~ぶり (after an interval of)

Thaksin, the former Thai prime minister who was ousted in the September 2006 military coup and had been in de facto exile, returned to Thailand on the 28th, roughly a year and a half after leaving.

This is my first proper vacation in three years.

I had been looking forward to the day I could see him again for the first time in five years.

We had a class reunion for the first time in 30 years.

I saw him last week for the first time in a while.

Beautiful weather for the first time in a while, isn't it.