Example sentences of "[num ord] time because of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 2 | Hard work by the ground staff enabled play to begin on Friday afternoon , whereupon Richards , leading West Indies for the first time because of Lloyd 's injury , gleefully put England in . |
| 3 | The Great War also caused the appointment , for the first time because of the absence of men in the Forces , of lady teachers to the staff . |
| 4 | Some black children may have had their first experience of Jamaican Creole from reggae lyrics , while others may have been attracted to Creole for the first time because of the music . |
| 5 | But I feel it incumbent upon me ( I have been listening to chairmen 's speeches ) to bring up the subject for one last time because of a letter from a reader in Nigeria . |