Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each target is attempted five times in Figure 4.10 within a specific time period , usually a week . |
| 2 | Even if the proved debt did not include the right to interest , interest can be claimed , up to the date of the bankruptcy order in the following cases : ( i ) in respect of a debt due by virtue of a written instrument payable at a certain time , interest may be claimed from that time ( r 6.113(2) ) at judgment rate ( r 6.113(4) ) ; ( ii ) otherwise , after demand for repayment has been made stating that interest will thereafter be charged ( r 6.113(3) ) then at the rate specified in the notice provided that it does not exceed judgment rate and is only from the date of the demand ( r 6.113(4) ) . |
| 3 | But it was obviously impossible to deal with a nation-wide emergency such as lorry-drivers ' strikes , and equally impossible to respond properly to a rash of major disputes all at the same time . |
| 4 | You can have them coming out of both earholes , each nostril and his mouth all at the same time ! |
| 5 | Britain 's current-account deficit shrank to £192m ( $377m ) in February ; the 12-month visible-trade deficit fell below $30 billion for the first time since mid-1988 . |
| 6 | Overall turnover rose 8.3 per cent in the 53 weeks to 2 January to top £1 billion for the first time . |
| 7 | Pre-tax profits soared from £21.4 million to almost £32 million and the company joined Iceland Frozen Foods yesterday in announcing turnover that topped £1 billion for the first time , jumping from £920 million to £1.05 billion . |
| 8 | prior to June 1956 the Squadron had never managed to get their four aircraft airborne at the same time . |
| 9 | Getting your supporters enthusiastic at the right time requires strategy and planning and that is a political weakness in the UK . |
| 10 | The May meeting will be on Wednesday 26 May 1993 at the same time in Glasgow Polytechnic . |
| 11 | Falcon will send children to Florida free for the first time , Martyn announced savings of up to £105 on its Greece and Cyprus brochure and SunMed is offering seven nights in Corfu for just Pounds 99 . |
| 12 | The Collective State Presidency , excluding the Slovene representative Janez Drnovsek , met on July 4 for the first time with Mesic as President [ see p. 38275 ] . |
| 13 | I 'd never seen so many shots go in so many directions all at the one time . |
| 14 | ISLANDERS in the tiny Pacific state of Palau vote in a referendum on February 6 for the seventh time on a deal with the United States which would give the US strategic military rights in the Western Pacific only 500 miles from the troubled Philippines . |
| 15 | I will never forget hearing the Leningrad Philharmonic for the first time , the incredible discipline those players had in the combination of strings and brass — it 's impossible to forget it because it 's impossible to repeat it . |
| 16 | Earlier , there had been fighting at Mannar on Aug. 1 as the LTTE attacked an advancing troop convoy ; naval artillery was used against rebel positions on Aug. 3 for the first time since the resumption of large-scale fighting on June 11 ; and a major clash took place on Aug. 4-5 , involving the repulsing of an unsuccessful rebel attack against the Jaffna fort . |
| 17 | Multiparty elections to a 23-member constituent commission were held on July 23-26 for the first time since the 1977 coup , when Sir James Mancham was overthrown by France-Albert René [ see pp. 28485-86 ] . |
| 18 | Group sales exceeded £10 billion for the first time as the Group served over ten million customers each week . |
| 19 | Membership would entail the release of detailed information on the Soviet economy , and observers saw the publication of Gosbank ( Soviet State Bank ) accounts on July 16 for the first time since 1936 as the beginnings of this . |
| 20 | Pickering have their wicket keeper Richard Gray available for the first time this season on recovering from a hand injury for the visit of Scarborough in the EYC while Whitby are unchanged for the visit of York in the same competition . |
| 21 | Savimbi returned to Luanda on Sept. 27 for the first time since the start of the 16-year civil war . |
| 22 | A ( Soviet ) DRA proposal at the Geneva talks in February 1987 for the first time made public a time frame for Soviet withdrawal , eighteen months , with no conditions attached to the process of ‘ national reconciliation ’ in Afghanistan . |
| 23 | With the prospects of breaking the stalemate fading , hopes rose following the announcement that the government and ANC representatives had held talks on July 28 for the first time since the ANC broke off contact on June 23 . |
| 24 | This clever idea allows the pit to be shut away when not in use , making it look attractive while keeping the sand clean at the same time . |
| 25 | In 1955 also the idea of a Children 's Church on Sunday mornings was first suggested ( thought it did not start till November 1960 ) and in December 1955 for the first time there was a Christmas tree in church . |
| 26 | ‘ One called upon the half-mortals , using words of such power that we were compelled to come instantly , breaking the spell-wall and leaving Andernesse undefended for the first time since the Four Cities fell . |
| 27 | 3.1 Module descriptors which have been reviewed for session 1987–88 ( eg Music Making modules ) or which are being introduced in session 1987–88 for the first time are identified in the National Catalogue by a first digit 7 . |
| 28 | The Leasehold Reform Act 1967 for the first time introduces leasehold enfranchisement , whereby a lessee is entitled to compel his lessor to sell him the freehold upon payment of compensation on a scale fixed by the Act . |
| 29 | The House will recall my Adjournment debate of 22 January 1991 following the publication in December 1990 for the first time of the annual report by Her Majesty 's inspector of constabulary , Mr. Geoffrey Dear . |
| 30 | Representatives of West Berlin , which is not a constituent part of the Federal Republic , in both the Bundestag and Bundesrat have since May 1990 for the first time had full voting rights in both bodies . |