Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [art] time it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Light goes maybe 30 metres in the time it takes sound to travel the 0.2mm thickness of the emulsion . |
| 2 | Nearly twenty thousand dogs have entered the one hundred and first Crufts Show , which is expected to pull in a hundred thousand vistors by the time it closes on Sunday . |
| 3 | The emergency services say it could cut vital minutes from the time it takes to respond to a call . |
| 4 | Since lexicographers can only proof single entries at a time it is not envisaged that providing this space will cause a problem . |
| 5 | On screen , the locations certainly seem rough enough to give the impression that much of the filming must have been genuinely unpleasant , and the physical and emotional demands of the film , shot in high temperatures , led Dustin to lose twenty pounds by the time it was completed . |
| 6 | The engine was reputed to have done 99,000 miles by the time it was extracted from the old Herald in 1988 , but Tony is sceptical . |