Example sentences of "the first time [prep] [num] " 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 | Drink up : Euro Disney has begun to serve alcohol for the first time at four of its restaurants as it seeks to stem heavy losses from weak attendance . |
| 19 | Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 . |
| 20 | Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 . |
| 21 | I was abused for the first time at three years old . |
| 22 | Proudly proclaiming that this recording contains for the first time on one CD all of Bach 's Toccatas and Fugues ( including the Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV548 ) , it is indeed a well-stocked programme . |
| 23 | The prototype , F-WLKB , flew for the first time on 4 May 63 with Pratt and Whitney JT-12A-8 engines of 3,000 lbs thrust . |
| 24 | It was The Association of Women Artists and Friends of Art in Berlin , an association of women artists , who banded together for the first time on 13 January , 1867 , to overcome some of the structural obstacles to women artists . |
| 25 | Under contract from the Business Jets Division of Pan Am , Little Rock Airmotive in Arkansas converted a Standard Falcon into a specialised cargo aircraft , the prototype flying for the first time on 28 Mar 72 . |
| 26 | The Secret Committee on the Peasant Question , which convened for the first time on 3 January 1857 , consisted entirely of Nicholaevan grandees . |
| 27 | It met for the first time on 25 February 1986 and includes representatives from the Departments of Transport , Environment , Employment , and Trade and Industry ; Kent County Council ; the district councils of ; elected members of Kent local authorities and Parliamentary constituencies ; Eurotunnel ; Transmanche Link ; and British Rail . |
| 28 | It is perhaps surprising to find that Jacques married for the first time on 31 March 1728 at the age of 55 . |
| 29 | Read the first time on 12 February 1844 , his creditors and debtors bill was read a second time on 30 April . |
| 30 | The infantry went to church in their new uniforms for the first time on 9 September , and had the singular honour , a month later , of joining their fellows in the cavalry who were escorting the funeral cortège of the late Earl of Cork ‘ in slow and decorous movement suitable to the solemnity of the occasion ’ . |