Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh look — that 's all right for time . ’ |
| 2 | A limited number of swords are very individualistic , but shield bosses conform to a relatively limited range of designs which appear to change slowly through time . |
| 3 | Each of these symbols translates happily enough through time to produce an informal heritage , and the sense of past experience working to shape the modern landscape , where barn conversions harbour computer hardware , is unignorable . |
| 4 | It was just that things were getting worse , not better as time passed . |
| 5 | Debt interest can be seen to take a sizeable portion of general government expenditure ( 7.1% ) especially during times of high interest rates . |
| 6 | But today the Church of England apoligised to the family saying ’ our concern must always be for people before regulations , especially during times of greiving . ’ |
| 7 | Slorne turned away and stared out through the top of her cage as if to say , ‘ There , where the skies are , where the great clouds drift and the winds blow endlessly through time , seek there and you will find what Minch needs . ’ |
| 8 | However , many discussions of nationalism assume that the topic remains the same regardless of time and place , so that explanations are equally applicable to all cases . |
| 9 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 10 | Lighting seemed to be at one basic level regardless of time of day or night though was subtly achieved in the final scene . |
| 11 | In all such studies , however ( including this trial ) , the number of patients at risk diminishes appreciably with time so that the confidence of the prediction that there really is a plateau , also diminishes with time . |
| 12 | Although these areal units will alter less with time than administrative units , they are nonetheless transitory and so , ideally , smaller and more permanent units like kilometre grid squares should be used , as they have been by the OPCS in a limited fashion , as the basic building block . |
| 13 | Compound Rates of Change : A measure is used which contains more than two primary measures , possibly together with time ( e.g. the rate of dry weight increase with time ; the variation of this measure itself with time can then be plotted ) . |
| 14 | Sexual need — sexual urge , libido , call it what you will — varies from person to person and , in the individual , varies somewhat from time to time . |
| 15 | The details of its internal structure varied somewhat from time to time , but the main lines remained fairly stable . |
| 16 | You 'll know better in time , Miss . ’ |
| 17 | While some staff felt that this system was successful , others believed it to be unfair , especially in times of contracting resources . |
| 18 | Yet , having done this , it should pay particular attention to the emotions rather than to the ‘ facts ’ , or the rationalizations and justifications we all tend to use in order to shroud our feelings , especially in times of stress . |
| 19 | She was successful , but it was not always enough to be in difficulties to get the union committee 's approval , especially in times of unemployment . |
| 20 | When a community language teacher makes her or himself available to parents , especially in times of crisis , greater support and recognition can be gained , and the traditional mistrust of secondary schools on the part of parents , particularly working class parents can be eroded . |
| 21 | Especially in times of political crisis , the need to delegitimate the form of protest and thus the cause itself may lead the media to slant its coverage towards a version which justifies its own ideological view . |
| 22 | It is all too easy for senior executives , especially in times of great pressure on business , to say that they have no time to devote to such activities for the community . |
| 23 | Now I 've used it elsewhere in the garden and I 've never really had any problem with it except it is inclined to make the water very alkaline because the chippings that are quite often used on a flat roof and they 've got a very high P H and therefore you 've got to be aware that the water that comes off is not likely to be soft it 's more likely to be fair fairly hard but for reasonably tough plants I do n't think I would waste it , especially in times of water shortage . |
| 24 | Scapegoating tends to be a reciprocal matter and , especially in time of resource scarcity , anger and blame for the failure of ‘ the system ’ needs to find a target . |
| 25 | But the orchestra is playing a medley from Fiddler on the Roof , the audience is clapping impatiently in time and , horror or horrors , I can see now there are no stairs — just a long slide circling down to the stage 60 feet away . |
| 26 | insomnia , which is commonly a consequence of addictive disease and which resolves naturally in time as recovery progresses . |
| 27 | Perhaps in time they 'll turn more of their songs into group showcases , as they did on Cash 's Big River , but as the Highwaymen rode into the sunset , they 'd succeeded in that most country of missions : they 'd kept their pride intact , and their boots on . |
| 28 | Not surprisingly in a small fish with an extensive but virtually one-dimensional ( East-West ) range , different populations have developed different colour patterns , and perhaps in time these will become different species altogether . |
| 29 | As Selwyn had been founded to commemorate the great Bishop of Melanesia it seemed appropriate that the college should make Melanesia its special interest and perhaps in time raise enough money to pay one of its own men to go out and serve as priest and educationist in that diocese of so many islands . |
| 30 | Perhaps an article on Sterlets , with pictures , might interest more people and with the increased interest perhaps in time the price will come down to a more realistic level . |