Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the first time since " in BNC.
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| 1 | By mid-1966 unemployment in Germany exceeded vacancies for the first time since 1959 . |
| 2 | Kohl , in eastern Germany for the first time since the December 1990 general election , was jeered and pelted with eggs by several hundred protesters on April 7 in Erfurt ( where enthusiastic crowds of over 100,000 had greeted him on his last visit in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) . |
| 3 | His two goals helped Vale beat local rivals Stoke for the first time since 1956 and for the first time ever in the FA Cup . |
| 4 | Lisburn , with a 13-point cushion , go to Strangford Road at the top of their form and if they can come away with a maximum haul of 22 points , will be very comfortably placed at home to North the following week , with the prospect of the trophy making its way back to Wallace Park for the first time since 1980 . |
| 5 | KEVIN DEARDEN saved a second-half penalty to earn Birmingham a 2–1 victory over Bolton which lifted them back to the top of the Third Division for the first time since November . |
| 6 | It dipped further on occasions when an end to the war seemed in prospect , notably on Feb. 15 and again on Feb. 19 , when it went briefly below $16 for the first time since July 1990 . |
| 7 | In elections to the National Assembly on April 26 [ see p. 36019 ] , the DJP emerged as the largest single party but failed to retain an overall majority for the first time since its formation in 1981 . |
| 8 | In elections to the National Assembly on April 26 , 1988 , the DJP emerged as the largest single party but failed to retain an overall majority for the first time since its formation in 1981 [ see pp. 36019-22 ] . |
| 9 | Robson swooped back into Premier League action for the first time since 6 December , but his 14-minute cameo appearance was not long enough for the rusty 36-year-old to re-charge a championship bid which is going rapidly flat . |
| 10 | At the funeral Judith comes to terms with grief for the first time since the birth . |
| 11 | Sean Dodds , for Kelly , said he was out with his girlfriend for the first time since the birth of their baby . |
| 12 | ‘ We have lost two League games in succession for the first time since August . |
| 13 | Rangers ' goalkeeper , who has a valid claim to the title of Britain 's best by his displays in Europe this season , has missed two matches in succession for the first time since joining the club from Hibs and will not train today . |
| 14 | But with seven wins from their last eight , the Chargers look set to reach the play-offs for the first time since 1982 — the first to do so after such a poor start . |
| 15 | WARTIME Spitfire pilot F/L Tony Cooper was recently re-united with his aircraft for the first time since crashing on marshland near the Humber Estuary in 1944 . |
| 16 | He is under 13 stone in weight for the first time since his teens . |
| 17 | Butter is in the supermarkets of Timisoara for the first time since March last year . |
| 18 | One further return to Carolingian precedent occurred at the very end of Louis VII 's reign , when coinage from the king 's mints and bearing his image began to circulate outside the royal demesne for the first time since the late ninth century . |
| 19 | Labour 's rather narrow parliamentary majority in 1964 was chiefly an effect of a slump in Tory support and continuing electoral revival of the Liberals ( who received over 10 per cent of the vote for the first time since the war ) . |
| 20 | The decision by the Financial Times to back Labour for the first time since 1966 was attacked by Sir John Banham , director general of the Confederation of British Industry . |
| 21 | Until then , Cambridge had looked set to record only their second win in 17 years and to take the trophy for the first time since its introduction by the present sponsors in 1987 . |
| 22 | This was always going to be a difficult match for Hammer to win , as they were up against a ‘ Mill side eager to take the trophy for the first time since 1974 . |
| 23 | The House of Commons met on a Saturday for the first time since the war . |
| 24 | The ironical and fundamental point is that during these post-war years , when international demand for tropical commodities for the first time since 1921 really justified vast investments in the Colonies ; when the Colonies had a huge back-log of demand for essential equipment ; when at last the British government was equipped with power to give or lend considerable sums to top up what the Colonies could afford to invest from their own accumulating surplus ; and when . |
| 25 | JORDAN 'S Prime Minister , Mr Mudar Badran , yesterday announced the freezing of martial law for the first time since 1967 as a prelude for formally revoking most of its provisions and abolishing it . |
| 26 | This trailblazing series is currently on show at the National Portrait Gallery in its entirety for the first time since 1935 , together with more conventional colour portraits of John Gielgud , Vivien Leigh , the Mountbattens and Lisa Maugham , and black-and-white work from the later years . |
| 27 | The Norwegian whaling fleet has already set sail to study stock sizes and to establish how many fish minke whales eat , and in May will begin commercial catches for the first time since 1987 . |
| 28 | Hull moved out of the Second Division relegation zone for the first time since mid-September with a 2-1 win over Plymouth last night — their fourth win in their last six games and their third successive victory under the new manager Stan Ternant . |
| 29 | It was Forest 's fifth win in seven league games and lifted them above Middlesbrough and out of the relegation zone for the first time since the beginning of September . |
| 30 | The end of a 10-year drought : David Gower hits the winning runs and England have beaten Pakistan in a Test match for the first time since 1982 |