Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is cautious about all the hype that has surrounded Alpha from the time of announcement and warns that too much is being promised by a chip that was designed in the first instance to provide a Unix migration path for VAX users . |
| 2 | Instead he was back in Sheffield Shield ranks looking to recover form by the time the fifth Test had begun . |
| 3 | Knitting was a painful business for me , but it was absorbing , and I 'd lost track of the time when I heard crashing footsteps approaching and a determined bang on the door . |
| 4 | Museums also helped to focus attention on the time dimension in natural history by displaying spectacular collections of fossils . |
| 5 | I might as well have grown asparagus in the time . ’ ’ |
| 6 | She 's had help now , but what a pity , you know , then I guess people were n't so aware of what could be done , but what a pity she could n't have had help at the time . |
| 7 | Although just over half of a sample of teenage mothers in 1979 — 80 had had some kind of family planning lesson at school , only a quarter had attempted to use contraception around the time they conceived . |
| 8 | If all these subjects had had endometriosis at the time of removal the rate in current and recent users would rise to 0.42 per 1000 woman years ( from 0.22 ) and the relative risk would be non-significant at 0.7 ( from 0.4 ) . |
| 9 | The victim had become owner at the time of the deception . |
| 10 | The 67 children who had reached maturity at the time of this study tended to have been diagnosed earlier in the decade than those still growing . |
| 11 | Despite the high prevalence of growth impairment , the subset of childen who had reached maturity by the time of the study ( n=67 ) nevertheless maintained their height centile . |
| 12 | This report is about 174 children ≤4 years of age with idiopathic chronic constipation who were 6 years and older and had entered school at the time of follow up in May 1991 . |
| 13 | On Feb. 20 , 1990 , the MRG and the Association of Democrats ( Association des démocrates — a heterogeneous grouping of leading centrist personalities from which the left sought to gain support at the time of the 1988 presidential elections ) announced the conclusion of an agreement aiming to develop " the second force within the presidential majority " . |
| 14 | A recent survey of church youth groups shows that 1 in 4 have had sex by the time they are eighteen years old , 1 in 10 under the age of sixteen . |
| 15 | ‘ — that she 's got amnesia about the time when she nearly drowned , ’ Edward said . |
| 16 | Boys develop within a a similar age range of about five years , but most have reached puberty by the time they are sixteen . |
| 17 | I know that Jim Miller 's parents have hired protection for the time being , until they decide they 're safe from reprisals . |