Example sentences of "[num ord] time for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deal took place at a public inquiry in 1981 , when the owner , Wedgwood , was applying for a second time for consent to demolish . |
| 2 | It is success for the second time for Mr Myers and his long-term business partner Karen Jones . |
| 3 | A break during the middle of the day and a return to the stables — apart from the question of distance from the field where the work was being done — would have meant unyoking and yoking up a second time for another stint in the afternoon ; and this would have lengthened the day without appreciably lengthening the working time . |
| 4 | And then the ship had to be slipped , not once , but twice , first for the scraping , repainting and antifouling of the hull , then a second time for replacement of five defective keel bolts . |
| 5 | So I thought well I 'll carry one of these for when I 'm going out in my car to which , you know , and if somebody does come up to me I can use it in a positive manner while in a split second time for me , hopefully beca , cos of my range of work |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , there 's a first time for everything , as I m sure you remember , Mrs Cornforth … |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Brian , a twenty-year-old draughtsman , had seen it all before , but it was the first time for Jane , his nineteen-year-old wife , whose daytime job is as a telephonist . |
| 10 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 11 | THERE is a first time for everything : Aladdin was the first panto I 'd been to and the first Frank Bruno has performed in . |
| 12 | He started typing and found himself enjoying it for the first time for years . |
| 13 | The NRA will introduce legally binding water quality standards for the first time for all types of water under its control ( rivers , canals and estuaries ) . |
| 14 | But you know the old saying , there 's always a first time for everything . ’ |
| 15 | He never came to the hotel drunk and for the first time for years worked almost to a routine . |
| 16 | He managed to stay off alcohol because for the first time for a very long time he was truly afraid . |
| 17 | The next morning , 21 January , the tent was wet with dew , the first time for weeks . |
| 18 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 19 | I could n't believe it at first that the problem was so simple ; in fact I walked out of that lesson without any pain at all … the first time for twenty months . |
| 20 | For the first time for a long while , Corbett felt wanted and warmed to these simple yet sophisticated men so bound up in their own routine of prayer , work and study that they regarded any visitor as a visible sign of God 's grace . |
| 21 | Presumably few people said ‘ No ’ to him , Well , Kelly reflected as she dialled the Templemans ' number angrily , there was a first time for everything . |
| 22 | When John Smith takes over , it will be the first time for 12 years that the right wing has openly held Labour 's leadership . |
| 23 | He said it took about a month to get all the alcohol out of your system but once you 'd done it , and this was his main point , you suddenly realise that , for the first time for years , you can see the world like it really is . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ First time for London ? ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | There was a certain rapprochement though , as Mary came down with her things in the back-pack Rufus had lent her and wearing jeans and a pair of sandals for the first time for days . |
| 27 | As the two hellraisers met for the first time for the benefit of the world 's press , they exchanged jokes . |
| 28 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 29 | Gazza and Maradona square up for the first time for the world 's undisputed No 1 title as Lazio take on Seville in a friendly in Spain . |
| 30 | That 's the first time for a couple of hours . |