Example sentences of "a [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | After arriving in office as Taoiseach for a second time in 1983 , he proceeded to collect opinions on such issues from various quarters . |
| 2 | It is a frightening experience , and I have never heard of anyone doing it a second time . |
| 3 | Later that afternoon , when she had finished her shopping and passed the shop a second time , she found the E had been changed to an A. Just as , when she informed her class of noisy fourteen-year-olds that there was to be ‘ no more of that ’ , there was no more . |
| 4 | The peasant then walks past the corpse for a second time and emerges to ask the same question . |
| 5 | Sir Derek Alun-Jones , Ferranti 's chairman , is expected to postpone the annual meeting for a second time so that revised accounts can be prepared to include the effect of the £185m International Signal and Control fraud . |
| 6 | A clip round the ear has more chance of preventing him from doing something a second time than bringing all these other agencies in . |
| 7 | The Liberal party disintegrated a second time . |
| 8 | They embraced Rose a second time and everybody shook hands . |
| 9 | Oh , and a second time to tell me how pleased he was . ’ |
| 10 | However , the Communists , who emerged for a second time as power broker despite their loss of seven seats in parliament , has made it clear that they will not collaborate with the Pasok leader whom they indicted for alleged wrongdoing during the interim left-right coalition government of Mr Tzannis Tzannetakis . |
| 11 | The question is : can they get it to work a second time ? |
| 12 | Steve Foley has become Colchester 's caretaker-manager for a second time , Jock Wallace having been appointed a director last week — ‘ I will do all in my power to help the club , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The first female is then shot a second time , and as the confused baby attempts to suckle from its dying mother , it too is despatched with a single bullet . ’ |
| 14 | Each night during a 6-month working season , 40,000–60,000 km ( about 30,000–45,000 miles ) of drift-net is set in the North Pacific Ocean - enough to encircle the planet and cross the Pacific for a second time . |
| 15 | American Telephone and Telegraph extended its $6.1 billion bid for NCR , an American computer maker , for a second time , to April 30th . |
| 16 | America is one of the few countries that , in effect , taxes corporate income twice : once as corporation tax , and a second time as personal-income tax , when the income is paid out as dividends . |
| 17 | England duly subsided a second time , the honours going to Downton who was promoted to open in place of Andy Lloyd and made a solid 56 , but wickets fell steadily and 235 all out meant that the victory margin was an innings and 180 runs . |
| 18 | His signing to fight Larry Holmes , after retiring a second time , provoked worried comment . |
| 19 | But I could make no sort of impression upon him … when I visited him a second time , the fear of death was gone , and with it all solicitude about religion . ’ |
| 20 | He was diverted during coffee by a thumb nail sketch of that fruitless expedition , but by the time the sommelier had visited the table with Cognac a second time , he was back to the great danger of ennui in the BEF , and 2nd Grenadiers ’ seven months in France spent cultivating a defensive mentality which could well be disastrous if hostilities ever broke out . |
| 21 | A second time God has to intervene . |
| 22 | The angel of God ( at this stage in Israelite writing just another way of referring to God himself calls ) a second time : ‘ By myself I have sworn … because you have done this , and have not withheld your son , your only son , I will indeed bless you , and I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore . |
| 23 | But now , after he has commanded Abraham to leave everything behind a second time , he waits until Abraham has passed the test . |
| 24 | Making sense of God for a second time |
| 25 | He had to show the print a second time to censorship boards to convince them they had imagined the nudity . |
| 26 | Mungo predicted that if he ignored her a second time , she would go away . |
| 27 | He was downstairs before she could call his name a second time . |
| 28 | She stopped singing when he knocked on the door , but he had to wait and knock a second time before she invited him in . |
| 29 | Josh Gifford wheeled Honey End round , took him back a few paces and put him at the fence a second time . |
| 30 | The remainder of the finishers were either remounted or put to the fence a second time . |