Example sentences of "for the [num ord] [noun] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | said farewell to Key Street staff for the second time round in March , having retired previously from the engineering department . |
| 2 | Once I have finished knitting the first side of the neck it is very easy to replace the stitches for the second side on to the correct needles and knit on for a ‘ clean ’ neck every time . |
| 3 | Rozario looking for the first flick on as you say . |
| 4 | ‘ He paid for the first round out of a fiver and the third with another fiver . |
| 5 | A few people were already astir in the first village they passed through , and when they reached the piazza in Pontino higher up a huddled group stood within the light and warmth of the doorway of the Bar Italia waiting for the first bus down to Florence . |
| 6 | His storm lasted two and half days , leaving him ragged and with only enough energy to get to the airport to be ready for the first flight out . |
| 7 | They waited for the first flight out of Iraq on which there were seats . |
| 8 | In the bedroom she had done everything that Tom Horrocks had bidden her , reflexively , without panic ; yet she had known herself for the first time up against the frailty of the human organism — ; the mess of it , the degradation . |
| 9 | Fifteen for the first time round . |
| 10 | New workplaces opened for the first time on or after 1 January 1993 or those that are modified or extended or converted should comply with the Regulations immediately . |
| 11 | The ‘ Etruscans ’ exhibition , curated by Dr Francesco Buranelli of the Gregorian Etruscan Museum ( see p. 14 ) in the Vatican , brings to the US for the first time around 180 pieces from the Guglielmi Collection , including votive busts , cinerary urns , domestic items , gold jewellery , and bronzes such as the ‘ Putto Graziani ’ . |
| 12 | An exhibition that brings together ( for the first time in over a century ) the Pre-Raphaelites ' paintings , sculpture and decorative arts that decorated the houses of the region 's Victorian industrialists and entrepreneurs . |
| 13 | For a while Broad and Tavaré defended well , but then suddenly Holding , for the first time in over a year , decided to go back to his full-length run-up , without even having told Lloyd what he intended to do . |
| 14 | Demolition trains became a regular sight on Sundays during 1987 however , and for the first time in over 30 years it was possible to photograph trains without the hindrance of electric stanchions . |
| 15 | The old man , propped in his chair for the first time in over a month , laid a trembling hand on the babe 's head . |
| 16 | In March 1992 I returned to New Zealand for the first time in over a dozen years , to sample again what light aviation there has to offer visitors . |
| 17 | Sales of prime London properties are picking up and the latest quarterly bulletin from the London Research Centre shows that for the first time in over a year , average prices have not fallen . |
| 18 | As remaining male stragglers dragged their shocked bodies out and past the ‘ Men Only ’ sign , the women relaxed and , for the first time in over a quarter of a century , Irish women 's bodies felt the pleasure of sea and hot rocks in the Forty Foot at Sandycove . |
| 19 | It did rain there in 1971 … for the first time in about 400 years . |
| 20 | ON THURSDAY May 14 , GWR 4-4-0 No 3440 ‘ City of Truro ’ returned to her ‘ home town ’ , or rather ‘ home city ’ , for the first time in over thirty years . |
| 21 | Once more , for the first time in over 45 years , Dan Knight was back in England , back in the pilot 's seat of a B–17 that bore the name Mary Alice in the familiar yellow letters edged in red on the nose . |
| 22 | And for those few hours after she got home she found she could talk to her mother properly for the first time in over two years . |
| 23 | For the first time in over sixteen years , Elaine showed some signs of interest in him ! |
| 24 | These two documents provided , for the first time in over a century , a summary of the various arguments on the subject of a national audit office . |
| 25 | Large areas of western Scotland , mid- and North Wales and the upland zones of the North and South West of England have exhibited population gains , in some cases for the first time in over a century . |
| 26 | For the first time in over a month Charles felt certain that he had n't lost interest in sex . |
| 27 | For the first time in over forty years someone had humbled him on the board he considered his own . |
| 28 | There was a heady scent of rosemary and thyme in the air , and she breathed it in , feeling strangely at peace for the first time in as long as she could remember . |
| 29 | Worthy of note was the fact that for the first time in over 20 years we had a pensioner member playing in the event and whilst he does not want his name or score noted . |
| 30 | Now , for the first time in over a decade there is uncertainty over the Chelsea veteran 's inclusion . |