Example sentences of "the first time [prep] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Green Party won representation locally for the first time with 14 seats ; and Sinn Féin won seven seats ( 10 in 1985 ) . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 8 | It 's the first time for 11 years they 've reached the final stages . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In particular , the Soviet Union secured ‘ most favoured nation ’ access to the US market for the first time for fifty years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When John Smith takes over , it will be the first time for 12 years that the right wing has openly held Labour 's leadership . |
| 18 | I was abused for the first time at three years old . |
| 19 | According to government figures in December 1989 , for the first time since 1946 Melanesians outnumbered Fijian Indians . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was the first time in fourteen years that he was travelling alone , his best friend having died of pneumonia only weeks before . |
| 22 | With the bursting of the bubble , land prices fell last year for the first time in 17 years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ] . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She had , for the first time in eighteen years , recovered her equilibrium . |
| 28 | Soon red kites , breeding again in Scotland for the first time in 100 years , may be added to their list . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |