Example sentences of "of time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place , we can not say that the coins recovered from a site , whether by excavation or otherwise , represent a cross-section of coins in use on that site , even though it is generally true that coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand . |
| 2 | Then , from doing the same puzzle a number of times they remember where each piece fits . |
| 3 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
| 4 | A recent survey in West Surrey and North East Hampshire asked district nurses how many clients they had with ulcerated limbs ; the number of times they visited each patient ; and the types of treatment given for a specific month . |
| 5 | They are very gentle and , as the muscles regain their strength , you can increase the number of times they tummy strengthener exercises can be attempted . |
| 6 | ‘ This rise , together with the increase in car tax , will force some disabled people on benefits to seriously limit the number of times they leave the house , ’ she said . |
| 7 | As we listen to these phrases that rolled so easily off the tongue , and which have also rolled on down through history to our own time , we must make a special effort to remember very carefully just who the men were who engineered the Garotter 's Act — what kind of men they were ; what kind of times they lived in ; and what forces helped to shape their upright moral certitude . |
| 8 | The number of times they 'd heard that . |
| 9 | They choose the correct direction with increasing accuracy as the number of trials ( the number of times they have been allowed to run through the maze ) increases . |
| 10 | Dozens of times they 'd gone in single file when they came to the narrow place , made narrow by a growth of gorse . |
| 11 | Both men had pocketed their torches to allow them a better grip on their shotguns , and a couple of times they interrupted their progress to stand straining their ears into the whispering darkness around them for any sound of the fearsome dogs . |
| 12 | The following are grouped in rank order ( a ) to ( d ) according to the number of times they were mentioned |
| 13 | concession to improve communication was to increase the number of times they rang City Office to enquire if ‘ anything was going on : . |
| 14 | Ah lovely I saw saw them live a couple of times they appeared on T V shows as well . |
| 15 | But they can count the number of times they 've been to see Elvis the Musical ; 38 to date and it will be forty by the end of the week . |
| 16 | The closer the number of times we felt cold came to equalling the number of times we felt warm , the more inclined we would be to think of the words ‘ warm ’ and ‘ cold ’ as applying to the sensation only indirectly . |
| 17 | The closer the number of times we felt cold came to equalling the number of times we felt warm , the more inclined we would be to think of the words ‘ warm ’ and ‘ cold ’ as applying to the sensation only indirectly . |
| 18 | ‘ The number of times we 've made it up with her after falling out because of her trouble making , and in no time she 's been at it again . |
| 19 | So we know what sort of times we 're expected to be sort of selling raffle tickets and |
| 20 | And our own lifetime of a few decades is roughly in the middle of the range of times we can imagine . |
| 21 | A couple of times we were attacked by long range German ‘ planes but fortunately on these occasions , they missed us . |
| 22 | This is the kind of thing that we really ought to be addressing because this actually addresses the safety of people in this county , not only the safety of people , this addresses the safety of property as well and there 's no disagreement about the fact that this enormous development that 's happened over the last few years in an area where you 've got a regular traffic snarl-ups mean that you have got a potential disaster there on your hands and we 're jolly lucky we have n't any more serious incidents than we 've had already and so I can see no reason why these two mo these two amendments should n't both happily be accepted though I 'm very cynical about the number of times we 've spent the airport money already and sooner or later we 've obviously got to actually seriously address that but the important thing is that we do all take it seriously and it seems that we all do now take it seriously . |
| 23 | A couple of times we had big branch and stuff . |
| 24 | a couple of times we went up there with er jogging . |
| 25 | And I 'm sure a lot of times he had no idea what was going to come out , but he knew there was going to be some sort of feedback or something , so he 'd just play with it when it came . ’ |
| 26 | If he spoke to a girl a couple of times he would tend to look on her as a girlfriend . |
| 27 | The only sign he ever gave that anything was amiss in his family was the number of times he got out his thumbnail-sized pipe for the comfort of the single puff it gave him . |
| 28 | I remember wickedly making a note at one assembly of the number of times he spoke and believe it or not the total was sixty seven . |
| 29 | ‘ Counting the number of times he says ‘ Caroline this ’ , or ‘ Caroline that ’ … ’ |
| 30 | Quiss had found himself there first , and after a little while , when he realised that there was no night and day , just the one flat , monotone light always there beyond the windows , he had started to keep a tally of the number of times he slept . |