Example sentences of "[prep] the first time in " in BNC.
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| 31 | DAVE SEXTON , the England Under-21 manager , is prepared to search for friendly fixtures if his side fall out of the European Championships at the qualifying stage for the first time in 12 years . |
| 32 | FOR THE first time in English legal history , judges ' decisions to close their doors to the Press and public have been challenged in the Court of Appeal . |
| 33 | At Motorfair , Nissan shows its new 300 ZX for the first time in Britain . |
| 34 | According to Wine & Spirit magazine , the supermarkets overtook the specialist wine retailers ( which include pubs and independent wine merchants ) for the first time in 1987 , increasing their slice of the table-wine market since 1984 from 47 to 53 per cent . |
| 35 | Erich Honecker , the party leader , spoke about the country 's problems for the first time in an address to party leaders , but simply echoed the Politburo statement . |
| 36 | CAIRO ( Reuter ) — Libya 's leader , Muammar Gaddafi , will visit Egypt tomorrow for the first time in 16 years and hold talks with President Hosni Mubarak , Egyptian presidential sources said . |
| 37 | And last Monday Dr Harold Varmus let it be known that the thrill of winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine in the morning was as nothing compared with being at Candlestick Park in the evening to see the Giants take the National League pennant for the first time in 27 years . |
| 38 | I fill a mess-tin with meat , potatoes , and various vegetables , and for the first time in many months , I pour a very delicious gravy over the lot . |
| 39 | Moving for the first time in this book to Moscow and central administration , we find that from 18 July 1921 , the Central Commission for the Relief of the Starving ( Pomgol ) was in charge of the Famine programme . |
| 40 | For the first time in this book we shall take a closer look at one branch of the proletariat . |
| 41 | Under the leadership of a woman Prime Minister for the first time in western European history , the forces of the right , of private business , and the beleaguered middle class regrouped to redesign their nation before it was too late . |
| 42 | For the first time in a decade the Thatcherite crusade seemed to be faltering , though how permanently it was too early to judge . |
| 43 | For the first time in her premiership she had won a knock-out victory . |
| 44 | The film of the Douglas Bader story ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ was shown on the big screen for the first time in many years , and the Association was able to contribute £20,200 to the RAF Benevolent Fund as a result of this effort . |
| 45 | The net costs of Eagle Lodges appear for the first time in the income and expenditure account and are largely attributable to setting up costs as there was little income from occupancy during 1990 . |
| 46 | But now , for the first time in English history , a set of circumstances existed which tested , whether this doctrine is always workable . |
| 47 | A&R staff do n't listen to a tape for the first time in front of a new artist . |
| 48 | I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more . |
| 49 | finally , a new political awareness was making Colonial populations more than ever critical of their relationship with the metropolis , Britain , for the first time in her modern Imperial history , was literally unable to deliver the goods . |
| 50 | In her bedroom now , sipping her whisky , she acknowledged for the first time in her life that if she had to make a list of the happy times , it would properly have to include the hours she had spent with Graham in his garden . |
| 51 | About six months after the dinner party she realised that , for the first time in her life , she had turned down a decent journalistic commission in order to start work for a crazy old lady off Ladbroke Grove , whose garden specialised in old roses , and who was insistent about sterilising soil before new plantings . |
| 52 | Occasionally she could see a gleam in Rachel 's eye , as though she might suddenly ask him if his intentions were honourable , but for the first time in her life she learned to be grateful for her mother 's good manners . |
| 53 | As she ran up to her room she was , for the first time in her life , actively grateful to Phoebe and Rachel for their absolute laws of tidiness . |
| 54 | In Zambia , the provision of hybrid maize seed , fertiliser and marketing services to small-scale farmers dated from the mid 1960s ; in Kenya the provision of such services was extended for the first time in the 1960s well beyond the Kikuyu . |
| 55 | as if he suddenly wanted to return the girls ' favour on this Monaghan Day , he spoke to them openly about the war for the first time in their lives . |
| 56 | Tile Kiln are in the final for the first time in 35 years of trying and include Brian Gladden , twice previous winner of the Shield with Defiant Mobile and Duke of Wellington , and former Defiant captain Billy Jones . |
| 57 | Horse and Jockey AC match secretary Mick Dryers had an unusual Sunday morning — he spent it at home for the first time in two years . |
| 58 | I wonder what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first for the first time in his life ? |
| 59 | For the first time in nearly 40 years Bentley has a shape to call its own . |
| 60 | Yet , in the presence of Williams , he felt ‘ for the first time in my life … in the presence of personal sanctity … |