Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of time [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How did you tell a man who had just expressed his undying love for you and his need to remain in your arms for ever and ever that he was separated from you by a distance of fifty years , and that only by some perverse and cruel trick of time had you been allowed to meet at all ? |
| 2 | Jump on condition " never " is an instruction whose operation phase does nothing ( but presumably takes some fixed length of time to do it ) . |
| 3 | ‘ It used to , but working with Dave over that period of time means we 've mostly solved the problems . |
| 4 | Helping an elderly parent through her sorrow can be a long , hard haul , but very rewarding in the end — not only in terms of her recovery , but also because , if you find yourself in the same position in later years , you will look back on this experience you shared with her and find that it has left you with a far deeper understanding of grief , and a greater confidence in the healing power of time to see you through your own period of adjustment to loss . |
| 5 | Some people probably think I take too long to decide such matters , but I can demonstrate to them that sometimes by giving people a reasonable length of time to adjust they come through with flying colours . |
| 6 | This may not prove to be a serious problem , but having it happen twice in a short period of time makes me wonder . |
| 7 | I became obsessed with the whole idea and spent an enormous amount of time researching it . |
| 8 | Devon Malcolm was not sparing himself on a pitch which was offering help to all the bowlers but Waugh seemed to have a ridiculous amount of time to ease him through the leg field twice in an over for two of his 10 boundaries . |
| 9 | We usually have a fair bit of time to do it . |
| 10 | Her new sense of time told her that a scant three minutes had passed since landing . |