Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNEMPLOYMENT in Britain has fallen for the first time in almost three years . |
| 2 | But if the average size of a household has fallen at the same time ( this has happened in the UK ) then the income of each person in a household may have risen . |
| 3 | In a wide ranging and at times overtly anti-communist speech , described by the Guardian of March 30 as " more measured and specific than any he has given for a long time " , Yeltsin pilloried central government policy , labelling perestroika the " last phase of the stagnation period " . |
| 4 | Two months after the military crackdown in Beijing in June 1989 , it was announced that university student intake would be cut from 640,000 to 610,000 in the next academic year , and that " specialities mainly in the social science fields which the State has deemed for a long time to have turned out personnel not qualified for socialist construction " would be suspended . |
| 5 | CAR crime on Merseyside has dropped for the first time in three years but the rate is still one offence every 20 minutes . |
| 6 | CAR crime on Merseyside has dropped for the first time in three years but there is still one offence every 20 minutes . |
| 7 | Creaney , who now forms a new strike partnership with Andy Payton , and has nudged his boyhood idol Charlie Nicholas into reserve football , feels the Cologne tie has come at the right time . |
| 8 | ‘ This validation from the Prime Minister has come at an important time for the industry as it strives to get up off its knees , ’ said Keith Banbury , Chief Executive . |
| 9 | One society which has featured for the first time in this year 's results is the Standard building society . |
| 10 | My mum has a passion fruit plant and it has grown for the first time . |
| 11 | Nobody stops learning , but at only 15st I 'm the fastest heavyweight the world has seen in a long time . ’ |
| 12 | The Chinese government has said for the first time that it intends to try to stop the tiger trade . |
| 13 | Material collected in south-east Ecuador has revealed for the first time Triassic marine sediments with bivalves , as well as Jurassic microfloras and Cretaceous macrofaunas . |
| 14 | An S-A-S officer who led a mission to prevent the Gulf conflict spreading throughout the Middle East has revealed for the first time what happened behind enemy lines . |
| 15 | Palace striker Chris Armstrong has confessed for the first time that manager Steve Coppell took a huge gamble signing him . |
| 16 | FIFTIES star Connie Francis has confessed for the first time that she does not like her biggest hits . |
| 17 | Its psychogenic origin was reaffirmed with the descriptions of Ryle , Sheldon , Berkman , and Venables in the 1930s , a point of view that has predominated to the present time . |
| 18 | Any object that an individual has had for a long time , a favourite book for example , has already been affected by that individual 's electrical impulses . |
| 19 | If a neutral event has occurred within a certain time of an already important event , if it was of a certain category and if another of the same category had not been interposed between it and the important event , then that event itself acquires significance for the animal . |
| 20 | ‘ Jason Donovan has known for a long time that The Face is not rich , and we have repeatedly offered to apologise unreservedly for the article , ’ the statement added . |
| 21 | ‘ Jason Donovan has known for a long time that The Face is not rich , and we have repeatedly offered to apologise unreservedly for the article , ’ the statement added . |
| 22 | The art ( therapy ? ) of Reflexology is founded on the principle that massaging the feet can affect the health of other parts of the body , a fact which acupuncture has known for a long time . |
| 23 | But Newton , known in the dressing room as ‘ Isaac ’ , still has to pinch himself to be sure he really has arrived in the big time . |
| 24 | An analysis of soil samples from a Kurdish village has proved for the first time that in 1988 Iraqi armed forces used nerve gas as well as mustard gas in air raids against civilians . |
| 25 | BEVERLY Hills 90210 heart-throb Luke Perry has spoken for the first time of his nightmare childhood with a drunken father who beat up his mother . |
| 26 | Sheila Silcock has spoken for the first time about her anger when her son Ben was banned from a MIND drop-in centre in Roehampton , south-west London . |
| 27 | Moreover , the P cepacia problem has emerged at the same time as social networks have developed between adult patients with CF , and their families ; many individuals have derived great mutual benefit from these contacts , which provide for most of their social activity . |
| 28 | England marksman David Hirst has trained for the first time in five weeks after recovering from a cracked ankle , and is desperate to link up with Chris Waddle . |
| 29 | The Paraguayans , says Obdulio Menghi of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) , " are working like never before , because of the professional and political [ commitment ] that the country has assumed for the first time . " |
| 30 | Under headlines such as ‘ Fiend 's third victim ’ ( Daily Mirror ) and ‘ Terror of tape bondage rapist ’ ( Sun ) , it was noted how ‘ a sticky-tape sex-fiend has struck for the third time ’ bringing ‘ terror to a triangle of Hampshire towns ’ . |