Example sentences of "the [num ord] time [prep] " 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 | Having decided to leave out Phillip DeFreitas for the 15th time in a start-stop career , Dexter and Co had precious few alternatives to consider . |
| 3 | He was still a moment , watching her , astonished for the hundredth time by the fragile beauty of her , then began to eat again , realising with a laugh just how hungry he had been . |
| 4 | It is success for the second time for Mr Myers and his long-term business partner Karen Jones . |
| 5 | Having been frustrated in her 1988 cruise to Scandinavia , Islander headed north-east once more last summer and this time succeeded in passing through the Limfjord , sailing down the Kattegat and up into the Baltic as far as Stockholm before retracing her steps to visit Copenhagen for the second time on this voyage . |
| 6 | On Wednesday 13 February , we met for the second time with pensions as the agenda item . |
| 7 | A rib cage injury forced Pringle to leave the ground after five overs , in which he conceded only six for Haynes 's wicket , and Simmons then broke free for the second time with devastating effect . |
| 8 | It was ironical that Adam , who was the owner of that big house and all that land and the contents of the house , nevertheless went down to Nunes the second time with less than a fiver in his pocket . |
| 9 | JACK BERRY went ton up for the second time with two Warwick winners yesterday , just to prove that no one needs a magic carpet to be a hit . |
| 10 | Faced for the second time with the collapse of Balliol 's rule , Edward once again mobilized an army , this time for a winter campaign which proved unpopular with the troops and which was abandoned under pressure from Philip VI to conclude a truce , which was to last from Easter to midsummer 1335 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He has n't , but on this occasion and for the second time with just over twenty minutes played , the Pisa goalkeeper was picking the ball out of the back of the net . |
| 13 | The seventy five year old bachelor had finally got his girl at the second time of asking years He 'd waited half a century for this kiss with his new bride Rose , and he still could n't believe his luck . |
| 14 | He proved how difficult this feat is by failing to repeat it at the second time of asking . |
| 15 | The game about to be got under way here , it 's the second time of course that we 've had the taste of European football in just er inside a few weeks here at Lane , a very poor night for weather , you who 've not ventured out well , I think we understand that er because er as we say , it 's not a night when you would turn the dog out . |
| 16 | He was married twice : the first time in 1739 to Anne Bayne , who died tragically in childbirth four years later , and the second time to Margaret Lindsay with whom he eloped in 1752 in highly romantic circumstances . |
| 17 | She is married for the second time to a man 15 years her junior . |
| 18 | And , if any other recommendation be needed , I was asked for the second time to be coach monitor on our outing to Brighton , so you can see that I must be OK . |
| 19 | Joshua married , for the second time at the same church Elizabeth Hartley , and William soon had a half-brother , Bernard Hartley Green , who died on 16th August 1820 . |
| 20 | In the subsequent weeks leading up to Christmas , Liza saw Freddie Nash only twice : once at a private party given by two officers who rented a small cottage in the district , the second time at a dance organised by a certain county grande dame , who seemed to think she was destined to introduce the opposite sex to one another as her personal contribution to the war effort . |
| 21 | Fresh Art , the only fair to show the work of British graduates and post-graduates , will be held for the second time at the Business Design Centre , Upper Street , Islington , London N1 from 17 July to 1 August . |
| 22 | When Sir John let go for the second time at the age of 86 in 1982 , he put Littlewoods in the hands of the first non-family chairman . |
| 23 | Or the actor who stumbles over his words for the second time at a rehearsal . |
| 24 | A YOUNGER set of judges would provide a better image to the public : so says Mr Harold Hewitt , who last weekend sat for the last time , retiring for the second time at the age of 75 . |
| 25 | And at three or four a.m. that morning , as O and Boy kissed for the second time , the blade of a Stanley knife sliced for the second time across the cheek of a man ( I do n't remember his name , it was n't anyone I knew ) who was at that time on his own , not with anyone , just waiting , on his own , at a bus stop , waiting for a night bus which was due at any minute . |
| 26 | He fell twice , going down the second time across a litter of boxes , and losing the gun . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The Congress Party , the biggest single group in the house , but now in opposition for only the second time since independence in 1947 , had no option but to sit in silence when the voice-vote was called . |
| 29 | For the second time since the 19th century the value of the try has been changed and for the second time this century the drop goal value has been altered . |
| 30 | In September the Ivoirien government cut the price it paid cocoa farmers for the second time since July , to CFA200 per kilogramme ( £368 a tonne ) . |