time since the end of the Second World War . |
| 21 | The Christian Democrats ( DC ) polled under 30 per cent for the first time since 1946 , but remained the largest party with 29.7 per cent and 206 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |