Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small firm needling the big multinational may be only a nuisance for the time being , but if it latches on to a new and successful technology and makes all the right first-mover investments it may be tomorrow 's market leader . |
| 2 | Conservative Members have had only a fraction of the time in this debate . |
| 3 | That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one . |
| 4 | But I could just not get to sleep that night , and she was only a baby at the time , she could n't sleep . |
| 5 | He did it carefully at first , only a handful at a time , saving every shilling made . |
| 6 | He was in the Navy and away a lot of the time . |
| 7 | Naturally , Reynard started there , drew the first blank , which did n't disconcert him ( he would have been disappointed by an easy discovery anyway ) and composed himself to delve deeper , perhaps taking it backwards a month at a time , beginning with Malamute 's employment with Club Eleusis . |
| 8 | To escape from such a condition it must first be recognized and then a strategy to move backwards a step at a time until a new route is found must be followed . |
| 9 | The way you manage to cope with all the problems that life with an elderly parent may present will depend not only upon their magnitude , or the help you receive from others , but also on your attitude towards them , and your determination to live life just a day at a time , thus breaking your stress up into smaller and more manageable ‘ sections ’ . |
| 10 | Unemployment or short-term employment immediately after graduation is largely a reflection of the time that graduates take to find the right openings . |
| 11 | You can only apply if money is not an issue at the time of the divorce . |
| 12 | She seemed to accept without question that Alexandra was the one who would handle the crisis , if it was still a crisis by the time she got into the office . |
| 13 | She had no time to dwell on the matter , however , because , ever a man with no time for prevarication , he replied , ‘ Not trying to trip you up at all , ’ then grated bluntly , ‘ More trying to discover just how many ‘ close ’ men friends you do have . ’ |
| 14 | right a lot of the time . |
| 15 | Well not all the time , nobody 's right all the time , but she is a right she is right a lot of the time Jonathan because some of them children misbehave |
| 16 | They devoted the second half to a work written by a composer who was also a student at the time of its creation , Josef Suk . |
| 17 | That nearly a quarter of the time observed these clients had no staff present is surprising and should cause managers to re-examine ward organization and staff morale . |
| 18 | But I think you have to remember that a at one time the monarchy were very unpopular , you know er , cre , during the time of Queen Victoria they were very unpopular and there was I suppose , nearly a republic at the time , and in fact , the monarchy do have to make themselves popular . |
| 19 | These avenues have not only taken up a lot of the time and energy of the present generation of activists but they have also reduced the reliance on the politics of the street demonstration by presenting alternative means of expression and action . |
| 20 | ‘ Housing problems take up a lot of the time in prison , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Guthlac himself was of distinguished Mercian stock and a descendant of the Iclingas , the Mercian royal dynasty ( Vita Guthlaci , chs 1 , 2 ) , and formerly an exile in the time of Ceolred 's father , Aethelred , among the Britons ( Vita Guthlaci , ch. 34 ) . |
| 22 | What I 'll do , I 'll pass you the box and then you can take them out a bit at a time cos I 've sorted them . |
| 23 | No , you pull it out a bit at a time , not just |
| 24 | I 'll have dried out a bit by the time I get to the cottage , and I do n't really want to go all the way back to the farm after I 've come this far . ’ |
| 25 | Should eat them about a quarter at a time . |
| 26 | The next stage as soon as you find time is to sit down with your language helper and play the text back a phrase at a time in order to transcribe it . |
| 27 | The next day , Christmas Day , I could not do anything , just sat around a lot of the time , lost in my own thoughts . |
| 28 | There were a lot of mad parties — I 'd be invited to quite a few of them , and people were walking around a lot of the time saying : ‘ Hey man , I 'm an orange … . ’ |
| 29 | This elegant 7,515 foot volcano , according to geologists was n't even a hummock at the time the Romans were building their roads and walls in Britain . |
| 30 | And there is surely a limit to the time which this historic opportunity can endure . |