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

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1 When she got home , she felt for the first time in months the need to write a letter , to commit her thoughts and feelings to paper and communicate through the medium of paper and pen with someone .
2 Perdita was in such a good mood that she and Daisy actually had supper together for the first time in months .
3 Towards morning , Peter dreamed the old dream for the first time in months if not years .
4 They made love on the cool marble floor of the terrace , and much later went to bed and slept in each other 's arms for the first time in months .
5 For the first time in months he was smiling .
6 After a while I began , for the first time in months , to sing .
7 And then , of course , only on the day after you took the car to the car wash for the first time in months .
8 For the first time in months the cloud had lifted from his spirits , the tightness in his stomach vanished .
9 For the first time in months she felt very sick again .
10 The exchange between them had been painful , but there was something so honest and open about it that she felt freed for the first time in months from her painful awareness of him as a man .
11 For the first time in months , her hair had been cut and now swung in a pale honey curtain halfway down her back .
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