Example sentences of "first time [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beating Rangers for the first time in a year ( the first time for two years at home ) did nothing other than give a long suffering Celtic support one night of remission . |
| 2 | Development spending was to rise by 21 per cent to taka86,500 million , exceeding the total for recurrent expenditure ( up 8 per cent at taka85,500 million ) for the first time for five years . |
| 3 | ‘ Once you start saving yourselves for big games and ducking out of tackles , you get into the wrong frame of mind and that is very dangerous , ’ warned Howard , who is hoping to steer his side through to the second round of the FA Cup for the first time for 17 years . |
| 4 | ‘ Once you start saving yourselves for big games and ducking out of tackles , you get into the wrong frame of mind and that is very dangerous , ’ warned Howard , who is hoping to steer his side through to the second round of the FA Cup for the first time for 17 years . |
| 5 | Provincial elections on Aug. 8 in three provinces gave unexpected encouragement to the ruling Peronist party ( Partido Justicialista — PJ ) , which retained control of San Luis and captured San Juan province for the first time for 18 years ; the opposition Radical Party ( UCR ) retained control of Río Negro . |
| 6 | Jimmy Carter 's presidency , like that of Gerald Ford , began on an optimistic note with commentators deriving satisfaction from the fact that for the first time for eight years president and Congress would be in the hands of the same party . |
| 7 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 8 | This disenfranchising policy will be taken a stage further in the political domain , with the linking for the first time for fifty years of the right to vote with the payment of contributions to local government exchequers . |
| 9 | In particular , the Soviet Union secured ‘ most favoured nation ’ access to the US market for the first time for fifty years . |
| 10 | It 's the first time for 11 years they 've reached the final stages . |
| 11 | For the first time for many years , there is no specific motion supporting the long-standing policy goal of devolution , based on agreement between local parties . |
| 12 | I read them both again erm last year for the first time for many years , and I found Herodotus much the better of the two , because Herodotus was prepared to be curious about everything . |
| 13 | In the nadir of the recession in 1981 the strongest brand name was removed from the recruitment advertising pages and became , for the first time for 20 years , an unseen operator . |
| 14 | The 37 participating countries included Taiwan ( competing under the name Taipei:China ) , Vietnam ( for the first time for 20 years ) and Kuwait , but not Iraq , excluded by an emergency meeting of the Olympic Council of Asia on Sept. 20 because of its Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait . |
| 15 | It was the fourth rise in German interest rates this year and the first time for several years that they have risen by a full percentage point . |
| 16 | When John Smith takes over , it will be the first time for 12 years that the right wing has openly held Labour 's leadership . |
| 17 | It may also be relevant that the terrorist bombing campaign appeared , for the first time for some years , to be targeting shopping areas directly , as well as widening the net outside London . |
| 18 | I was abused for the first time at three years old . |
| 19 | There is now full time working at all the operational distilleries for the first time in eight years . |
| 20 | Rosalind Plowright , singing at ENO for the first time in eight years , is an Elisabeth de Valois of aptly regal appearance , though her initially expressive line showed increasing signs of strain . |
| 21 | Until he won the Paris Open earlier this month — where he also beat world No 1 Courier — he was n't even certain to qualify for this ‘ best eight ’ in the world ’ tournament , having fallen to 10th in the rankings for the first time in eight years , and failing to make a Grand Slam final for the first time in five . |
| 22 | Regular Lebanese army units moved into Beirut 's southern suburbs on Dec. 29-30 , for the first time in eight years . |
| 23 | For the first time in recent years , payments to producers showed no increase , at 20.2p/litre , although Mr Howie pointed out it was the best figure among the five UK boards . |
| 24 | Gorbachev disclosed that " for the first time in recent years we laid quite a strong stress on what our economic relations should be like " , although he failed to provide details on the precise content of the talks . |
| 25 | Underlining government irritation with the success of Labour 's presentation , some aides privately are complaining , for the first time in many years , about Labour bias in the Press . |
| 26 | The trial of Mr Subono and Mr Nugroho was the first time in many years that the law was used to try ‘ leftists ’ rather than Muslim activists . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The town has always been a primary IRA target but this is the first time in many years that it has singled out the commercial centre . |
| 29 | Here the Unionists were challenged for the first time in many years but the NILP shared the anti-Unionist vote with Independents , who polled 4.5 per cent in North and 2 per cent in Waterside . |
| 30 | He put her on an elimination diet , and within two weeks her bowels were functioning normally , for the first time in many years . |