Example sentences of "the [num ord] time the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All being well , the skies will part once or twice during the festival — only the second time the event has been out in the open air . |
| 2 | In Guildford I saw for the second time the travelling exhibition ‘ Architecture in Context ’ , staged by the RIBA 's South East Region . |
| 3 | After the second time the coin is still there . |
| 4 | It is only the second time the ITV company has followed the American idea of using a survey to back up launch plans . |
| 5 | This is the second time the college has been involved in a drugs scandal . |
| 6 | It is the second time the policemen have been sentenced for the murder of Nahaman , who died on 4 March 1990 as a result of beatings they inflicted . |
| 7 | The second time the researchers randomised most of the patients and they showed no significant difference in mortality in the home and hospital groups at six weeks . |
| 8 | For the second time the French set out to catch the English . |
| 9 | But the first time she 'd spoken to Colin he 'd told her there was a hi-tech at the manufacturer 's end , and the second time the shop had been closed . |
| 10 | Very shortly the Court of Appeal is to hear for the second time the cases of James Robinson , Michael Hickey and Vincent Hickey , found guilty in November 1979 of the murder in 1978 of Carl Bridgewater , the newspaper boy , in Staffordshire . |
| 11 | Er er but the second time the police came and asked quite a lot of questions about it . |
| 12 | It was the second time the teacher-turned-comic had been hit by car vandals . |
| 13 | One eyewitness described the attack — the second time the Cheshire town has been targeted — as ‘ a cold-blooded massacre ’ . |
| 14 | It 's the second time the Archers have come out of the Radio Four studio . |
| 15 | two minutes behind came the first horse … for only the second time the wheels had won … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is only the second time the Tour de France has visited Britain . |
| 18 | erm only the Emir , and he has to give very erm strict reasons for it and he sends it back to the parliament to look into it again and when it comes back the second time the Emir can pass it . |
| 19 | For the umpteenth time the leopard-skin coat which she wore slung about her shoulders slid to the carpet . |
| 20 | Paul Johnson , the Mail 's ‘ hired gun ’ , was recounting for the umpteenth time the glories of the Thatcher Years . |
| 21 | It is the sixth time the Bobby Charlton sports skills contest has come to the North for heats for the national competition . |
| 22 | He must be more patient and brace himself up to realise that he was the only person who could tackle the present chaotic state of affairs , ' This was the fourth time the King had told MacDonald that he would not accept his resignation . |
| 23 | Simple folk might likewise reflect that this is the fourth time the Conservatives have carried the day in elections in the teeth of alleged BBC bias . |
| 24 | This will be the fourth time the World Cup has opened at the Utah resort , the third time for women . |
| 25 | As the curtain came down for the fourth time the ‘ helpers ’ all gave a huge sigh and reverted back to responsible adults ! |
| 26 | It 's the fourth time the Northampton Racecourse Park has hosted the event . |
| 27 | This was the first time the phrase Scenic Land Cruise had been used by a train operator — but it certainly was not the last . |
| 28 | It was possibly the first time the BBC had had to take other equipment out of service because someone ( Voigt ) complained of its bad performance , which had shown up on this speaker . |
| 29 | The same phrase had been translated and mordantly placed by Dante in Canto XXX of the Purgatorio ; and so , when Hardy in these poems confronts the shade of his recently deceased and estranged wife Emma , not only does Aeneas in Aeneid 6 confront the reproachfully haughty ghost of Dido , but Dante 's pilgrim confronts for the first time the shade or apparition of his lost Beatrice . |
| 30 | It is the first time the inspectorate has taken the board to court for an alleged lapse of safety . |