Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of time [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this period of time he made the mistake of threatening the archdeacon , Cautinus , who fled to the court of king Theudebald , announced the death of Gallus , and was himself consecrated bishop on the king 's orders . |
| 2 | The overall effect is visually complicated and inelegant , and could only be explained by recourse to arcane ritual references , which at this distance of time we have little hope of tracing . |
| 3 | When you start to discover this one actually does travel through walls , the sound of it does actually does travel through walls , but as I say , it 's only a temporary measure to buy yourself a little bit of time she says . |
| 4 | In that brief fragment of time he smiled down at me . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , in that brief space of time I turned up the flame . |
| 6 | He , too , seemed visibly affected by the brief amount of time he had been able to spend with his brother . |
| 7 | And now that I thought about it , I had vaguely wondered at the ‘ good time ’ I had made on my walk from the cottage , and at the leisurely stretch of time I had had on the island . |
| 8 | For quite long periods of time it went away and he forgot it . |
| 9 | Therefore property passed to him when after a reasonable length of time he had failed to object . |
| 10 | Within a short period of time I had learnt how to help myself ; the pain gradually began to abate spontaneously , a great relief after nearly three years of constant discomfort . |
| 11 | At least for the short period of time he expected the combat to last . |
| 12 | The only sensible response to this , Neil decided ruefully , was to keep hold of the cane , and continue to threaten the bully with it , and for a very short space of time they circled around one another — neither man , it soon became plain , really wishing to do more than threaten . |
| 13 | ‘ In that relatively short space of time we have established ourselves as a vital source of providing banking services to local people . |
| 14 | That was until Ronnie McFall came to Shamrock Park and in a short space of time we have won the League two years on the trot , runner-up last season and challenging strongly again this season . |
| 15 | In the short space of time it took him to walk across the room arm-in-arm with Mme de Ratho , he thought he saw … . |
| 16 | Very short space of time it 's gone quite a distance . |
| 17 | Q , W , E , R become C , D , E , F and S , D , F become G , A and B. Slightly awkward to start with but within a very short space of time you perform these operation without looking . |
| 18 | In April 1962 he wrote ‘ Blowin' in the Wind ’ , and within a short space of time he had been adopted as the spokesman of the civil-rights movement . |
| 19 | In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries . |
| 20 | ‘ So within a short space of time she lost her baby and permanently lost her ability to have another baby with serious and lasting consequences to her health and eventually fatal consequences for her marriage . ’ |
| 21 | The includers are not always merely disinterested advocates of a philosophy , but people who have become so through experience , through the sheer amount of time they spend with members of the excluded social group . |
| 22 | ‘ Is that the normal length of time he goes for ? ’ |
| 23 | The thing with th , with getting there at two for the gate right , because you can go in and get seats , for that amount of time you want a seat . |
| 24 | In the same space of time she had married , embarked on a new and totally alien job , had a baby , celebrated her twenty-first birthday , and then had a second child — all momentous events in anyone 's life , without the other pressures she was having to cope with . |
| 25 | Most have bodies with a skin so soft , thin and permeable that if they are exposed to direct sunshine for any length of time they dry out and die . |
| 26 | Before you leave your desk for any length of time you load Back Soon which gives you a choice of messages to display . |
| 27 | When you have used a certain rod for any length of time you become accustomed to its ‘ feel ’ . |
| 28 | The City took a dim view of what it regarded as the inordinate amount of time it took for the group to return a profit there . |