Example sentences of "the first time [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prizemoney was awarded for the first time to competing teams in 1976 . |
| 2 | The principle of ‘ dual control ’ ( by the public authority and by a voluntary body ) was extended for the first time to secondary schools . |
| 3 | The Shanghai stock exchange was reported by the Financial Times of Oct. 23 to have gained approval to offer for the first time to foreign investors shares worth $35,000,000-50,000,000 in the state-owned Shanghai Vacuum , the biggest quoted company on the exchange . |
| 4 | It impelled me to request Eliot , for the first time of more times than I care to remember-as it was a chore which I have been obliged to shoulder often enough myself-to act as a referee . |
| 5 | Alcohol has edged down from 80 to 78 per mille , but leisure services have risen from 32 per mille to 62 , entirely as a result of the inclusion for the first time of foreign holidays , which are now deemed to account for 30 per mille ( 3 per cent ) of the cost of living . |
| 6 | They were not to learn of the German reaction for some nine months , when the commandos again visited the Lofoten Islands , but the world heard for the first time of British commandos that night in German broadcasts : ‘ Light naval forces destroyed several fishing boats and landed commandos in the Norwegian skerries where they took prisoner some Germans and Norwegians . ’ |
| 7 | The main opposition party , the right-wing Community party ( Atassut ) , lost three seats , leaving it with eight , as some of its support went over to the Centre Party , which entered the legislature for the first time with two seats . |
| 8 | The Green Party won representation locally for the first time with 14 seats ; and Sinn Féin won seven seats ( 10 in 1985 ) . |
| 9 | The conversion into owner-farmers of those who had hitherto been tenants or agricultural labourers provided many for the first time with genuine prospects of making a decent living , unburdened by debts , high rents or heavy taxes . |
| 10 | The SPÖ won 47.7 per cent of the vote and 52 seats ( 54.9 per cent and 62 seats at the last elections in November 1987 — see p. 35792 ) ; the FPÖ won 22.6 per cent and 23 seats ( 9.7 per cent and eight seats in 1987 ) ; the Austrian People 's Party ( ÖVP ) won 18.1 per cent and 18 seats ( 28.4 per cent and 30 seats in 1987 ) ; and the Green Alternatives won over 9 per cent and thus entered the parliament for the first time with seven seats ( having won just under 5 per cent in 1987 ) . |
| 11 | Beating Rangers for the first time in a year ( the first time for two years at home ) did nothing other than give a long suffering Celtic support one night of remission . |
| 12 | ‘ Once you start saving yourselves for big games and ducking out of tackles , you get into the wrong frame of mind and that is very dangerous , ’ warned Howard , who is hoping to steer his side through to the second round of the FA Cup for the first time for 17 years . |
| 13 | ‘ Once you start saving yourselves for big games and ducking out of tackles , you get into the wrong frame of mind and that is very dangerous , ’ warned Howard , who is hoping to steer his side through to the second round of the FA Cup for the first time for 17 years . |
| 14 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 15 | It 's the first time for 11 years they 've reached the final stages . |
| 16 | Financial compensation became available for the first time for criminal injuries ; the community service order raised hopes as an alternative to custody ; and an elaborate system of parole , later greatly expanded , was instituted . |
| 17 | The NRA will introduce legally binding water quality standards for the first time for all types of water under its control ( rivers , canals and estuaries ) . |
| 18 | Development spending was to rise by 21 per cent to taka86,500 million , exceeding the total for recurrent expenditure ( up 8 per cent at taka85,500 million ) for the first time for five years . |
| 19 | Jimmy Carter 's presidency , like that of Gerald Ford , began on an optimistic note with commentators deriving satisfaction from the fact that for the first time for eight years president and Congress would be in the hands of the same party . |
| 20 | This disenfranchising policy will be taken a stage further in the political domain , with the linking for the first time for fifty years of the right to vote with the payment of contributions to local government exchequers . |
| 21 | In particular , the Soviet Union secured ‘ most favoured nation ’ access to the US market for the first time for fifty years . |
| 22 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 23 | For the first time for many years , there is no specific motion supporting the long-standing policy goal of devolution , based on agreement between local parties . |
| 24 | I read them both again erm last year for the first time for many years , and I found Herodotus much the better of the two , because Herodotus was prepared to be curious about everything . |
| 25 | Provincial elections on Aug. 8 in three provinces gave unexpected encouragement to the ruling Peronist party ( Partido Justicialista — PJ ) , which retained control of San Luis and captured San Juan province for the first time for 18 years ; the opposition Radical Party ( UCR ) retained control of Río Negro . |
| 26 | I could n't believe it at first that the problem was so simple ; in fact I walked out of that lesson without any pain at all … the first time for twenty months . |
| 27 | It may also be relevant that the terrorist bombing campaign appeared , for the first time for some years , to be targeting shopping areas directly , as well as widening the net outside London . |
| 28 | In the nadir of the recession in 1981 the strongest brand name was removed from the recruitment advertising pages and became , for the first time for 20 years , an unseen operator . |
| 29 | The 37 participating countries included Taiwan ( competing under the name Taipei:China ) , Vietnam ( for the first time for 20 years ) and Kuwait , but not Iraq , excluded by an emergency meeting of the Olympic Council of Asia on Sept. 20 because of its Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait . |
| 30 | When John Smith takes over , it will be the first time for 12 years that the right wing has openly held Labour 's leadership . |