Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember who you were this time last year . |
| 2 | The male did not bother her at all after spawning , so I was able to leave her in the Mbuna colony until she was ‘ near term ’ — and all the fry were this time normal — all 120+ of them . |
| 3 | Job vacancies are still 10,000 lower than they were this time last year . |
| 4 | We were this time last year , and we ve got a better squad this time around ( and indeed than that which won the league ) . |
| 5 | Instead , local legislation in various local authority areas imposed such obligations , and there were varying time limits as to flow soon before the date of the proposed procession notice was required . |
| 6 | The provision of home recordings has provided important benefits : the validity of parental observations was objectively determined ; a log of compliance with home recording was obtained ; and there were fewer time constraints on its use . |
| 7 | Another point to bear in mind is that in 1988 only 35 per cent of the 400,000 new jobs created were full time : 34 per cent were part time and 31 per cent were in self employment . |
| 8 | All of these students were full time or sandwich undergraduates aiming for a first degree and enrolled on a course of three or more years duration . |
| 9 | Did you do that before you were full time ? |
| 10 | integrating cos squared just to get to that stage they had thousands of years they were full time professionals did nothing else but it . |
| 11 | He says , Well you never managed it when you were full time anyway . . |
| 12 | The analyst noted that , since these were first time pregnancies , the increase in complications with age could not be attributed to parity . |
| 13 | The boys were big time , but we had to have the sound system , the lighting , the stage — everything had to move at the pace of David 's imagination . |
| 14 | You seem quite tired and nervy ; not at all the way you were last time : very trim and self-contained . |
| 15 | Is there anything to make you believe that Poll Tax bills landing on people 's mats this time next year will be any nearer the estimate than they were last time . |
| 16 | ‘ So it was do-it-yourself time , ’ says bill , ‘ and , with the help of my father , we did just that . |
| 17 | Books were few , but there was ample time to write ; as Coleridge , proficient in German after two months , put it : ‘ He seems to have employed more time in writing English than in studying German . ’ |
| 18 | It was a Michaelmas Day or at least the old erm Quarter Day for paying rents and erm it was generally known in those days as muck spreading because erm it was usual time for erm , the farm workers to get ready for the winter ploughing . |
| 19 | Franchises were re-allocated by competition in 1964 , 1967 and 1981 , and although there was each time a public invitation and a grand interview , the procedure involved a good deal of preliminary contact and discussion , not least about such important but apparently secondary factors as studio locations and offices . |
| 20 | He applied four times for permanent posts in Cambridge , but was each time unsuccessful ; it was feared that he would alarm and discourage his pupils , particularly the weaker sort . |
| 21 | Small wonder that there was little time or taste for theorizing about ideal forms of secondary education . |
| 22 | It may seem harsh to criticize the Labour government for its inner-urban Policy at the end of the 1970s — there was little time for the introduction of a comprehensive programme of action towards the cities before the political realities of the 1979 election . |
| 23 | There was little time for dalliance when we came out from Sunday School as I was expected to be home for tea at half-past four . |
| 24 | The pupils all began looking round at each other and Mildred knew there was little time before someone recognized her . |
| 25 | There was little time to stand admiring the view of this or that season when there was a big farm to run and a house and family to be looked after . |
| 26 | There was little time to reflect on the implications as Prince Charles had already asked her to Balmoral for the weekend of the Braemar Games early in September . |
| 27 | It was a miserable moment but there was little time to reflect on the tragedy . |
| 28 | The imperial preference aspect was important because it might arrest the trends pulling the Empire apart ; reciprocity had shown the danger and there was little time left to halt the slide . |
| 29 | There was little time left before his meeting with Merymose , so he did not return to his house , but took a circuitous route which would bring him to their rendezvous at the moment the sun touched the top of the western cliffs . |
| 30 | After the fall of France in June 1940 there was little time to think about the shape of the post-war world . |