Example sentences of "be [adv] for the first time " in BNC.

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1 But there are twelve fewer non-North American galleries this year , and forty-two dealers nearly twenty-five per cent of the fair are here for the first time .
2 There was evidently no absolute labour shortage , if only because the reserve armies of the rural population ( at home and abroad ) were now for the first time advancing en masse upon the industrial labour markets .
3 ‘ That 's enough for the first time . ’
4 " I was followed today — and it 's not for the first time , either . "
5 They were undoubtedly used by the employers , and the strike was seized as a chance to bring them in — but it should be firmly stated here , since it is usually glossed over , that the damage to the strikers " cause was not for the first time , the result of actions by other men .
6 He was also for the first time vaguely troubled about the DIA 's priorities in the Middle East , particularly with respect to the Western hostages in Beirut .
7 Linford was there for the first time .
8 Jack seemed to realise she was there for the first time .
9 This year , FOX F M was there for the first time and Phil Angel managed to catch Dr John Howard to explain what it all meant .
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