Example sentences of "the first time for [num] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When John Smith takes over , it will be the first time for 12 years that the right wing has openly held Labour 's leadership . |