Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 UNEMPLOYMENT in Britain has fallen for the first time in almost three years .
2 But if the average size of a household has fallen at the same time ( this has happened in the UK ) then the income of each person in a household may have risen .
3 The chief executive may know what change is needed , but has to wait for the right time to introduce it .
4 In a wide ranging and at times overtly anti-communist speech , described by the Guardian of March 30 as " more measured and specific than any he has given for a long time " , Yeltsin pilloried central government policy , labelling perestroika the " last phase of the stagnation period " .
5 So that the training is not unduly prolonged the deans suggest that the undergraduate course could be shortened to compensate for the extra time spent as a house officer .
6 Two months after the military crackdown in Beijing in June 1989 , it was announced that university student intake would be cut from 640,000 to 610,000 in the next academic year , and that " specialities mainly in the social science fields which the State has deemed for a long time to have turned out personnel not qualified for socialist construction " would be suspended .
7 CAR crime on Merseyside has dropped for the first time in three years but the rate is still one offence every 20 minutes .
8 CAR crime on Merseyside has dropped for the first time in three years but there is still one offence every 20 minutes .
9 Creaney , who now forms a new strike partnership with Andy Payton , and has nudged his boyhood idol Charlie Nicholas into reserve football , feels the Cologne tie has come at the right time .
10 ‘ This validation from the Prime Minister has come at an important time for the industry as it strives to get up off its knees , ’ said Keith Banbury , Chief Executive .
11 One society which has featured for the first time in this year 's results is the Standard building society .
12 My mum has a passion fruit plant and it has grown for the first time .
13 Nobody stops learning , but at only 15st I 'm the fastest heavyweight the world has seen in a long time . ’
14 The Chinese government has said for the first time that it intends to try to stop the tiger trade .
15 Material collected in south-east Ecuador has revealed for the first time Triassic marine sediments with bivalves , as well as Jurassic microfloras and Cretaceous macrofaunas .
16 An S-A-S officer who led a mission to prevent the Gulf conflict spreading throughout the Middle East has revealed for the first time what happened behind enemy lines .
17 Palace striker Chris Armstrong has confessed for the first time that manager Steve Coppell took a huge gamble signing him .
18 FIFTIES star Connie Francis has confessed for the first time that she does not like her biggest hits .
19 Its psychogenic origin was reaffirmed with the descriptions of Ryle , Sheldon , Berkman , and Venables in the 1930s , a point of view that has predominated to the present time .
20 Any object that an individual has had for a long time , a favourite book for example , has already been affected by that individual 's electrical impulses .
21 If a neutral event has occurred within a certain time of an already important event , if it was of a certain category and if another of the same category had not been interposed between it and the important event , then that event itself acquires significance for the animal .
22 If you use windows it is worth putting applications that you might need to use at the same time on different drives .
23 I am saying that , as an organisation , it can not cope with the work it has to do at the present time .
24 ( There is presumably no reason IBM ca n't , like the services , make new offers to those it particularly wants to keep after the first time . )
25 ‘ Jason Donovan has known for a long time that The Face is not rich , and we have repeatedly offered to apologise unreservedly for the article , ’ the statement added .
26 ‘ Jason Donovan has known for a long time that The Face is not rich , and we have repeatedly offered to apologise unreservedly for the article , ’ the statement added .
27 The art ( therapy ? ) of Reflexology is founded on the principle that massaging the feet can affect the health of other parts of the body , a fact which acupuncture has known for a long time .
28 But Newton , known in the dressing room as ‘ Isaac ’ , still has to pinch himself to be sure he really has arrived in the big time .
29 An analysis of soil samples from a Kurdish village has proved for the first time that in 1988 Iraqi armed forces used nerve gas as well as mustard gas in air raids against civilians .
30 BEVERLY Hills 90210 heart-throb Luke Perry has spoken for the first time of his nightmare childhood with a drunken father who beat up his mother .
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