Example sentences of "first time the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This was not the first time the UDR lieutenant colonel has faced danger .
2 It was the first time the monarch had ever used a Thames passenger ferry — and one of the few occasions when she had arrived at an official engagement by public transport in the UK .
3 It was the first time the company has been prosecuted for a hygiene offence .
4 Particularly satisfying has been the successful assault on the German market where for the first time the company has secured orders for filament-wound rollers .
5 And Amelia McLean , a compositor who played a leading role in the women 's opposition in 1910 , said in a letter to the Evening News : " This is the first time the women have heard that the employers want to reserve monotypes for women .
6 For the first time the problem of synthesising diamonds could now be expressed in terms of the ways the atoms were arranged and rearranged ( Figure 2 ) .
7 It is the first time the Service has explained its stand in the dispute , which led to serious disturbances among loyalist inmates in the Maze .
8 It 's the first time the Rectory Farm at Stanton St John has been hit by strawberry rustlers .
9 It 's the first time the diaries , film scripts and private photographs of the 1950's star who was born in Swindon have been seen by the public .
10 For the first time the survey , which covered 1,160,000 sq km ( i.e. two-thirds of the entire forest area in Europe ) included data on forest damage in the western part of the Soviet Union ( i.e. Byelorussia , the Kaliningrad region and Ukraine ) in addition to Estonia and Lithuania which had been included in earlier years .
11 For the first time the Bill gives galleries powers of disposal , subject to certain conditions — or rather it gives such powers to the Tate and the national portrait gallery , but not to the Wallace collection or the national gallery .
12 This was the initial running of the world 's oldest Classic under commercial sponsorship , and for the first time the winner 's prize money topped £100,000 .
13 For the first time the laughter was extinguished from the little face so like Jack 's , and in its place was resignation and courage , and a wisdom far beyond his years .
14 Note also that the priority field defaults to Routine , if this is the first time the DC has been updated .
15 So for , for the first time the revolution is given an economic goal in that it is to set up industrialization and in a sense the ending of feudalism and the creation of industrialization emerge as , as the two forces whereas up until now it has been feudalism perhaps egalitarianism .
16 We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up .
17 Last night 100 families were being housed in bed and breakfast accommodation the first time the total has reached three figures .
18 For the first time the treaty formally recognized the rights of the 500,000-strong German minority in Poland to their own language , culture , family names and religion .
19 The Jerusalem Post of Dec. 29 pointed out that for first time the USA had backed a resolution in the Council ( as opposed to the General Assembly ) which referred to " all the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967 , including Jerusalem " .
20 Concluding a three-day visit to Vietnam on Feb. 1 , the US presidential envoy , Gen. John Vessey , announced that for the first time the USA was to provide assistance to typhoon victims .
21 Robyn could smell the freshness of his cologne , see the way his eyes crinkled at the corners , notice for the first time the thickness of his lashes , the way his ebony hair would curl if allowed to grow long .
22 Saturday 's 1–1 draw at Beacon Lough Baptists was the first time the Gateshead side has dropped points this season .
23 She smiled warmly , and not for the first time the girl thought how incredibly lovely her mistress was .
24 For the first time the girl seemed to lose her self-possession .
25 This is not the first time the issue of control has come up in this column but because yours is a sign that tends to resist going with the flow , all too often you meet people and circumstances that appear to block your path .
26 Through it , government addressed for the first time the issue of the long-stay population in all the institutions for elderly , mentally handicapped and mentally ill people .
27 For the first time the exercise will involve the whole of higher education — some 150 universities , polytechnics and colleges of further education which will come under the new Higher Education Funding Councils .
28 This was the first time the impunity of the police had been challenged in Guatemala .
29 That was the first time the Hound appeared , my sons .
30 ‘ I did wonder , ’ I said , ‘ but it wo n't be the first time the map 's been wrong . ’
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