Example sentences of "time [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | staff would arrive before 2.00pm in time for the first session . |
| 2 | But enough of prologues and manifestos ; it is time for the first story . |
| 3 | Anyway , 25 years — nearly time for the first facelift , Billy . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the latest issue of RISC Management claims that ‘ the multi-threaded SMP capabilities that are the core of Solaris 2.0 will not appear until the fourth calendar quarter — in time for the first multi-processor Sparcstation shipments , but a year behind schedule . ’ |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Apple is predicting that it will have at least 70% of Macintosh applications recoded in time for the first batch of volume PowerPCs to hit the streets in 1993 , using AT&T Bell Laboratories spin-off , the Holmdel , New Jersey-based Echo Logic Inc , to do the recompiling . |
| 6 | The speech came over the wires so late and the sheets were so confused by the Post Office — which is usual in these cases — that without the precis we could not possibly have got the leader through in time for the first edition . |
| 7 | We are rushing out this newsletter in time for the first summer festival , at Kings Heath Park . |
| 8 | It 's 7.15 a.m. and time for the first break of the day . |
| 9 | The time between the first step command and the position detector pulse signalling completion of the first step is proportional to the value of COUNT , which is inversely proportional to the average motor speed over the step . |
| 10 | Each one could have removed his or her name at any time after the first printing and , indeed , two did . |
| 11 | Erm d do you remember much about the time after the first world war ? |
| 12 | 1986 ) , whereas smoking heroin was , at the time of the first survey , the preferred route of administration for four out of five known Wirral users . |
| 13 | What was very difficult to prove — but was much suspected , especially in the late 1940s , at the time of the first Press Commission — was that advertisers used their leverage to get favourable coverage and dampen criticism . |
| 14 | NSAID intake was noted as either intermittent or regular at the time of the first endoscopy only . |
| 15 | This river gets its name from the time of the first exploration of the island , when some of Zarco 's men were nearly swept away by the river but were rescued by other members of the party in a small boat . |
| 16 | It may be held at that important time of the first anniversary of the death , and is thus at the time when the people most bereaved may be thinking of re-engaging in life . |
| 17 | However , the most important ingredient missing hitherto from the peace process — international acceptance of the Palestinians ' choice of representative — was dramatically fulfilled at the time of the first anniversary of the Uprising . |
| 18 | Approximately one year after their initial interview , a further interview was sought with the principal carers whose relative was still alive ( though we did interview a sample of those whose relative had died ) and who had not already been living in an institution at the time of the first carer interview . |
| 19 | By the time of the first review of the Northumberland Structure Plan in 1984 , 64 hectares of this were still available . |
| 20 | It will do so through the collection of a new body of data on an area of public policy which will contribute to our understanding of : — UK science and technology policy ; — European collaboration in science and technology ; — UK relations with Europe , at the time of the first attempt to join the Common Market ; — UK relations with the USA , in an area of military as well as civil significance ; the development of space launcher and satellite industry . |
| 21 | On a commercial note , it may well be that the insertion of a landlord 's break will reduce the market rent obtainable for the property , a fact which will doubtless manifest itself at the time of the first rent review after the landlord 's power to break has become exercisable . |
| 22 | With the political will we could begin to change it from the time of the first by-election of the present parliament . |
| 23 | Around the time of the First World War , Clark brothers ceased operations , and the mill finally fell silent . |
| 24 | At the time of the First World War , the United Railways of Havana built a magnificent central terminal . |
| 25 | At Christchurch , proposals to replace the Gothic station of 1877 had been made at the time of the First World War and again in the 1930s , but it was not demolished until the 1950s , when it was replaced by a modern station more successful than most . |
| 26 | By the time of the First World War the company had taken over more than 50 small companies , as well as the docks at Hull ( q.v. ) , and its chief locomotive and wagon works at Doncaster employed nearly 5,000 people . |
| 27 | At the time of the First World War the Shorthorn was described as the most widely distributed of all the breeds of cattle , both at home and abroad , and it far exceeded other purebreds in Britain while the great majority of commercial crossbreds also relied on Shorthorn blood . |
| 28 | There , it seems , pregnant unwed women were still being serenaded by ‘ rough music ’ at the time of the First World War . |
| 29 | By the time of the First World War , an enormous number of quite small villages and hamlets had their own wayside station or halt , and at its peak Britain 's railway system was ( to Thomas ) ‘ almost absurdly dense ’ . |
| 30 | In bald form , Middlemas argues that around the time of the First World War the nineteenth-century British political system had broken down under the weight of the antagonism and conflicts in industrial society . |