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it’s / this is the first time

 

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have + participe passé

(participe passé actif)

 

This is the first time

anyone has succeeded

in cloning a human embryo

for stem cell extraction.

 

 

ou

 

 

 have + been + participe passé

(participe passé passif)

 

It is the first time

that a teacher has been jailed

for stealing exam papers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

for the first time

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prétérit  /  have + participe passé   présent simple  /  be + -ing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two / three... times + prétérit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -

The Federal Reserve raised U.S. interest rates

for the first time in four years on Wednesday,

boosting them a quarter percentage point

in what likely is the first of several rises

to keep inflation at bay.

    Fed Lifts Rates, Pledges Gradual Course, R, 30.6.2004,
    http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=
    BVVVYCIL0NQSGCRBAE0CFFA?type=businessNews&storyID=5559171

 

 

 

 

 

This is the first time anyone has succeeded

in cloning a human embryo for stem cell extraction.

    Embryo cloning 'breakthrough' for incurable diseases, G, 12.2.2004,
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/genes/article/0,2763,1146614,00.html

 

 

 

 

 

It’s the first time I’ve met him.

Traudction explicative :

C’est la première fois que je le rencontre.

 

 

 

 

 

It is the first time

that a teacher has been jailed for stealing exam papers.

Teacher jailed for stealing GCSE papers, T, p. 4, 14.9.2002.

 

 

 

 

 

It is the first time Mr and Mrs Ritchie

– Madonna says she now likes to be called Mrs Ritchie,

finding it more intimate than her given name –

have made a feature film together.

Guy’s a real macho’, GE2, p. 9, 10.9.2002.

 

 

 

 

 

For the fifth time in four months,

Secretary of State Colin Powell

is dispatching his top Korea specialist to Seoul

for urgent consultations on how to forge a unified policy

to handle North Korea's accelerated steps

to restart its nuclear weapons program.

Bush's Korea worry: It's South, not North, IHT/NYT, p. 1, 2.1.2003.

 

 

 

 

 

« For at least the sixth time this week,

Downing Street have changed their story completely. »

 

 

 

 

 

« For the first time in a long while

I doubted myself and my resolve to go on. »

Article on Naomi Campbell, GE,  p.1, 12.2.2002.

    Traduction explicative :

    Pour la première fois…, j’ai douté de moi-même.

 

 

 

 

 

For the second time this year British tennis found

its expectations were not a match for Swedish reality. 

Sweden’s reality bites Britain, GE,  p. 40, 14.20.2002.

 

 

 

 

 

Three times a group of us returned from the border.

Each time something happened that forced our guide

to take us back.

The third time, 23 of us had started our journey on foot

from Malangam,…

Death is a reality…, GW, p. 3, 14.20.2002.

 

 

 

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