Example sentences of "time in [det] " in BNC.

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1 For the first time in all these barren weeks , she wrote poem after poem , cursed that Interflora was n't a 24-hour service and swore never to doubt again .
2 For the first time in all my life I had done right because I wanted to do right .
3 For the first time in all his journeys he found a room that was completely empty , but he had n't the time to investigate it , or any of the others he entered .
4 For the first time in all his years in Paris , his future and Jeanne 's seemed assured .
5 It must be remembered , too , that plants which contain medicinally active substances often do not contain them all the time in all their parts .
6 Perhaps a little critical of his friends , he was a reasonable man of his time in all respects other than his ‘ passion for his Art ’ .
7 We spend time in all of them , depending on the season and on where we feel like being . ’
8 Sailing Representatives are on the spot all the time in all resorts .
9 It 's the first time in all my life I 've been able to see the back of my nails from the palms of my hands . ’
10 Thus the more nearly perfect a market is , the stronger is the tendency for the same price to be paid for the same thing at the same time in all parts of the market : but of course if the market is large , allowance must be made for the expense of delivering the goods to different purchasers ; each of whom must be supposed to pay in addition to the market price a special charge on account of delivery .
11 But seriously , vacancies will arise from time to time in all areas within the company .
12 The rate of complete clearance increased with time in all groups of patients .
13 This paper then looks at the characteristics of the people who spent some or all of their time in such homes and at the care they got from general practitioners , community nurses and hospitals .
14 Few under 75 had spent any time in such homes but more than half those dying when they were aged 85 or more had spent at least some of the last year of their lives in one .
15 Only one symptom , a persistent cough , was reported more often for those who had not been in a residential home — 24 per cent compared with 10 per cent of those who had spent some time in such a home .
16 This was similar to the proportion receiving help from district and other nurses among those who had not spent any time in such homes once sudden deaths and those who had spent all their last year in hospital have been excluded .
17 It is sensible to charge a notional salary for equity partners ' time in such systems .
18 I would imagine that rear passengers would be quite happy for several hours at a time in such an environment .
19 ‘ It is astounding that he was up there for all that time in such a busy area without anyone noticing , ’ said Det Insp Martyn Evans .
20 A middle-aged building worker who arrived at the palace — his first time in such a place — after his marriage had broken up , said , " I was a little bit disgusted , they do n't treat you as if you were just unemployed , they treat you like a person who has just crawled out of the gutter . "
21 If 14 days be a reasonable length of time in such a contract in this particular trade , and if he waits seven days before entrusting the goods to a third person on sale or return , that third person has the right to keep them as against him for 14 days , whereas the original owner has a right to the return of them within seven days from that date and I think that is clearly an act inconsistent with anything but his having adopted the transaction . ’
22 For the first time in such talks the Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) , which in previous weeks had been losing ground to government forces throughout southern Sudan , was represented by two independent delegations : the so-called Torit group led by Col. John Garang , and a splinter group supporting Lam Akol , based at the town of Nasir [ for SPLA split see p. 38426 ] .
23 Heads can create their own clarity if they organize their time in such a way as to digest and weigh reports , views and experiences from sources either outside the school or inside the staffroom .
24 Monica Shorten : ‘ My only regret is that the rival claims of the science departments and university clubs and social life distracted me from taking full advantage of my time in such an interesting community . ’
25 I would be alarmed if my son was spending his time in such groups . ’
26 For as a girl , she herself had been taken through the world , as through a series of doors , by her young husband , each door opening on to fresh joys and colours and perspectives , and she had exclaimed in delight , followed him , learned , and even afterwards , when the final door had shut , she could retrace her steps , spend a longer and longer time in each place , as in a series of gardens , and gratefully .
27 But some in-laws do manage to get along remarkably well together , even when they have to spend a great deal of time in each other 's company .
28 There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum .
29 Could new staff spend time in each department to find out how the CIB really works ?
30 Find some t , time in each day when you are idle , do n't structure every single part of the twenty four hours , some time when you 're going to sort of be , do nothing .
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