Example sentences of "the first time since [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marco van Basten , the European Footballer of the Year , gave European champions Milan a timely boost by returning to the squad for training this week for the first time since a cartilage operation on 1 September . |
| 2 | On Oct. 13 the National Bank of Ethiopia — the central bank — raised interest rates ; the government at the same time raised government workers ' wages , for the first time since the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 , by up to 110 per cent . |
| 3 | Since the 1949 service , when Latin was heard in the Church for probably the first time since the Reformation , the Founder 's Psalm ( no. 130 ) has been chanted : |
| 4 | In mid-November a United States congressional delegation visited China for the first time since the massacre . |
| 5 | Tom Longland was relieved of his duties as commander of 3 Brigade of the Parachute Regiment , — the first time since the deployment of troops in Northern Ireland in 1969 that such action had been taken . |
| 6 | He looked at her for the first time since the beginning ; her head was still turned away , her hands over her face ; she had shown no further response to anything he had done . |
| 7 | For the first time since the beginning of the Vietnam War , Congress had acted decisively to limit the powers of the President in foreign policy . |
| 8 | She laughed at herself , and at the extravagance of these thoughts , but she felt them nonetheless , and was , for the first time since the beginning of it all , truly lighthearted . |
| 9 | According to Israel Radio , this was " the first time since the beginning of the intifada that terrorists have managed to plant bombs in a Jewish place , wounding civilians and soldiers " . |
| 10 | It was Forest 's fifth win in seven league games and lifted them above Middlesbrough and out of the relegation zone for the first time since the beginning of September . |
| 11 | What with Mrs Clements and the girls also gone for the week , I suppose I was very conscious of the fact that once I departed , Darlington Hall would stand empty for probably the first time this century — perhaps for the first time since the day it was built . |
| 12 | At the funeral Judith comes to terms with grief for the first time since the birth . |
| 13 | Sean Dodds , for Kelly , said he was out with his girlfriend for the first time since the birth of their baby . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His remarks , in a Daily Telegraph interview , triggered protests from right-wing Tory MPs and pitched the Cabinet into more controversy as it met for the first time since the summer break . |
| 16 | His remarks , in a Daily Telegraph interview , triggered protests from right-wing Tory MPs and pitched the Cabinet into more controversy as it met for the first time since the summer break . |
| 17 | What the Saxon invasion did primarily was to reorganise most of Sussex as a distinct political unit , firmly independent for the first time since the Regni . |
| 18 | Digital technology has introduced ( or perhaps I should say that it has reintroduced , for the first time since the establishment and dominance of printing ) the unstable , or infinitely variable , text . |
| 19 | Later , months later when I was taken into town for the first time since The Bomber , I wanted to put some flowers on her grave . |
| 20 | For the first time since the end of the Falklands war there was , also , a less than total confidence among ministers in the certainty of the coming victory at the polls . |
| 21 | For the first time since the end of censorship , the Polish press ( long plagued by communist traditions of slanted reporting ) conducted a public argument neutrally and eloquently . |
| 22 | It is the first time since the end of the second world war that the Japanese navy has ventured overseas . |
| 23 | Yesterday the region — once the engine room of the late Eighties boom — saw its jobless total top 10 per cent for the first time since the end of the Second World War . |
| 24 | King Fahd of Saudi Arabia visited Kuwait on June 9 for the first time since the end of the Gulf war . |
| 25 | The move came four months after the Diet had approved a law permitting Japanese forces to serve overseas for the first time since the end of the Pacific War [ see pp. 38962-63 ] , and followed a request from UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali . |
| 26 | On July 6 the leaders of all the main parties in Northern Ireland met with Irish government ministers for the first time since the partition of the island in 1922 . |
| 27 | For the first time since the outbreak of war , the Revolution had brought to power a Government prepared to break ranks with the Allied stance of no peace without victory . |
| 28 | The Communist Youth League magazine , Zhongguo Qingnian , was published for the first time since the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution in September 1978 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | On March 28 such flights were resumed for the first time since the outbreak of war in the Gulf . |