Example sentences of "the first time [prep] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 5 | It 's the first time for 11 years they 've reached the final stages . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In particular , the Soviet Union secured ‘ most favoured nation ’ access to the US market for the first time for fifty years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When John Smith takes over , it will be the first time for 12 years that the right wing has openly held Labour 's leadership . |
| 14 | I was abused for the first time at three years old . |
| 15 | For the first time in fourteen years the peak-hour commuter figures show growth ( a modest half per cent ) but an interview with David Kirby indicated that L&SE had no inkling of what was to come . |
| 16 | It was the first time in fourteen years that he was travelling alone , his best friend having died of pneumonia only weeks before . |
| 17 | With the bursting of the bubble , land prices fell last year for the first time in 17 years . |
| 18 | A week later , Treloar followed up by winning the Rosemary Symonds Cup for the first time in 17 years , so ending Hammer 's domination of this tournament . |
| 19 | THE controversial film Cathy Come Home is to be screened on British television for the first time in 17 years in as attempt to highlight the plight of the homeless . |
| 20 | Pérez on June 13 appointed a military figure as Foreign Minister , for the first time in 34 years of democratic rule , in what was seen as a gesture to the armed forces , where discontent was still high in the aftermath of the abortive military coup of Feb. 4 [ see pp. 38759-60 ] . |
| 21 | Also at North Weald , flying on September 9 for the first time in eighteen years was CM. 170 Magister G–FUGA in the hands of an Irish Air Corps test pilot from Baldonnel . |
| 22 | She had , for the first time in eighteen years , recovered her equilibrium . |
| 23 | Soon red kites , breeding again in Scotland for the first time in 100 years , may be added to their list . |
| 24 | Moreover luck sometimes prevented the family conflicts of the Merovingians from getting out of hand : accident of survival meant that the kingdom was united in 558 , when Chlothar I was left as the only surviving son of Clovis , and was able to unite the regnum Francorum for the first time in forty-seven years . |
| 25 | Since Hick 's elevation to the Test team we 've seen England share the most successful series against West Indies in the last nine , win a series against New Zealand for the first time in four attempts , win a Test match against Pakistan for the first time in 10 years , and , for good measure , reach the World Cup final . |
| 26 | Eventually , on Feb. 23 , a non-Congress ( I ) government was sworn in for the first time in 10 years . |
| 27 | If they were included he would surely return to No.1 for the first time in six years . |
| 28 | I thought things had changed in Sweden when I was able to use the same team in successive games for the first time in six years . |
| 29 | Certainly it is welcome news to report that oral examination entry levels rose by 33 per cent with FLIC overtaking its sister examination , Spoken English for Industry and Commerce ( SEFIC ) , for the first time in six years . |
| 30 | As unemployment climbed above three million for the first time in six years , the latest figures showed our region has been hard hit by the recession . |