Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the time " in BNC.

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1 The railway 's team crane , which was part of a demonstration goods train at the time , turned from game-keeper to poacher as it became derailed and had to be rescued by another crane .
2 So if you 're going to plan ahead , now , which I think is the only thing you can do in the circumstances … what I suggest is a with-profits endowment policy linked to a seven-year maturity date with yearly incrementals — optional , if you like , or you can build them in , it depends how optimistic you are about your career , ha ha — leaving a little bit of the schools fees to pay at the time , but there will be a big chunk taken out , that 's for sure … and do it off monthly standing orders of around … let's say … five hundred a month ?
3 Because of the results of blood tests taken at the time of your accident , Len . ’
4 It is difficult now for many people to grasp , let along appreciate , the depth and strength of the feelings of loss , defeat , and outrage which mining communities felt at the time .
5 Of the five multi-agency enumeration surveys conducted by the time the Wirral research was completed , two were in northern communities ( Greater Glasgow and South Tyneside ) and three in southern communities ( within Avon , London and Sussex ) .
6 Gordon 's interest in vintage cars began during the time he was a traffic division police officer .
7 It is very heartening now to witness some of the excellent combat shots taken at the time — Eighth Air Force bombers being escorted to places as far afield as Berlin with a mass of Packard Merlin-engined Mustangs indulging in a leapfrog technique which meant fighter waves could follow the bombers , fight and be relieved by another escort wave .
8 One hundred and one transient UOS relaxations occurred around the time of 60 ( 54% ) of the 112 common cavity episodes .
9 These portions of the mantle may now be melted preferentially in relatively undiluted form , away from the present ridge , by rising plumes or hot zones because they are enriched in low-temperature melting fractions incorporated at the time of U/Pb fractionation , and because of a lower geothermal gradient in areas of old thick lithosphere where the peridotite solidus is at greater depth .
10 I choose first names , which at first sight seem to be completely uninteresting , except insofar as one anxiously awaits the frequency counts published in The Times each year to see whether one 's name is still ‘ in ’ .
11 There was no significant difference between PSC and control groups in the frequency of blood groups ( O , 45% v 37% ; A , 54% v 51% ) or in liver function tests undertaken at the time of liver biopsy .
12 These findings also have important implications for the analysis of prolonged motility recordings in patients with non-cardiac chest pain : repetitive simultaneous pressure waves occurring at the time of an attack of chest pain , do not necessarily indicate that the pain was accompanied by disorders of oesophageal motility , or that such disorders were the cause of the chest pain .
13 In spite of the war , trolleybus conversions continued for the time being in other parts of London , but did not affect the Croydon area directly .
14 A combination of two vowel sounds merged into the time space of a single long vowel ( monophthong ) .
15 This indicates that the causal agent of the systemic response has exited the wound site within 5 minutes and contrasts with studies on older plants in which systemic pin levels increased as the time from wounding to excision increased until 120 minutes after wounding .
16 The initial treatment intervals start from the time of completion of the initial recanalisation , whether this took one or more treatments .
17 the number of virtual memory segments addressed during the time the processor is available to it
18 Russian press reports said at the time the CIS vessel suffered damage to its sail , periscope and bridge .
19 Two boys searched for family jewels lost at the time of the Armada .
20 The municipal coat of arms and fleet numbers remained for the time being .
21 His eldest son — also John Sich — was a Lieutenant in the Corps of Chiswick Volunteers formed at the time of the threatened invasion of England by the forces of Napoleon .
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