Example sentences of "the first time [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SCOTLAND took the Amateur Home International Championship for the first time with an 11-7 victory over the Republic of Ireland at Prestatyn yesterday . |
| 2 | Renault showed they had a winner for the first time at the 1979 French Grand Prix when Jean-Pierre Jabouille ( Fra ) was first , with team-mate Rene Arnoux third . |
| 3 | For the first time at the 1987/8 Awards Ceremony , prizes were awarded to National Certificate students . |
| 4 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
| 5 | Those adults in a population of 444971 who developed severe acute renal failure ( serum creatinine concentration >500µmol/l ) for the first time during a two year period , with subsequent fall of the serum creatinine concentration below the index value . |
| 6 | Priests were allowed to vote for the first time since the 1920s , due to the repeal of anti-clerical legislation in January [ see p. 38758 ] . |
| 7 | General Motors and Ford both expect to lose money on car manufacturing this quarter for the first time since the 1982 recession , largely as a result of overcapacity in the market . |
| 8 | The three major US car makers saw their stock prices decline after analysts predicted quarterly losses on their North American businesses for the first time since the 1982 recession . |
| 9 | For the first time since the 1950s the UK is now a net exporter of television sets . |
| 10 | There was also intense debate over nuclear weapons and environmental issues , with the Greens obtaining nearly 6 per cent of the vote and thus entering the Bundestag , the first time since the 1950s that a fourth party had had any electoral success . |
| 11 | More broadly even than that , for the first time since the 1930s finance is taking centre stage in debates about economic policy , industrial competitiveness and even relative political power . |
| 12 | The Palace owns the matching mitre and the two garments are reunited for the first time since the 1930s . |
| 13 | I was taken from the cellar in Beirut and enjoyed the warmth of the sun on my skin for the first time in a thousand days . |
| 14 | In just under two hours time Oxford Prison will close down , leaving the city without a gaol for the first time in a thousand years . |
| 15 | The result was to leave London without an elected representative body for the first time in a hundred years , and all the metropolitan areas without an authority responsible for producing an overall strategic plan . |
| 16 | One of Oxford 's two remaining women-only colleges has tonight decided to admit men for the first time in a hundred years . |
| 17 | He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr . |
| 18 | The result was of particular significance because the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) , which had lost its majority in the Upper House for the first time in the 1989 elections , devoted massive resources to the by-election campaign . |
| 19 | This was the first time in the 47 years of its history that the UN had met at the top level . |
| 20 | Women were granted the vote and given equal citizenship for the first time in the 1950 Constitution . |
| 21 | Only three other deaf men became missioners for the first time in the 1920s , although some moved from one place to another like George Mackenzie . |
| 22 | Betty Rizzo observes that Philip Leapor voted for the first time in the 1749 election for Knight of the Shire , and judges from this that he had used the capital from the subscription to buy his freehold [ Rizzo ] . |
| 23 | In Zambia , the provision of hybrid maize seed , fertiliser and marketing services to small-scale farmers dated from the mid 1960s ; in Kenya the provision of such services was extended for the first time in the 1960s well beyond the Kikuyu . |
| 24 | None the less , women married for the first time in the 1930s actually had family sizes only just below replacement rate . |
| 25 | The only new Mission for the deaf that seems to have opened for the first time in the 1890s was that at Oxford , although the deaf people of Bradford almost lost their own when a fire was discovered in the coal cellar under the offices by one of the deaf members who ran to summon the fire brigade from its nearby station . |
| 26 | The GRC or " Team MPs " were returned for the first time by the 1988 general election to ensure continued minority representation . |