Example sentences of "the time it " in BNC.
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| 1 | No problem to Lucy , who kept smiling through , witty and charming , zipping through three courses of creative cuisine into a smart frock and an atomised squirt of Coty L'Amant in the time it took Martin and ‘ the gang ’ to get home . |
| 2 | When we talked it was like two people playing with a ball : sometimes it went into the goal , sometimes it grazed the post , but most of the time it went high in the air and missed completely . |
| 3 | At the time it appeared to be the most plausible perhaps . |
| 4 | It is important though to have corner blocks , and these I make in the time it takes for my tea to go cold . |
| 5 | If anyone spoke , it was usually only to voice condemnation of British Rail for the time it took to get served . |
| 6 | It replaced 1923 stock , which was incidentally only forty-four years old at the time it was moved to the island ! |
| 7 | Sleep is the only cure for such turbulence , but it 's difficult to achieve , and Mick was hardly rested by the time it was his turn to lead in the dampness of the new morning . |
| 8 | The best scheme , by far , is to do what is normally done , ie. , write a bit image file in terms of the resolution available at the time it is created . |
| 9 | Such a bit image blocks are not normally compressed , and anyone using graphics in a document is familiar with the time it takes to load the printer . |
| 10 | Whatever the answer , do not fall into the trap of imagining that the impact of a flood in one of this year 's drought-ridden rivers will pass as quickly as the time it takes for the river to ‘ look ’ normal again . |
| 11 | At the time it seemed as if the government had crushed the nationalist movement by locking up its leaders for life . |
| 12 | At the time it was an embryonic sabotage unit . |
| 13 | The definition of a second has since officially been the time it takes a cesium atom to make 9,192,631,770 vibrations . |
| 14 | He thought the transition period had always been too long , because authority deserts a dying king , and neither China nor the Hong Kong people were going to take much notice of us by the time it got to the Nineties . |
| 15 | But then I thought this might not be understood by many people , and also , by the time it got to the Augean Bulls and the Birds of Stymphalus , it would be a little recondite for people like Terry Coleman . ’ |
| 16 | We had wagers on how many times the horse 's prick bounced back and forth in the time it took to cross the Parade . |
| 17 | The decision top management took has been vindicated , but there was some criticism , particularly from City analysts , at the time it was taken . |
| 18 | At the time it was revolutionary approach . |
| 19 | I thought at the time it was a crazy thing to agree to and early events seemed to confirm this . |
| 20 | The snow is much worse as I finally move out , and the only consolation for the time it has taken is being alone , and arriving late so that the others have already begun on the tent and wood collecting . |
| 21 | Most of the time it failed to make it out of the pit lane . |
| 22 | At the time it was not available in the UK , and its critical acclaim came mainly from Continental motoring journalists . |
| 23 | Because the Moon revolves around the Earth , the lunar day — the time it takes for the Moon to appear at equal heights above the horizon on successive occasions — is longer than 24 hours . |
| 24 | The building was in use for its original purpose until the early 1960s , but by the time it was acquired for conversion into dwellings in 1977 , it had lain empty for more than ten years and was decaying rapidly because the upper floors and roof covering of the mill had been destroyed in a fire . |
| 25 | By the time it came out , in any case , all their lives had been irrevocably altered by the progress of world events . |
| 26 | He can laugh about it now , and has referred to it in many speeches since to very good effect ; but at the time it hurt . |
| 27 | By the time it was eventually closed in 1988 , new investors had brought the total to £116 million . |
| 28 | At the time it appalled the traditionalists ; now it is winning them round with its logical elegance , nostalgic glamour and atmosphere of cocktails on a Cunard liner . |
| 29 | It was very short-lived but at the time it was a bit of a shock . |
| 30 | Its Military Committee , which the victors of 1945 had once hoped ( for little more than the time it takes to shake hands ) would in future enforce peace at the head of a world army , remained a jobless phantom . |