Example sentences of "[num] for the [num ord] time since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government troops had been landed on the north coast of Bougainville in April 1991 for the first time since being forced to withdrew from the territory in 1990 . |
| 2 | On March 22nd the market reacted by falling a further 3.1% , which took the Nikkei index below 30,000 for the first time since December 1988 to close at 29,843 . |
| 3 | Earlier , there had been fighting at Mannar on Aug. 1 as the LTTE attacked an advancing troop convoy ; naval artillery was used against rebel positions on Aug. 3 for the first time since the resumption of large-scale fighting on June 11 ; and a major clash took place on Aug. 4-5 , involving the repulsing of an unsuccessful rebel attack against the Jaffna fort . |
| 4 | Britain 's current-account deficit shrank to £192m ( $377m ) in February ; the 12-month visible-trade deficit fell below $30 billion for the first time since mid-1988 . |
| 5 | Tokyo touched 26000 for the first time since last August . |
| 6 | Membership would entail the release of detailed information on the Soviet economy , and observers saw the publication of Gosbank ( Soviet State Bank ) accounts on July 16 for the first time since 1936 as the beginnings of this . |
| 7 | Liverpool 's defeat , which threatens to prevent them finishing in the top five for the first time since their initial season back in the First Division 30 years ago , was again due to the unpredictable goalkeeping of Grobbelaar . |
| 8 | The UN Security Council had reconvened on Feb. 13 for the first time since the outbreak of hostilities to review the progress of the conflict . |
| 9 | Iraqi authorities lifted the night-time curfew on Nov. 23 for the first time since the Aug. 2 invasion [ see pp. 37632-35 ] . |
| 10 | King Fahd of Saudi Arabia visited Kuwait on June 9 for the first time since the end of the Gulf war . |
| 11 | A one-point rise in Japan 's discount rate pushed Tokyo below 31,000 for the first time since January 1989 ; during the week it lost 5.6% . |
| 12 | Foreign Ministers from 34 countries participating in the Conference on Security and Co-Operation in Europe ( CSCE ) met in Berlin on June 19-20 for the first time since the adoption in November 1990 of the Charter of Paris [ see p. 37838 ] . |
| 13 | Tokyo rose above 21,000 for the first time since March last year , but it finished the week only 0.1% up . |
| 14 | The survey predicted that France would have lower inflation and higher growth than the OECD average in 1990 for the first time since 1970 , with retail price inflation expected to be 2.9 per cent and growth estimated at 3.1 per cent in 1990 . |