Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Am I sufficiently interested in my question or topic to keep me interested over the necessary time period ? |
| 2 | It is a universal characteristic of higher animals that they senesce ; that is , the likelihood of their dying in a given time interval , say a year , increases as they grow older , and often fecundity declines . |
| 3 | It was Barbara Castle who remarked , when Mrs Thatcher became leader of the Conservatives in 1975 , that power had made her pretty for the first time . |
| 4 | I thought we were lovers ! she wanted to scream , but she swallowed her hurt for the thousandth time and forced a smile . |
| 5 | He 'd done something dishonest for the first time in his business life , and it sat uneasily on his conscience . |
| 6 | Does this mean therefore that RMI has to be a massive concentrated effort to bring everything on-stream at the same time ? |
| 7 | A good horse trainer teaches a horse good habits so that it does what he wants it to do automatically , without it learning any undesirable behaviour or bad habits in the process ; but a poor trainer often finds that his horses learn something unwanted at the same time . |
| 8 | ‘ The apparel industry has been searching for something new for a long time and this is something which will be exciting . |
| 9 | It was despairing and made him uneasy for a long time afterwards . |
| 10 | You ca n't and keep them open at the same time . |
| 11 | This alternative process made it possible for the first time to obtain 1- tert -alkyl , 1-cycloalkyl , 1-aryl , 1-heteroaryl and 1-aminoquinolone and azaquinolonecarboxylic acid derivatives by combined acylation and arylation ( aracylation ) of enamines and enhydrazines with o -halo-(het)aroyl halides . |
| 12 | The course of events after 1931 clearly revealed the inadequacy of pure aspiration as the basis for a science of international politics , and made it possible for the first time to embark on serious critical and analytical thought about international problems . |
| 13 | Sufficient data stretching back to the mid-sixteenth century have now been assembled to make it possible for the first time to study short-term as well as long-term characteristics of demographic behaviour at the micro level . |
| 14 | The key point was that the bases paired , making it possible for the first time to seem how a chemical entity might be able to store and copy information . |
| 15 | Once again , now it does n't matter which way round you start , you can start left over right or right over left , but the second time you do it opposite to the first time , so the first time I put the left one over first and the right one over that and then tuck it through , just like tying a shoe lace really , okay ? |
| 16 | ‘ British publishers have had it good for a long time . |
| 17 | THAT AWFUL MOMENT WHEN YOU HAVE TO GET IT DIRTY FOR THE FIRST TIME |
| 18 | The Moghul tombs , the Red Fort , the towering minarets of the Jami Masjid , made me aware for the first time of the significance of civilization , and the meaning of history . |