Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] in [adj] time [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | We flew for an hour and in that time I completed a reel of film in my camera . |
2 | Actually , we were probably more technical than we are now , 'cos we had a year 's break between the two bands and in that time we lost all our talent , so we had to start again . |
3 | JOAN Bassett has been the conductor of the Hadley Court Singers for over eight years and in that time she has welded this group of 45 singers based at Haddington into a flexible corporate whole motivated at all times by her own perceptive musicianship . |
4 | But he has been the Labour Party 's chosen candidate for almost two years and in that time he has worked hard to build up a high profile , assiduously interpreting official figures on unemployment , training and hospital waiting lists as well as taking on directors of newly-privatised monopolies . |
5 | Tritsch Tratsch lasts only about three minutes but in that time it does not waste a second . |
6 | It is nineteen months since Richard Ryder was appointed Government Chief Whip and in that time he has risen to become John Major 's right-hand man . |
7 | ‘ Career breaks would enable women to choose to take five , six or seven years out to have their families but in that time they would be kept in touch , ’ said Miss Armstrong . |
8 | It 's been two years in the studio but in that time we 've probably only spent four months recording . ’ |
9 | The origins of Osiris are shrouded in mystery but in early times he was a fertility god , whose death and rebirth were connected with the cycle of the agricultural year . |
10 | But in between these new feelings there was a gap of nearly a year and in that time something so terrible had happened . |
11 | I was with him constantly for a whole year and in that time I never saw him with anyone , man or woman . |
12 | On the other hand , the mere fact that in that time she has overtaken it most one of some 20 countries that outranked her in per capita terms is enough to establish that her record is less than spectacular . |
13 | Now of course I 'm not supposed to admit to these things , being a professional , bo b before I do admit it them as I am going to I have to say that er on an average year er year we do about one thousand five hundred jobs and in that time there will probably be about three or four claimable accidents that we 'll have . |