Example sentences of "[conj] it is the [num ord] time " in BNC.

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1 He says that it is the first time the Japanese governent has expressed interest in the IASC 's work .
2 Yesterday 's bombs are thought to have been Semtex and it is the first time outside the capital that devices have been casually placed by the road side .
3 Lord Aldington replied : ‘ This will be the hundredth time you say what I 've said is a lie , and it is the hundredth time you have made me very angry . ’
4 When you meet somebody , especially if it is the first time of meeting , your senses are working flat out to process all the data .
5 Inevitably there is a certain amount of routine in everyone 's life and the person who lives alone also needs to establish some routine , no matter how tempting it may be to lead an unfettered existence , particularly if it is the first time you have lived on your own .
6 Thus , if it is the first time someone tells you a particular genre of joke , you may not know the appropriate type of response .
7 That is pretty obvious , but it is the first time the Najibullah government has said so .
8 But it is the first time that we have seen such a phenomenon on a large scale .
9 But it is the first time we have established formal procedures which ensure that we deliver and measure against set and agreed criteria .
10 Later , Fiat issued a statement saying it had learned of the arrests ‘ with great astonishment ’ but it is the second time the company has been involved in the ongoing scandal .
11 While this as such simply acknowledges the situation as it is and is followed by a far longer passage relating to the benefits of celibacy for the Western rite , it remains a highly important text because it is the first time a Roman Council or any major Roman document has explicitly accepted and recommended the uniting of priesthood and marriage in a single life .
12 Dr William Fore , former WACC President and now Visiting Lecturer in Communication at the School , said in a recent letter to delegates : ‘ The meeting promises to be a landmark , since it is the first time that teachers of communication in seminaries and schools of theology will have come together to consider their distinctive task in theological education . ’
13 This enterprising tour should be well worth following as it is the first time cricketers of this age from South Africa have toured in England .
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