Example sentences of "the [num ord] time [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among those taking up the challenge was Haslemere architect Alan Coombes , who entered for the 15th time with his 1914 three-and-a-half horsepower three-speed , 4,500cc Douglas . |
| 2 | Another member , Bernard Edwards , entered for the second time with his partner Steve Kenning and achieved the excellent time of 2 hours 34 minutes and a few seconds , knocking more than a quarter of an hour off their time last year . |
| 3 | The second time through you miss out the first time bar ( 8 ) and take the second time bar ( 9 ) and continue on with bars 10 , 11 etc . |
| 4 | For the second time in its history , New Scientist is attempting to move from a printing process based on solid metal type to one in which a computer stores the words . |
| 5 | Already Chelsea fans are talking with conviction about the club winning the championship for only the second time in its history . |
| 6 | The XVIth triennial General Conference of International Council of Museums ( ICOM ) will take place in Quebec City ( 19–26 September ) , marking only the second time in its forty-six year history that the group has met in North America . |
| 7 | When the property came up for sale , for only the second time in its long history , a telegram was despatched to Honora , who was working in London : ‘ Will you invest savings in Plas ? ’ |
| 8 | They would be routed for the second time in their existence , and their slaves — the people — would be set free and return to fight with God against them ! |
| 9 | Three more tries followed to rub more salt into Trinity 's wounds and put Crusaders into the second round of the Regal Trophy for only the second time in their history . |
| 10 | It was the second time in their acquaintanceship that she had put her hand on his thigh . |
| 11 | For the second time in her life , she says , he had appeared out of the blue as it were and too charge . |
| 12 | In the first quarter of 1980 the ICI group was making profits at a rate of six hundred million pounds a year and in the third quarter we posted a loss for only the second time in our history . |
| 13 | For the second time in his life the icy fingers of death pierced his innermost self . |
| 14 | It was a foregone conclusion that Haslam would for the second time in his career find himself ‘ pitch-forked ’ into a retrenchment programme . |
| 15 | For the second time in his military career Leslie now encountered a piece of equipment to which an unattractive female name and personality was attributed . |
| 16 | My father said , for the second time in his life , that it could not all happen again . |
| 17 | SMOOTH TV frontman Frank Bough lost his cool yesterday after being named in kinky sex allegations splashed across a Sunday newspaper — for the second time in his career . |
| 18 | Derbyshire opener Barnett carried his bat for the second time in his career with 108 in 227 minutes against Glamorgan at Derby — over half the final total in a 191-defeat . |
| 19 | Derbyshire opener Barnett carried his bat for the second time in his career with 108 in 227 minutes against Glamorgan at Derby — over half the final total in a 191-defeat . |
| 20 | And so , for the second time in his life , Lawrence Beesley found himself leaving the Titanic just before it was due to go down . |
| 21 | Now in January 1979 , as he fled Teheran for the second time in his life , the Shah had intended to fly on to America after just a few day in Egypt . |
| 22 | PAUL ELLIOTT , Chelsea centre-back , has injured cruciate knee ligaments for the second time in his career . |
| 23 | The 17-year-old Cuemasters youngster from Wishaw has now reached the last 16 of a ranking tournament for only the second time in his fledgling career . |
| 24 | I think this will be the sixth time of my career that a promotion or relegation issue has reached the final day . |
| 25 | I think this will be the sixth time of my career that a promotion or relegation issue has reached the final day . |
| 26 | In 1991 , he finished number one in the Order of Merit for the sixth time in his career . |
| 27 | But in a house in the heart of the Woodfield Estate there was no whistling as a man searched the streets for the fourth time for his child , then finally , belatedly , picked up a telephone and rang the police . |
| 28 | This was only the fourth time on which the UN had imposed sanctions , the previous occasions being sanctions against Rhodesia , South Africa and Iraq . |
| 29 | For the fourth time in its five year history , the ARC , the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers , has been bedevilled by light winds on what should be the tradewind route from the Canary Islands to the West Indies . |
| 30 | Richmond have since sought help from Middlesex in pursuing the issue while Chilcott , dismissed for the fourth time in his career with Bath , awaits the result of tonight 's meeting of the Somerset Disciplinary Committee . |