Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their syllabus should include , on a reading list that would hopefully keep them indoors for a long time , the extensive article published in Mountain dealing with the affair . |
| 2 | Remember that , as with tools for any kind of job , there are good tools and not-so-good tools and if you buy poor quality tools , they may let you down at a vital time . |
| 3 | I 'm sorry , Ellie ; I let you in for a hard time , did n't I ? ’ |
| 4 | Yes , yes , he was a poor little sole all the way through was n't , but , erm , she does n't sort of tell you much about the good times at the end |
| 5 | Is Lucy giving you more of a hard time ? |
| 6 | To our disbelief it was really very much more abundant than we could ever have thought possible , so we 've actually been able to find molecules with eleven carbon atoms in a chain , floating around in space , and for which we really at the present time have no explanation . |
| 7 | She knew only , as they made their slow way along the beach back to the town , that she felt exhausted but peaceful , even momentarily carefree , as if she had shed burdens that had been weighing her down for a long time . |
| 8 | ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’ |
| 9 | He watched her closely for a long time but there was no further flicker of consciousness . |
| 10 | He studied her minutely for a long time until she felt his eyes had bored into her very skull . |
| 11 | You often find that erm television with sex and everything , they always put it on after a certain time for children go to bed . |
| 12 | According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 755 ) Beornred succeeded to the kingdom on the death of Aethelbald but held it only for a short time and unhappily . |
| 13 | The relative value of doing so measured against the cost of the associated hard and software , however , rules it out for the present time at least . |
| 14 | Overall the computational complexity of the system rules it out at the present time for application to the recognition task . |
| 15 | Now bring it back to the modern time of the five day week , what is two fifths , or what are two fifths of the wage ? |
| 16 | Three times in a row he has been champion jockey but his achievement in 1992 , re-wrote the record books and wo n't be equalled by anyone else for a long time to come , if ever . |
| 17 | Yep … thanks Chappie … you helped pull us back into the big time and gave us a lot of enjoyment ( even when you fell over when trying to control the ball : - ) . |