Example sentences of "first time some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first part of the walk kicks off up a private road gliding beneath a fabulous railway viaduct , the very one from which I had gazed in my bike-less train down the length of Loch Shiel for the first time some ten years earlier . |
| 2 | A police constable caused great concern with his assertions , made for the first time some years ago , that some Kent police officers were offering inducements to prisoners to make false admissions to offences , and to confess to crimes that they had not committed , so that the force could then add to the number of crimes they had ‘ detected ’ , and thereby improve their crime clear-up statistics . |
| 3 | But the question had been unwelcome and for the first time some of his cockiness seemed to have drained from him . |
| 4 | Since the beginning of the year new shops have opened up in central Belfast and for the first time some are doing well selling avant-garde men 's and women 's clothes . |
| 5 | In thus questioning whether poverty should be defined as existence in conditions below the barest subsistence minimum , or whether a higher minimum standard should be established in the interests of humanity and of aiming for high national standards of comfort and efficiency , Bowley and his colleagues raised for the first time some of the problems concerning the definition of poverty , which have remained at issue ever since . |
| 6 | This also gave the general public for the first time some information , though in a summary and superficial way , about the men who carried out their country 's foreign policy . |