Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [art] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All she knew was that she was cold and hungry and thirsty , that she had not slept for more than few minutes at a time and that all her thoughts were with Tristram . |
| 2 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 3 | These show a remarkable grasp of the prevalent styles of the time that were adopted by both Italian and English composers , and especially by J C Bach . |
| 4 | Add brandy a few drops at a time until pale and fluffy . |
| 5 | They were British citizens by the time that Ilya Holovich entered Kingston General Hospital for a difficult confinement . |
| 6 | The capacity rules are just part of a now long list of rules and regulations that surround university life , and make extra demands on the time and freedom of academics . |
| 7 | This pattern , when accompanied by false or varying descriptions of the time or sleep state of the patient , was considered suggestive of suffocation ( see below ) . |
| 8 | Seeing the cramped , coffin-like quarters in which fifty men had to live , eat , sleep and fight , often in appalling weather for up to six weeks at a time and knowing how marginal were their chances of survival , I could n't help but admire the resolution that had kept them fighting , their morale undimmed , until the very end . |
| 9 | I had blank sections under my topic headings on paper in which I wrote very brief notes at the time and these were expanded more fully immediately after the interviews while my memory was still fresh . |
| 10 | She told of one man who was harangued for ninety minutes at a time until he had a nervous breakdown and quit . |
| 11 | Then someone she did like , Mr. Middlemass , the Document Examiner , with his jacket slung over his shoulders , leaping up the stairs three steps at a time and calling out a greeting to the desk . |
| 12 | ‘ I would n't mind going out there for two or three months at a time but not permanently . ’ |
| 13 | the only battleship I know about is the girl friend go away for about three months at a time and you 'd say of where 's Norman , oh he 's er working and then we all knew he 's working for a he 'd put them in the computer systems right the way throughout the ships |
| 14 | You were allowed up to three visitors at a time and had to sit opposite them at individual tables . |
| 15 | Because of the difficulty of assessing software before purchase i.e. the lack of objective reviews at the time and the fact that no " on approval " facilities were available , several bad purchases were made when software was first acquired . |
| 16 | It felt an ordinary place , but my father 's friend , Billy Llewelyn , could play the saw , grow black carnations , go without sleep for three weeks at a time and expand his chest from thirty-six inches to fifty-two inches in three breaths . |
| 17 | Millions visit Czechoslovakia every year but only for two or three days at a time as services are poor . |
| 18 | What happens is , as the R N A strand goes through the the genetic code is read out three bases at a time and this is a , is a table which reproduces all the three base combinations you can have , and shows you which amino acids they code for . |
| 19 | This guy called Mark that erm tt that Frank and Janet know very well , he 's a really very good D J indeed , you know he 's , Janet 's got a tape that he 's made and he 's got , using three decks at a time and stuff , he 's very good . |
| 20 | The unique features of the time and place structured the use of discretion . |
| 21 | This would also raise important questions regarding the policies and practices of institutions with regard to : selecting students , and ensuring that the selection procedures are appropriate in identifying students with the potential for success ; ensuring that they are adequately prepared for their course of study , and providing assistance where necessary through appropriate pre-entry provision ; supporting students during the time that they are in the institution , including ensuring that approaches to teaching and learning are appropriate as well as providing the study skills and counselling support required . |
| 22 | Or perhaps , not about the right things at the time or perhaps concentrating on . |
| 23 | It was against this background of ‘ stagflation ’ that monetarism increasingly became more influential , providing as it did an alternative explanation of the economic problems of the time as well as a potential remedy . |
| 24 | Then , under hypnosis , they were regressed fourteen days to the time or the showing of the film and they were able to watch it again in their minds only — but this time , of course , they were aware of the questions in advance and so they knew what they had to look out for . |
| 25 | His lively personality won him many well-wishers at the time and those fans did n't forget him on his birthday . |
| 26 | The farmer only sets so many snares at a time and if one rabbit dies , the others will live that much longer . |
| 27 | Their very excellence makes heavy demands on the time and energy of their teaching faculty , so people who stay long in such places rarely produce the books and articles commonly published by their counterparts in bigger universities , and are therefore often little known outside their own institutions . |
| 28 | With these restrictions , anaphor resolution will consist of an alternation in which the focus process suggests one or more candidates at a time and the reasoner evaluates them , deciding whether they are plausible and , if there is more than one , which is the best . |
| 29 | He had been playing Happy Families at the time and wondering why it was that the families depicted on the cards should be so happy and his was n't . |
| 30 | and it takes about eighty records at a time because it 's using forty five letters with the |