Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's actually and that 's the most absorbent time , your mind 's most absorbent where you 're up to the age of five which is when you should when you 're at nursery school . |
| 2 | It is presumably that time which is relevant to the comment which I have n't the heart to repeat here where I refers to the current narrator . |
| 3 | I did n't see it properly that time ? you know . |
| 4 | I am extremely sorry , but I have just had a most trying time . ’ |
| 5 | The daily routines of most working class wives left conspicuously little time for leisure . |
| 6 | My dream of a book whose print fades a little each time it is read until the pages are blank . |
| 7 | It was an incredibly rich time for woman artists with the whole area of debate around the body and representation opening up . |
| 8 | I had the most awful time with him . |
| 9 | It must be said , too , that the early and middle 1980s , at least as compared to the late 1980s and the early 1990s , were a remarkably placid time , without the edge brought to American cultural and artistic life by demands for sexual and gender liberation and by AIDS-induced desperation . |
| 10 | The code was written by the Council but its publication has been sponsored additionally by the SCU , Scottish Natural Heritage , and the Scottish Sports Council , who organised the launch at the rather odd time of 11 am on a weekday morning . |
| 11 | Think I played right that time . |
| 12 | Always had a most pleasant time . ’ |
| 13 | There stood the Shah , impeccable as ever in a well-cut grey suit and rather loud time ramrod straight , his face , always , expressionless before the cold white stare of his father . |
| 14 | It is suggested that if the timetable is important ( as for example , a development timetable in a building lease ) the draftsman should provide expressly that time is to be of the essence . |
| 15 | ( b ) The presumption rebutted ( i ) By express words The parties may always provide expressly that time limits are to be of the essence . |
| 16 | The 1,574 kg of gold , found in southern German caves at the end of the war , had since that time been administered by a tripartite commission of France , the UK and the USA . |
| 17 | When the system was tested in the three days leading up to the event , it responded properly each time . |
| 18 | ‘ Brassey 's renaissance comes at a most opportune time , ’ commented Maj.-Gen. |
| 19 | In any case , volunteers are not available in July/August ( holidays ) , and by September the weather is unreliable ; May and June are , realistically , the most opportune time for such projects . |
| 20 | That was particularly true for deciding the most profitable time to fell trees on the 900,000 hectares , more than 700,000 hectares of that in Scotland . |
| 21 | For some reason 17E did not follow until 12 June 1935 and 19E presumably some time in 1937 . |
| 22 | Plants will normally come to bloom earlier in a greenhouse than outside , but in either case the most propitious time for the operation is during a spell , and after a couple of days , of bright sunny weather . |
| 23 | Friend o ’ mine was jumped pretty badly some time back … |
| 24 | The late 1720s , the most brutal time of all with its bad harvests , high prices , and killer epidemics , saw off no fewer than six Titfords within two years ; the period 1766/7 also claimed its victims in the family , as did the winter and spring of 1771 , as we have seen ; and the near-famine year of 1795 , following hard on a winter which was said to herald something resembling a new ice-age , had brought the death of Charles the Cheesemonger 's wife Elizabeth . |
| 25 | Then Jack heard the shuffling , rustling sound again ; it was much louder this time and more urgent . |
| 26 | The rumbling and creaking returned , much louder this time . |
| 27 | I repeated the question , louder this time . |
| 28 | He was only half-way across the room when the sound came again , louder this time . |
| 29 | Fran stiffened , glaring up at him , hating him for his cool self-assurance , but he ignored the look as his hands tightened painfully around her waist in a silent warning not to do anything silly , before he spoke again , louder this time for the benefit of their audience . |
| 30 | The protests will be bigger and louder this time . ’ |