Example sentences of "[art] first time [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does n't , if you like , make sense and the key year , as I say , is nineteen seventy eight because that was the first time that spending on overseas holidays exceeded the spending on U K holidays . |
| 2 | It 's the first time that protection against meningitis has been offered as a routine childhood immunisation , as Jessica Fowle reports |
| 3 | Lying there she was aware for the first time that night of Maggie above her and Rachel below her ; both , she imagined , sleeping sweetly , and again the grinding weight of compassion and guilt swept over her . |
| 4 | Others who had coped well enough to begin with on those scanty mill wages , who had even picked themselves up and patched things together , the first time that demon of bad trade had halved their weekly pay ; the first time there had been sickness and doctors ' bills to eat up anything they had been able to put by during the good times — never much ; the first time a husband had suffered injury at the mill or the foundry , which meant no weekly pay-packet at all . |
| 5 | The samples were subjected to sophisticated analytical techniques at the Research and Engineering Centre , Sunbury — probably the first time that rock from the region has been analysed in the West , said Dave . |
| 6 | ‘ This is the first time this kind of survey has been done . |
| 7 | He admits to being nervous because it was the first time this kind of operation was carried out . |
| 8 | Rowledge First School is usually used as the polling station for Bucks Horn Oak voters , but the venue was changed for the first time this year to the Forestry Commission 's offices in Christmas Tree Yard . |
| 9 | The leadership wants to see the proportion of union voting strength at party conferences reduced from the current 70 per cent — down for the first time this year from the traditional 90 per cent — to an eventual 50 per cent . |
| 10 | Aid workers say Central Bosnia , cut off for the first time this Winter by the war between Croats and Muslims , is facing a humanitarian catastrophe . |
| 11 | STATE school exam results tables will be made public for the first time this week in the biggest Government publishing exercise since ration books . |
| 12 | ‘ It is the first time this sort of thing has happened at our Omagh garage but unfortunately people in the motor trade are all too familiar with this kind of theft , ’ said Mr Sloan . |
| 13 | Pickering have their wicket keeper Richard Gray available for the first time this season on recovering from a hand injury for the visit of Scarborough in the EYC while Whitby are unchanged for the visit of York in the same competition . |
| 14 | Manchester United skipper Bryan Robson starts a Premier League game for the first time this season at Aston Villa tomorrow . |
| 15 | Byas , opening for the first time this season in any competition , hit his first century in one day cricket as Yorkshire cruised to a nine-wicket win over Derbyshire with 39 balls to spare . |